And we're back!

To celebrate the return of the Grey Coat Library blog, we have a week's worth of posts written by the librarians and pupil librarians that celebrate all we have been doing so far this year.

Our first contribution is a description of some of the exciting things that happened in the library last term by Natasha, one of our pupil librarians:

"In February we had a Valentine’s Day display. This included fictional couples which you could vote on to decide which the best couple were. There was also difficult and competitive quiz. Lots of students were eager to get their share in the topic of conversation. Some of the favourite couples were Anne and Gilbert (Anne of Green Gables), Hazel and Augustus (The Fault in Our Stars), Tris and Tobias (Divergent) and there were many more great romantic couples. The vote-winning couple was Peeta and Katniss from The Hunger Games.

On World Book Day (March 6th) we had a visit from the teen author Phil Earle. The library organised this event, including Phil Earle giving a talk about writing to year 8 and 9. This inspired and convinced many of the students to start writing and gave them ideas of good books to read. It was a brilliant scene in the library at break time as many students gathered around to get books, posters and bookmarks signed or to just have a chat with him about what it’s like to be an author."

Phil Earle's latest book cover. His website is http://www.philearle.com/