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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 a variety of curricular subjects. 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.

As part of the new 6th form centre currently under construction, there will be a new 6th form e-learning centre opening in Autumn 2009.

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