Dream a Little Dream of Me

We had a week of magical celebrations for the one true hero of children's books—Roald Dahl. To celebrate his birthday on 13th September, we had a week packed with epic things; there was a daily fun filled scavenger hunt searching for elusive ‘Golden Tickets’, with the gloriumptious prizes of fizz-popping and whizz-banging sweets, sweets… and more sweets!

The LRC showed it's Roald Dahl colours with a dahlicious display of some of Dahl's best works, including the novels such as ‘The BFG’ (my  personal favourite) ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ and ‘Matilda’ (Leane's favourite).

The final touch was the Craft Club making Dream Jars for the display, sharing student’s dreams and giving off that true childhood enchantment we all experienced through reading Roald Dahl.

Student Librarian: Jessica MacCulloch

Teenage Kicks

I thought it might be useful to tell you about the After College Programme in the LRC. All events are FREE and open to all students and staff.

Join us on Mondays for Book Club, Tuesdays for Chess Club and Thursdays for Craft Club; or aspiring writers  can get involved with creating content for our LRC newsletter, |shelf life. Check out our new series of posters below for more information.

LRC Manager: Leane Kinsella

“Book Club has a cosy and warm atmosphere and the Craft Club is an imaginative and fun way to create different makes each week.”     Student Librarian: Jess MacCulloch

 

The Winner Takes It All

It was an enjoyable afternoon for the LRC team when we presented the certificates for the Student Librarian Awards.  It was a gathering between friends not team mates, the goodbyes were hard but we know each of them are going on to better things. It was a great way to say farewell and celebrate the year we’d had together. 

Student Librarian: Beckie Lees

When You Say Goodbye and I Say Hello...

The summer term is always quieter in the LRC with students and staff focused on exam preparations but we managed to have a super time at our Marvellous Superheroes event. We celebrated the end of exams with a quiz for fans of Marvel and DC comics– see our 'I'm Holding Out For A Hero' post for more information about the event from our students.

It is also a time of change for the LRC team as we say a fond farewell to students moving on to university or the world of  work and welcoming new student recruits to the team but we finished the year with a bang with our LRC Team student librarian awards evening – excellent achievements from all our students. Look out for our recap coming soon.

LRC Manager: Leane Kinsella

I'm Holding Out For A Hero

As Student Librarians, we help to organise and plan different events in the LRC.

For the summer term we chose to plan our Marvel vs. DC themed comic event called ‘Marvellous Superheroes’.

Students discovered their own superhero name and then joined either the Marvel or DC team to get involved with a scavenger hunt and comic quiz.

Student Librarians:  Jack Lyon & Liam Gowing

 “I thought it was brilliant that we had our own super hero name and super powers—my power was phasing, so cool and even better, our Marvel Team won the quiz and scavenger hunt.”            Student: Jessica Reddington