Summer 2015 Edition 5
BookWorm DESIGN A BOOKMARK COMPETITION
The Library is thrilled to announce that we now have an e-lending service, RM Books. Pupils can upload a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction books whilst in school and read at their leisure on any internet enabled device at home, at school or whilst out and about. The system is accessed via RM Unify using pupils’ individual school log in details (staff can access too in the same way). Once on the RM Books site, select ‘School Library’ and have a look at the amazing range of books on offer and take your pick. Your chosen book will then appear in ‘My Books’ for a loan period of three weeks. Do speak to Mrs Needham or Mrs Ryan in the Library if you need any help with this exciting new resource.
We had a large number of high-quality entries for our Design a Bookmark competition this year which made choosing our winners an incredibly difficult task! The competition was open to pupils from the Shells, Second and Third Years who wowed us once again with their obvious love of reading, their thoughtful choice of book quotes, their words of book-related wisdom and their artistic skills. The winners were as follows: Shells: Giselle Pinto 2nd Years: Caragh Shaw and Fiona Chung (too hard to choose between them!) 3rd Years: Ashleigh Stonier. And the runners up: Shells: Toby Harkin and Lauren Gillan (both amazing) 2nd Years: Rhea Upadhyay Third Year: Emma Blackett. All our worthy winners were presented with a beautiful certificate, designed by the equally creative Mrs Mair in Reprographics, which featured their winning bookmark and a Waterstones gift voucher. All the winning bookmark entries are being printed up by Mrs Mair and will be available to all pupils to pick up from the Library reception desk. It will be incredibly rewarding for these gifted pupils to see their designs in print and being used by their peers!
BOOK FAIR The Library hosted a Scholastic Book Fair in November to coincide with Reading Week. This is an annual event and this year’s fair was extremely well supported.