Aims of Our Library Aims of the Library
| Aims of the Library |
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| Written by The Librarian |
| Friday, 23 January 2009 17:04 |
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Provide a stimulating, yet supportive environment to encourage and help to develop, a lively enquiring mind. Encourage all students to work towards reaching their potential, by helping them to become independent learners. Support the curriculum of the School and respond quickly to curriculum development. Enable students to be familiar with and confident in their ability to use information retrieval skills from a wide range of resources including books, magazines, The Internet and CD-ROMs. Provide resources that allow all students - irrespective of gender, ethnic origin or academic ability to have equal access to a wider body of knowledge and encourage them to experience success and enjoyment in the use of their library. Develop awareness in students of the
significance of books and other library resources in order to value
them as an important and pleasurable realm of human experience. |
"if a child can read, they can think,
if a child can think they are free"
Siobhan Dowd (1960-2007)
Carnegie Medal 2009
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It would be much easier to tell this story if it were all about a chaste and perfect love between Two Children Against the World at an Extreme Time in History. But let's face it, that would be crap. Daisy is sent from New York to England to spend a summer with cousins she has never met. They are Isaac, Edmond, Osbert and Piper. And two dogs and a goat. She's never met anyone quite like them before - and, as a dreamy English summer progresses, Daisy finds herself caught in a timeless bubble. It seems like the perfect summer. But their lives are about to explode. Falling in love is just the start of it. War breaks out - a war none of them understands, or really cares about, until it lands on their doorstep. The family is separated. The perfect summer is blown apart. Daisy's life is changed forever - and the world is too.
