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...
We are running an Advent Quiz on our Library Instagram page during December this year, but for the benefit of those who don't use Instagram we'll post the quiz on our blog as well. All you have to do is work out the correct answer for...
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...
We had a fabulous Harry Potter themed Christmas party for all our Accelerated Reader target achievers in years 7 and 8. Our Student librarians helped us to set up the feast and we had about 80 students attend. Our first Millionaire Word reader of the year, Ryan,...
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...
We celebrated World Book Day on Thursday 7th March and this year’s theme, due to popular demand, was Harry Potter. The library was magically transformed into Hogwarts to celebrate year 7 and 8 students who have achieved their Accelerated Reader target and some students for being...
We've created a new interactive chalkboard display in the library. As we're hosting lots of Harry Potter themed activities this term we thought we'd start our displays with a daily "Would You Rather" question. So far we've had "Would you rather take a Potions class...