The Learning Resource Centre
Word cloud created with students' comments about the LRC
Aims
The LRC works in liaison with all departments to achieve the following aims:
- To provide an inclusive environment that stimulates and maintains an interest in reading so that students value reading as both a source of pleasure an important life skill.
- Identify curriculum opportunities to develop information literacy skills and ensure relevant resources are available so that students engage positively with learning.
- To provide a supportive safe place where students flourish and achieve their aspirations by developing rounded young people with emotional intelligence, thinking skills and the desire to give back to the community.
Opening Times
The LRC is situated in the Clark/Copley Building. It is open to all students at the times below:
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08.15 - 08.40
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11.05 - 11.20
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12.25 - 13.05
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15.15 - 16.10
It is also available for sixth form quiet study during free periods, or as a space to be booked by departments.
Facilities
The LRC is manned by a full-time librarian and provides a lending library, quiet study space and access to computers. It also organises a range of extracurricular activities during lunchtime.
The lending stock is current and contains up-to-date and relevant material appropriate to students' ages, abilities and interests. Purchases are made based both on student reading patterns and curriculum needs.
Loans
Students can be issued with up to three books for three-week periods. Books can be renewed on request.
Age restricted stock will only be issued to students in Years 10-13. If a younger student would like to borrow a resource from our age restricted collection an email will be sent to parents requesting permission to do so.
The LRC also manages the issuing and return of academic text books. These books are given an academic loan period that corresponds with the course being studied.
Remote Access
The LRC website can be accessed from home and school using the below link. Students can search our catalogue, make reservations and manage their loans.
E-book loans that can be read on computers, phones and tablets are also available through our e-platform subscription.
Overdues
Overdue reminders are sent directly to students via email on a fortnightly basis. Should a student fail to return an overdue book after the third reminder they will be issued with a penalty point. If the book is still not returned then their account will be suspended and guardians contacted. While an account is suspended no more loans, including academic ones, will be given.
If a book is lost, or irrevocably damaged then a replacement will be requested.
Information Literacy
The LRC provides a programme of information literacy skills from Year 7 right into Sixth Form with the aim of helping create independent, confident research scholars ready to enter higher education. These are delivered both through discreet library lessons or as part of subject research projects that take place in the LRC.
Some of the information skills covered include:
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understanding classification
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searching with the Dewey decimal system
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information retrieval skills
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effective search engine use
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copyright and fair use
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checking and citing sources
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identifying misinformation
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using academic databases
Court in session in the LRC. The culmination of a history project on the Romans.
Parents & Students
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