Author: Charlotte Kilford

SShhhh!!

Volume 1, Issue 1

January 2013

The Lowdown in the Library!!

Read for Children in Need a great success!

Cabot Learning Federation took part in a very successful fundraiser for Children in Need last November. All Academies took part and we raised a staggering £3358.64 in total. 580 pupils took part with a total of 77,659 pages read. The five Secondary School Academies all linked up via webcam, enabling students at each LRC to see and communicate with each other.
The 32 BBA students who took part should feel very proud as they managed to raise around £780 between them. It was a hugely successful event and will be taking place again next year. Thanks to those who took part, helped out and donated their well earned cash.
In an effort to keep the students motivated we set targets for each stage of the day & dangled cakes in front of their noses, and at the end of the day they enjoyed tucking into some delicious Pudsey cupcakes!

Wordsearches/Relays and lots of fun in the LRC!

The final week of term was lots of fun for the year 7 and 8 students who took part in quizzes, word searches and fun relays where the aim of the game was to find items in the LRC as quickly as possible.
The students have worked incredibly hard, hitting targets on Accelerated Reader, with many exceeding expectations and so we felt they deserved a little fun!!

National Quizzing Day

19th Dec 2012
Yr7 & Yr8 took part
252 Quizzes were taken

4,255 books were borrowed
Sept-Dec 2012

Total book loans last term

Since the introduction of the new lunch rules, we have issued Library passes to those deserving of them. Students who have a library pass can come to the library at lunch to sit quietly and read, do reading quizzes and homework

Accelerated Reader
Top 10 Word Counts go to:-
Amelia Mayfield 1,160,058 words
Matthew Bushell 1,027,486 words
Olivia Clifton 694,837 words
Sarah Broadwell 652,894 words
Yazmin Dawson 598,088 words
Joanna Brett 577,500 words
Haydon Oldfield Hibbs 575,555 words
Rungkan Downes 556,439 words
Aminah Mahmood 545,158 words
Malikah Aftab 527,472 words

Sarah Middleton
Carol Petteford
Lorraine Payne
Della Bradley
Charlotte Kilford
Andy Carr
Email us at:
resources@bba.bristol.sch.uk

In the LRC....

Life is too short not to do something that matters!

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The LRC staff are here to help! We can provide assistance with computer logins and passwords, laptop issues, setting up new starters, printing off new ID cards, Library and Music passes and any ICT room bookings. We can copy, bind and laminate documents, create award certificates and help out with designing displays, putting up displays and maintaining them. We can also set up assemblies and presentations.
We provide the students with a safe, comfortable environment for them to sit and read, take quizzes or do homework before school, at breaks, lunches and after school. Pop in and see us sometime!

Book boxes can be made up for classes should you wish. Students should be encouraged to use the LRC for independent study

We usually have the latest teen fiction in stock and always do our best to order in any books requested by students

Yr7 & Yr8 Accelerated Reader

Since Sept 2012, there have been 18 classes a week timetabled into the LRC for Accelerated Reader lessons. Students are encouraged to read books and then take quizzes, which builds up points on them, equaling prizes at the end of each term, should they reach their target. Most students have significantly increased their comprehension ages since starting the programme.

Oliver!

No, not the classic novel or musical, but the LRC’s online stock catalogue. PLEASE remember to encourage students to use Oliver (from BBA App’s on School Website) for book searches and internet searches. (Far quicker than trawling through Google!)

Forthcoming Events!!

Forthcoming Events!!

E-Book Survey; Yes another survey! Tell us what you think about proposed e-books!

World Book Day March 2013

We have The Etherington Brothers visiting to do workshops and a talk with our students http://theetheringtonbrothers.blogspot.co.uk/