Library
At the beginning of the 2022-2023 academic year, our sixth form and main school libraries merged and moved into a new home in our great new school building. The new library holds a wide range of fiction and non-fiction books magazines, and other resources, with suitable level material available for all ages.
Our Librarian manages the library collection and is available throughout the day for students to ask for advice on finding resources.
Opening Times
Monday - Thursday
8.15am - 4.45pm
Friday
8.15am - 3.45pm
Library Web App
Our school library management system is called Accessit. As well as allowing library staff and teachers to promote lots of great resources via dashboards and our great library collection via our online catalogue, staff and students can also access their own library records to check when their books are due back and renew them if they need to. They can also add interests to receive notifications when books they might like are added to the catalogue. There are an increasing number of external online resources that the students can access via the web app.
The Accessit web app is available online, on any computer – simply visit the web address: https://uk.accessit.online/thw09
Students can also download a phone app – for more information, please contact the library.
Around the World in 80 Books
Mr Waters was incredibly proud to initiate the Around the World in 80 Books challenge here in the library and he curated an amazing selection of gripping tales from every part of the world to engage our readers. This month, four students are excited to have been the first to complete their passports – with fourteen stamps, for which they will be gifted the prize of a new fiction book of their choice. Many congratulations – we have included a review of their favourites so far.
I am sure this fantastic legacy will live on in the library for years to come. If you want to be involved, please ask at the desk for a passport and get reading. From Borneo to Boston, or Peru to Pretoria, who knows where you will end up travelling?
Fiction Books
Our fiction books are grouped into collections:
Accelerated Reader fiction (Key Stages 3 & 4),
Accelerated Reader quick reads (Key Stages 3 & 4),
Fiction without Accelerated Reader quizzes (Key Stages 3 & 4),
Short story anthologies,
Sixth Form Fiction (Key Stage 5 and staff).
Fiction books are loaned out for 3 weeks at a time, with an option to renew.
Non-fiction Books
Our non -fiction books for all key stages are grouped together in subject order, using the Dewey Decimal system. Fiction books are loaned out for 3 weeks at a time, with an option to renew.
Journals
We subscribe to a range of newspapers and magazines which are all available to borrow (for seven days). We currently subscribe to:
BBC History, BBC Science Focus, BBC Wildlife, First News, FourFourTwo, Geographical, How it Works, iNewspaper, National Geographic, National Geographic Kids, National Geographic Traveller, Positive News, Royal Academy of Arts Magazine, The Economist, The Week, Total Film, and Uncut.
Of particular interest to A-Level students, we also subscribe to:
Biological Sciences Review, Chemistry Review, Geography Review, Law Review, Modern History Review, RS Review, P.E. Review, Physics Review, Politics Review, Sociology Review, Media Magazine, and English Magazine.
Computers
There are 13 PCs available at all times, plus we have a class set of Windows netbooks for use during lessons.