This March we celebrated the 25th anniversary of World Book Day. The Library ran various competitions including finding and identifying members of staff dressed up as book characters.  Among other characters we had Gangster Granny characters, Katniss Everdeen and one of the Three Musketeers! In the library...

How good are you at solving clues? This week some of our students from years 7 and 8 were invited to take part in our Diary of a Wimpy Kid themed Summer Escape Challenge. To be invited to take part students had to either...

This week in the library we have run Christmas Wand Making Workshops for year 7 and 8 students. To be invited to the event year 7 students had to score 100% in three Accelerated Reader Quizzes and year 8 students had to complete excellent work in...

  Congratulations to all our winners in the English Department's 500 word 2020 story writing competition.  The judges very much enjoyed reading all the creative entries and it was a tough choice to choose our winners!  Top prizes were £10 and £5 vouchers. You can hear...

Congratulations to our School Library Summer Reading Challenge Winners! Students completed a booklet of reading activities during the summer holiday which included reading recipes, reading with a torch, designing a new book cover and reading outside. First Prize was an Amazon Fire tablet and runners up...

The Library has been celebrating World Book Day all week. On Monday and Tuesday we ran our Escape Room "Escape from the Bunker".  All students in years 7 and 8 who had reached their accelerated reader target this term were invited to take part.  The library...

Autumn is well and truly underway in the library this term.  We have several new displays of books for you to borrow: Charming, Cosy, Adventurous and Amusing tales for Autumn evening Who knew we had so many orange books in the library! There is a fabulous mix...

Our Accelerated Reader Target Achievers this term were rewarded with The Greatest Showman themed party yesterday to celebrate their success. They watched the film, ate hot dogs and freshly cooked popcorn, along with lots of treats. There were also magic tricks and a selection of...

We had the huge pleasure of taking a group of our year 7 and 8 students to Waterstones book store last week to give presentations on four of the  books that had been nominated for this year's prestigious Carnegie Award.  Our students had met with a...

The CILIP Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals are the UK's oldest and most prestigious children's book awards, recognising outstanding writing and illustration in books for children and young people. The CILIP Carnegie Medal is awarded every year by children's librarians for an outstanding book written in...