Objects of Substance - Looking in and looking out - the Insights editions

Also included in this inaugural edition were photographs of school life from classrooms to Marrapatta to co-curricular activities to groups of students and aspects of buildings. The articles, combined with the visuals, provided a special, and idiosyncratic, portrait of a school and a school year. Later editions showcased stunning and diverse student art works; an addition Loren Bridge called “the perfect complement to the articles by staff”.

2010: The inaugural edition featured images of School life.

The publication with its distinctive square shape and tactile cover was very well received by the School community – but also more widely – as it was distributed to not only those in education but also to a more general readership, new including major donors, and stakeholders. The volumes were also gifted to visitors and guest speakers to the School. The nine editions were coloured-coded, using House colours, with Mackay white the first one. Loren Bridge also explains that the “House colours came as a playful addition. It was not something that was publicised, but a nod to the history of the School while also allowing for a creative approach to the collection”. (Bridge 2024) They make a beautiful and essentially Grammar collection to be proud of.