Pupil Librarian Training Day

 This week, our Pupil Librarians travelled to The Elmgreen School for a busy day of training and a talk by Sufiya Ahmed, author of Rosie Raja: Churchill's Spy and Noor Inayat Khan.

At Elmgreen, we heard from former CILIP* President Barbara Band about the Pupil Library Assistant of the Year award and gained a lot of inspiration from hearing about the work of other Pupil Librarians throughout London. 

In the morning, our students learnt more about day to day library work, customer service and GDPR. We then spent a busy afternoon completing book themes quizzes and working on promotional posters. As part of this task, students were introduced to a new book and asked to create an A3 promotional poster. 

Our Pupil Librarians did a great job producing two beautiful posters in oil pastels which will soon be up on display in the LCA!

* Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals

 

A Trip to the Archives

This week, a group of our Year 9 and 10 students got the opportunity to visit Westminster Archives as part of a research day organised by our Librarian, Mrs. Swan.

Here they were lucky enough to read the original minute books of The Grey Coat Hospital from 1863-1885 for themselves. We also had great fun looking into the student's behaviour as recorded in the 1850s reports and admiring the dramatic penmanship of the 1780s.

After returning from the archives, the students researched Victorian life using library resources and learnt about what schools were like for children at that time.

The afternoon was then spent researching the lives of 19th century Grey Coat students using Ancestry and working on some creative writing pieces featuring the former students - which we look forward to sharing very soon!

Graphic Novel Club News: Trip to Forbidden Planet!

Towards the end of last term, the Graphic Novels Club were lucky enough to visit the Forbidden Planet Superstore!

Having already eagerly read (and reread!) the broad range of graphic novels available at the Library, our book club members were tasked with picking out some brand new titles.

Working together to manage their book-buying budget, the students carefully chose a great selection of graphic novels including the next instalments of My Hero Academia, Fullmetal Alchemist and many more exciting new books. 

All books purchased by the GN Club will soon be available to be borrowed by all students. Keep an eye out for our 'Chosen by the Graphic Novel Club' stickers on all new titles.

Thank you to Lee and Victoria at Forbidden Planet for all their brilliant help and expertise - the GN Club very much looks forward to returning again next year!