Library
Librarian: Miss J. Bulloch BSc (Hons), PG Dip LIS, MCLIP
Library Assistant: Miss H. Crole
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 8.30 am - 5.15 pm
The Library provides an attractive and welcoming learning environment for pupils and staff which supports all areas of the school curriculum, as well as encouraging a culture of reading for pleasure.
The library has study space or seating for approximately 60 pupils, and offers ICT facilities for staff and pupils via 21 computers and 10 laptops, which allow full network, internet and e-mail access.
Staff and pupils have their own book groups, which meet regularly during term time, and pupils provide reader reviews for the children's department of a local bookshop.
The Library houses a large variety of resources including:
- a wide range of fiction, from classic literature to contemporary novels, for all ages
- non-fiction or information resources, to support the curriculum and for general interest
- careers material, including prospectuses from all UK universities
- newspapers and magazines
- staff professional development material
In addition the Library offers access to online services, such as:
- NewsUK: a newspaper archive which allows keyword searching of many local, national and international newspapers from one search screen.
- Issues Online: a searchable archive of material relating to topical issues such as threatened species, refugees and cloning.
- New Scientist and Scientific American online archives.
On both primary and secondary sites, the library management system, Oliver, enables pupils and staff to access Library information from any computer in school, including catalogue information about resources on both sites, reliable websites gathered under appropriate subject headings and their own personal library account. This allows pupils to reserve resources, renew loans, create reviews and receive e-mail alerts when something of interest to them arrives.
- Look out for special displays to enjoy some Christmas stories and poems throughout the festive Season, or click here to have a look at our list of Christmas stories all of which are available from the Library.
The Library Blog will keep you posted with up-to-date news!
Our Delicious Social Bookmarking page will help you find useful websites related to books and reading.
The Library has fine windows by John K Clark, Glasspainter. Read more about the windows here.