Winners of the Christmas 'Take a Risk' free prize draw

Over 200 students took a risk and a borrowed a 'Take a Risk' book at the end of last term.

157 Questionnaires were successfully completed and prizes given, as well as 45 spot prizes.  All entries were then put forward for the free prize draw.  

The lucky prize draw winners below were presented with their prizes at the KS3 assemblies:

• Hannah-Rose 7LC
• Joshua O 7AM
• Holly B 8NE

Thank you to all those who took part!

Library Lessons - Mapping the Empire

We offer a variety of Library lessons across all departments.  They are popular with the students, who tell us that they enjoy the opportunity to work independently and as part of a team.

‘Mapping the Empire’ is a History Library lesson, where the students are asked to pick a country that was part of the British Empire and produce a fact file on that country.  When the fact file is completed, the student places a dot on the map showing the location of their country.  This allows the class to consider the location, spread and importance of countries in the British Empire.  The teacher is able to take the map back to the classroom at the end of the session to use as a resource throughout the unit.

This term Mr Langley's Year 8 history class provided some colourful and informative fact files for display outside the Discovery Library.

Welcome Back!

Hope you all had a great Christmas and enjoyed reading lots of good books!

Look out for library competitions, with lots of prizes to be won, recommended reads and author visits this term! As well as asking your librarians for advice, why not have a look at the 'new books' and 'book review' pages of the blog for ideas of what to read next?   

The prize draw winners of our Christmas ‘Take a Risk’ competition will be announced soon – good luck!

Crisis at Christmas 2014

Thousands of people will be homeless this Christmas.

Each year, some of the staff at TRS choose to make a donation to Crisis instead of sending Christmas cards.  This year the students in 8ST joined staff in donating, giving up money they would have spent on pizza, and helping to raise a total of £350.

Crisis is a charity which offers shelter, companionship and life-changing services to people who are homeless.  To find out more visit the Crisis website.

Christmas Book and Film-Tie ins on TV

Why not enjoy a good book this Christmas holiday? Come and browse our display of Christmas books and books with a film tie-in on TV over the Christmas holidays in the Discovery library! Our display in the War Memorial Library includes festive reads!

 

We have lots of great titles in the both the Discovery and War Memorial libraries, including those in our ‘new books’ section so please feel free to browse and borrow.

Also, School Librarian, Helen Smith, has compiled her annual list of Christmas book and film tie-ins that are on TV over the Christmas Period. Please click on the link below to view: Christmas book to film list 2014

YA Book Prize 2015

The Bookseller’s new YA Book Prize 2015 short-list has been announced.  The list contains 10 books featuring a mix of dystopia, horror, fantasy, romance and realism.
They are:

• A Song for Ella Grey by David Almond 

• Salvage by Keren David

• Say Her Name by James Dawson

• Lobsters by Tom Ellen and Lucy Ivison

• Half Bad by Sally Green

• Finding a Voice by Kim Hood

• Only Ever Yours by Louise O'Neill 

• Goose by Dawn O'Porter 

• Trouble by Non Pratt

• The Ghosts of Heaven by Marcus Sedgwick

Judging will be taking place over the next few months and the winning author will be presented with the prize at a ceremony at Foyles in March.

Some of these titles are available to borrow in the Discovery and War Memorial Libraries.

Are You Ready to Take a Risk?

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

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!