Library

Welcome to the Library web page.  The opening hours for the Senior School library are:

OPENING HOURS
9.15 AM – 3.15 PM
4.30 – 6.00 PM – STUDY

Our Librarian is  Mrs Barnard, who is always available to help and advise you in order for you to get the most from the Library.

Resources:

  • Over 7000 books for loan
  • Daily newspapers
  • Monthly periodicals
  • Reference books
  • Fiction collections
  • CD & Video collection
  • Revision Aids
  • Dedicated 6th Form Section

 

Mission:
The Library exists to provide materials and resources to support pupils and staff in the process of learning and teaching,  together with material for their cultural and recreational needs.   

Membership of Professional Bodies:

  • Education Librarians Group
  • Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
  • School Library Association

 

Objectives:

  • To provide  a curriculum focussed information collection that will support all subjects.
  • To closely liaise with teaching departments to meet school curriculum aims.
  • To develop pupils research skills.
  • To provide materials which encourage and challenge pupils to extend literacy through  reading for pleasure.
  • To purchase and revise current stock regularly.
  • To foster information skills through formal classes and informally at point of enquiry  whenever possible.
  • To devise means to inculcate the enjoyment of reading. 


Library News - please click on the links below to read about special events that have taken place at the library.

National Poetry Day

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Carnegie Book Award

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Readathon

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New Girls
All new girls attend Library lessons once a week during their first year at the Marist.  During this period girls receive an induction into the Library, which highlights the resources and procedures of the facility. 

There is a structured approach to reading through “The Reading Record” award scheme as well as allocated lesson time for research projects. 

The Librarian encourages girls to suggest new titles to add to stock.

All girls can take part in regular reading activities i.e. Readathons  and shadowing
groups.   

Reading Lists
Please click on the link below to view the reading lists for key stages 3 and 4 and the sixth form.

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Useful Links

BBC Book of the Week Book Club
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/bookclub
http://www.cool-reads.co.uk
http://www.achuka.co.uk

Authors Back Old Classics

A list of the best children’s books has been compiled by the five people who ought to know which ones to choose - the UK’s children’s laureates, past and present.

Quentin Blake, Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo, Jacqueline Wilson, and current Laureate Michael Rosen revealed their choices, and between them they demonstrated a preference for the old classics.

Only five of the 35 books chosen were published in the last 20 years, while a fifth were released in the 19th century. The oldest book was Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, which came out 170 years before the newest title, 2008’s Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear by Andy Stanton.

The most popular authors, with two picks apiece, were E Nesbit for Five Children and It and The Railway Children, and Robert Louis Stevenson for A Child’s Garden of Verses and Treasure Island.

M Morpurgo who was children’s laureate between 2003 and 2005, said of Treasure Island: “This was the first proper book I read for myself. Jim Hawkins was the first character in a book I identified with totally. I was Jim Hawkins. I lived Treasure Island as I read it. And I loved it. Still do. Wish I’d written it!”

Other names that made the cut include Monty Python star Terry Jones, for his 1981 book Fairy Tales, and Oscar Wilde for The Happy Prince.

The Chosen Books

  • Little Tim and the Brave Sea Captain by Edward Ardizzone (1936)
  • Queenie the Bantam by Bob Graham (1997)
  • The Box of Delights by John Masefield (1935)
  • Rose Blanche by Ian McEwan and Roberto Innocenti (1985)
  • Five Children and It by E. Nesbit (1902)
  • Snow White by Josephine Poole (1991)
  • Stuart Little by E.B.White (1945)
  • The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken (1963)
  • Absolute Zero by Helen Cresswell (1978)
  • Just William by Richmal Crompton (1922)
  • Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson (2001)
  • Lavender’s Blue by Kathleen Lines (1954)
  • A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson (1885)
  • Sword in the Stone by T.H.White (1938)
  • Five Go to Smuggler’s Top by Enid Blyton (1945)
  • Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton (1939)
  • Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1838)
  • Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling (1902)
  • A Book of Nonsense by Edward Lear (1846)
  • Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)
  • The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde (1888)
  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868-9)
  • A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1905)
  • What Katy Did by Susan Coolidge (1872)
  • The Family From One End Street by Eve Garnett (1937)
  • The Railway Children by E. Nesbit (1906)
  • Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild (1936)
  • Mary Poppins by P.L.Travers (1934)
  • Clown by Quentin Blake (1995)
  • The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (1947)
  • Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kastner ((1947)
  • Not Now, Bernard by David McKee (1980)
  • Fairy Tales by Terry Jones (1981)
  • Mr Gum and the Dancing Bear by Andy Stanton (2008)
  • Daz 4 Zoe by Robert Swindells (1990)