Library
"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind
of library"
(Jorge Luis Borges)
Aims of the Department
To support
the highest possible standards in education by providing information
resources and the delivery of information literacy skills training for
every learner in the school.
Lower School or KS3
All year 7 pupils have a weekly lesson in the library during which they
learn how to use a variety of information resources effectively to undertake
research in a variety of curricular projects. They learn how to use both
book based and online based resources to build on their own prior knowledge
to create new meanings. These introductory skills are then built up during
Years 8 and 9 when pupils complete research projects in Chemistry, Physics,
PHSCE, Geography and Biology. During Key Stage 3 we build the foundations
of a lifetime of independent learning
The Library runs two reading clubs for Key Stage 3 and hosts a variety
of activities geared around raising the profile of reading in school.
Upper School or KS4
The skills that were developed at Key Stage 3 are revisited but this
time as aids to course work and revision. Pupils learn how to modify the
research skills they learned at Key Stage 3 in a new way, discovering for
themselves which techniques work best for them.
Sixth Form or Post 16
Sixth formers use the library independently throughout the day for private
study and to obtain assistance with their studies. The librarian creates
specialist online resources to help students to find online sources for
their studies, works with individual students to find the best resources
for the student’s personal studies, and arranges inter-library loans
on behalf of the students with the British Library and North Yorkshire
County Library Service. The library runs a reading club specifically designed
to keep 6 th formers developing as readers.
Additional Information
The work of the library has been featured in several
university studies, and the librarian was recently awarded the School
Library Association’s
School Librarian of the Year Award for 2006 as an example of good practice
and innovation in school librarianship.
Internet links
www.philb.com/searchindex.htm -
Get the most our of Internet searching by using this online guide
www.ripongrammar.co.uk/subject_departments/library/projectplanner.php -
An online guide for GCSE and A level planning for coursework and/or revision
www.ripongrammar.co.uk/subject_departments/library/netskills.php -
The library’s guide to getting the most out of the Internet
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