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 […]
Continue readingBlack History Month 2024 – Recommended Reading
During Black History Month this October, discover our pick of literary change-makers cultivating compassion, awareness and understanding. With every title in our library, how many will you discover?
Continue readingBookbuzz ’24 – time to choose your book, Year 7
Welcome Year 7! We hope you are enjoying our treasure trove that is the Learning Resources Centre (LRC). You are now tasked with tricky decision of choosing a brand-new book to keep as your very own. With nearly every interest and genre represented (thriller; mystery; adventure; sci-fi; dystopian; magical realism; […]
Continue readingThe English Faculty recommend…
A round up of our favourite reads this summer term. Pick up this book if you’re keen to be transported to a side of London you’ve never seen before. One of magic and realism, fear and bravery, life and death. The protagonist Adam’s connection to the Tyger and determination to […]
Continue readingRose and Yaminah’s Guide to an Almost-Perfectly Perfect Book Review
With a regular ‘Book Corner’ spot in our school magazine, our two self-confessed bibliophiles, Rose and Yaminah share their top tips on how to write an ‘almost-perfectly perfect book review’:
Continue readingOur LRC Christmas ‘Book Tree’
Lighting up our LRC this year is our magical ‘Book Tree’ constructed by Ms Brown and her book elves and comprised of some of our favourite books from 2023, students’ recommendations and titles from our student and staff YA book clubs over the years. With a ‘guess the number of […]
Continue readingA Sea of Stories: our Year 7 ‘Bookbuzz’ titles arrive
Year 7 received their ‘Bookbuzz’ books this week thanks to the generosity of the George Green’s Trust. This means that every student from Year 7 to Year 10 has a book they’ve specifically chosen to keep for their own personal library. This year saw some fantastic titles (please see below), […]
Continue readingBookbuzz ’23 – time to choose your book, Year 7
Welcome Year 7! We hope you have discovered our treasure trove of a library. You are now tasked with tricky decision of choosing a brand-new book from twelve selected titles to keep as your very own. Which book will you choose? Browse our top picks below by reading each blurb, […]
Continue readingThe George Green’s Reading Challenge 2023
One Thousand and One Nights (created during the Islamic Golden Age), The Welsh Legend of King Arthur, Brothers Grimm’s Little Red Riding Hood, Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, Rudyard Kipling’s How the Camel Got his Hump, Cinderella (found in widely different cultures), Aesop’s fable The Tortoise and the Hare… […]
Continue readingBookbuzz ’22 – time to choose your book, Year 7
Welcome Year 7! We hope you have discovered our treasure trove of a library. You are now tasked with tricky decision of choosing a brand-new book from sixteen selected titles to keep as your very own. Which book will you choose? Browse our top picks below by reading each blurb, […]
Continue reading‘Protéger l’environement’
Last term, students in Years 7, 8 and 11 collaborated with Juliette Dodu Middle School in Réunion (an island in the Indian Ocean that is an overseas department and region of France) to co-write and design Protéger l’environement a graphic comic which explores the wonders of the natural world and […]
Continue readingStudents in conversation with acclaimed writers
As part of the BBC Teach ‘Lessons with Leaders’ series, four of our Year 11 students met with acclaimed writers Cressida Cowell and Benjamin Zephaniah. Kamile and Hasib interviewed author and illustrator Cressida Cowell of the hugely popular How to Train Your Dragon series about the importance of play in […]
Continue readingSupporting Reading at Home
Please view our guide below for tips links to help support your child with their reading experience.
Continue readingNew diverse reads both fiction and non-fiction
We are grateful to SEI Investments for choosing to gift our LRC a generous set of powerful reads, furthering our commitment to ensuring culturally inclusive representation in our fiction and non-fiction books. You will recognise authors such as: Alex Wheatley, Elizabeth Lard and David Olusoga as well as popular titles […]
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