Accessit Library is the programme you will use when using the Learning Resources Centre (LRC). It helps you search for books, websites, film clips, external databases and more. You can reserve books, set ‘interests’ for notifications, renew loans and view past loans, write book reviews and much more. Our Home […]
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Supporting Reading at Home
Please view our guide below for tips links to help support your child with their reading experience.
Continue readingOur new ‘Shelf Care’ Section for Wellbeing
Books can help us navigate life’s big challenges, providing advice and support in understanding and managing our feelings and personal growth. It’s reassuring, and often illuminating, to see ourselves or others in what we read when trying to take better care of ourselves and those around us. Our new ‘shelf-care’ […]
Continue reading‘The Hate U Give’ by Angie Thomas (Mature Upper KS3+)
Be aware that there is strong language, though it is completely within context and appropriate for the nature of the book. One of the most powerful YA books I have ever read. This is a story of one young girl’s witnessing of police brutality and institutional racism, the impact it […]
Continue readingThe CILIP Carnegie Medal Shortlist 2021
The CILIP Carnegie Medal is the UK’s oldest children’s book award, recognising outstanding reading experiences created through writing for children and young people. The shortlist this year includes our most recent YA Fiction Staff Book Club’s Book of the Month Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo as well as […]
Continue reading‘The 57 Bus’ by Dashka Slater (KS4+)
The 57 Bus is an amazing book. It really opened up my mind and helped me to understand things I had never fully understood before. It really showed society’s mentality as a whole, and I think it’s a book that needs to be read by everyone. Emeli, Year 11 ‘The […]
Continue readingFrom Extract to Novel: KS4/5 Fiction
‘Books are a uniquely portable magic’. Stephen King The English Language GCSE Paper 1: Explorations in creative reading and writing introduces a range of prose fiction drawn from either the 20th or 21st century in extract form. So many are fantastic works of fiction (and personal favourites) that we think […]
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