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Winner of Carnegie and Greenaway Medals
For the first time ever the same book has won both the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals. Huge congratulations to author Patrick Ness and illustrator Jim Kay for “A Monster Calls”: Official...
View ArticleThank-you, we had a great day!
Many thanks to Alan Gibbons for a fantastic day! Students from Year 5 to 7 enjoyed an Author Talk from Alan in the morning. They really enjoyed his sense of humour and also finding out about how he...
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Welcome to Year 9 Physics students!
Mrs Robinson has made a Research Guide to help you investigate aspects of Astronomy. Here it is in the widget below: Or try this direct link – Astronomy Research Guide
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Year 8 Book Trailers
They are ready! Some of our Year 8 students have been creating really great trailers to advertise their favourite books. Click on the image below to watch them and then vote for your favourite:
View ArticleWelcome to our new Sixth Formers
It was great to be able to speak to our new Sixth Formers on their Induction Day about the Library Services we offer. The presentation and guide to the Library Services are embedded below: Guide to the...
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Have a great Summer!
Mrs Robinson wishes everyone at The Dixie Grammar School a fantastic Summer Holiday! Maybe something like these images from Flickr: Summer by adwriter on Flickr smil’s summer break by ‘smil on Flickr...
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Our website is in a book!
Mrs Robinson was thrilled to receive a mysterious parcel from the United States this morning. It contained a book: The book, ” Learning from Libraries That Use WordPress”, is by Kyle M L Jones and...
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Fantastic news!
We have won an iPod Touch for our school libraries! Microlibrarian Systems, who are the developers of our Library Management System, Eclipse2, entered us into their prize draw and we won. Mrs Robinson...
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Reading Challenge 2012-13
To all Year 6, Year 7 and Year 8 students Are you ready for a challenge? Then we are going to give you your new Reading Challenge for this year! You will be given your new challenges during your first...
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Countdown to Christmas!
Christmas Countdown designed by Christmas Gifts.org This is a Research Guide on Christmas Around the World , with weblinks, images and loads of information: Here is a very helpful guide to films being...
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Happy New Year!
Hoping that you all have a great 2013! Image: 2013 by tEdits on Flickr Watch this space for exciting new developments during the year! New in 2013: Large Print Fiction – We now have over 60 large print...
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Watching the weather!
Everyone is talking about snow today! Watch these widgets to see the forecast for our local area: This Weather Widget is provided by the Met Office Weather Market Bosworth, Bos… © weathercast.co.uk
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Space Fiction at the Space Centre
The National Space Centre in Leicester has a Space Fiction event from 9 to 24 February. This is what they say about it: From The First Men in the Moon to the Hitch-hikers’ Guide To The Galaxy, science...
View ArticleEvaluation, planning and accountability
Libraries are very valuable assets for their schools, not only in terms of the cost of the resources, furniture and equipment, but also the investment in professional staffing. It is essential that...
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Improve your Google searching
Do you want to improve your use of Google? Why not have a look at this fantastic infographic and “Get More Out of Google”! Click on the image below: Created by: HackCollege Many thanks to Dianne...
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Access to audiobooks
We now have access to Listening Books, an online audio streaming service providing children’s fiction and non-fiction in an audio format. These books can be listened to on a PC or laptop, or downloaded...
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Skeleton confirmed as Richard III
Exciting news, as the school is in Market Bosworth and so close to Bosworth Field. It was announced today by a team from the University of Leicester that the skeleton found underneath a Leicester car...
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Research topics
We have two research topics taking place in the Library during the rest of the Spring Term: Year 8 Physics: Energy Sources Year 9 Home Economics: Chinese Food and Culture Year 8 Physics: Energy Sources...
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Carnegie Medal and Kate Greenaway Award Shortlists 2013
They are here, reading fans! The shortlists for the most prestigious prizes in Children’s Literature. A colleague (see below) has collected the Carnegie Medal shortlist on Pinterest together with a set...
View ArticleI Like Big Books – Larbert High School
Great video created by Larbert High school about books, reading and libraries. Lovely to see how the whole school gets involved.
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