Friday, 29 November 2019

Children's Laureate Cressida Cowell on school Libraries

The amazing Cressida Cowell, author of the How to Train your Dragon series (also made into three award winning films), and Children's Laureate, has responded to a survey by Great School Libraries

She said:
“From a personal point of view, I know from visiting schools around the country for over twenty years, that schools with both a library and librarian have a huge advantage over those that do not."
“Libraries and reading for pleasure support learning in every subject by encouraging intelligence, creativity and empathy, and librarians are highly skilled at the complicated process of getting the right books into the hand of the right child at the right time.”

How fantastic that The Ravensbourne School recognises this and values reading so much that we have two wonderful Libraries for our students and staff to use, run by two fully qualified and experienced Librarians.

Monday, 25 November 2019

Take a Risk is back for 2019!

The Library’s ‘Take a Risk’ competition is back for Christmas by popular demand! 


To take part, all you need to do is borrow a mystery ‘Take A Risk Book’fill in the short questionnaire and you will automatically win a prize, and have your name entered into a free prize draw with the chance to win more prizes. PLUS there are spot prizes to be won!!!





See a Librarian in the Discovery Library for details.

Everyone's a winner!




Wednesday, 20 November 2019

Diary of a Wimpy Kid author in Bromley!!!

Jeff Kinney




Such exciting news ..... the author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series will be a Waterstones Bromley on the 21st of November to sign copies of his latest book, Wrecking Ball.  



Friday, 15 November 2019

Remembrance 2019


Our Remembrance book display in the War Memorial Library

This week saw Remembrance Day, on Monday the 11th of November, when we mark the official ending of the WWI on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, Armistice Day.

All of our students attended Remembrance assemblies organized by our History department, and on the 11th of the 11th at 11 am the school observed a one minute silence.  


Students sold poppies and other products on behalf of the Royal British Legion.


This time of year is particularly important to us at The Ravensbourne School as we remember those men and boys who taught or studied in our school and gave their lives in World War One and World War Two, whose names are on our War Memorial, in the War Memorial Library.




Friday, 8 November 2019

Anti-Bullying week

The 11th - 15th of November 2019 is Anti-Bullying Week, when students and staff in schools across England focus on bullying and how we can prevent it happening.  This year the theme is "Change Starts With Us".


Here at The Ravensbourne School we are going to take part in Odd Socks Day.



Because we know this is an important subject, both of our Libraries hold lots of useful books on the topics of bullying, self esteem and teenage stress.


Marvellous and Mischievous: Literature's Young Rebels

Anyone can be a rebel!!!



Illustration of Zog, Princess Pearl and Sir Gadabout © Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler, 2010



The British Library exhibition to celebrate the

marvellous and the mischevious in young people's

literature opens on on Friday the 8th of November.


Full details can be found here.