Learning Resource Centre
“The school library is the heart of the school, which itself has learning at its core and good libraries can empower the learner.” (School Libraries: Making a Difference, DfES, 2004.)
- The Learning Resource Centre provides a welcoming, attractive and stimulating environment for independent learning and recreational reading
- We provide a range of resources, and with the expertise of our Chartered Librarian and Assistant Librarian we are able to help students to develop their information literacy skills
- By encouraging students to take responsibility for their own learning, we are able to promote the development of lifelong skills
We promote improvements in reading skills by the use of the Accelerated Reader reading programme
The LRC is open all day and students are encouraged to make use of the wide-ranging facilities before school, at break, lunchtime and after school
Teaching staff also book lessons in the LRC for whole classes as appropriate. By utilising their information literacy skills students can find and use the resources they need for their coursework
Links to over 10,000 websites, on a range of topics, are incorporated with the book stock on to the LRC computer catalogue “Oliver”. Students are able to access this at school for homework or revision purposes
Students can join the Chatterbox Book Club on Wednesday lunchtimes. They participate in a range of activities, from discussing their favourite books to choosing new titles for the LRC
In addition, there are opportunities throughout the year for students to get involved in reading-related activities such as book fairs, author visits, and shadowing the Carnegie Award for children’s book of the year
The LRC helps to lead on our Accelerated Reader programme.