Tavistock College - Library News
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Who will be the winner of the CILIP Carnegie Teenage Children’s Book Award in 2013?
Two events for Carnegie
1. We urgently need students to form a shadowing group and represent the College at the annual schools shadowing event to be held this year at Tavistock College on Wednesday 19th June.
You will:
- Meet an author
- Champion our Carnegie book by performing a group presentation on Wonder by R.J. Palacio
- Meet and compete against students from other Devon Colleges and vote on their presentations
If you think you might be interested in having fun and taking part just drop into the Library or speak to Miss Strongman in the English Department.
2. Carnegie Judges vs Tavistock Students
All staff and students are invited to take part - Join the debate, read a book and give it a score
The shortlist of 8 books has been announced:
- The Weight of Water by Sarah Crossan
- A Greyhound of a Girl by Roddy Doyle
- Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner
- In Darkness by Nick Lane
- Wonder by R.J. Palacio
- Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick
- A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton
- Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
We’ve allocated a coloured book to each of the titles. Why don’t you read one (or all 8 if you’re up to it) of the shortlisted books, give it a score out of 10 and add to the display in the Library. How many books can you read before 19th June? We’ll tot up all your scores and compare our winner with the official choice and see if you agree!
Edited on: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 9:30 AM
Categories: News
Friday, March 15, 2013
World Book Day 2013
The run up to World Book Day this year was especially exciting with a
Scholastic Book Fair running for a week giving everyone a chance to
spend their World Book Day vouchers, and a talk to year 7 by author
Katherine Roberts. Katherine read from the first book in her Pendragon
series, ‘Sword of Light’ a story set in the time of King Arthur. The
heroine Rhianna Pendragon, is the secret daughter of Arthur and
Guinevere. Raised in ignorance of her parentage she had been taken by
Merlin to enchanted Avalon as a baby for protection against the evil
Mordred. She finds out her true parentage when Arthur dies and now as
the King’s heir she must go on a quest: to search for the four magical
Lights with the power to restore Arthur’s soul to his body. The Year
7s were hooked by the story, commenting "she made me want to read the
book because she made it sound really interesting", "it was inspiring"
and "I was really excited to see an author". Many used their World
Book Day vouchers to help pay for a signed copy of one of the books in
the series.
As part of the celebrations competitions were running on the website and in the Library and a display of the specially published, free £1.00 World Book Day books allowed students to see what else they could exchange their vouchers for!
Congratulations to all our competition winners.
Edited on: Friday, March 15, 2013 3:09 PM
Categories: News
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Meet the 100%ers
Following on from the successful introduction of the accelerated
reading scheme in November the library has now introduced an
‘100%’ board.
All Year 7 students who achieve 100% in the ‘Accelerated Reader’ quiz have a certificate to take home, a small prize and now their name added to the 100%ers board. They then add a star to their name for every new 100% they score. It gives them an instant, visual record of success and they really like adding their new stars themselves
Coming soon – ‘Target Crunchers ‘ - all students who have aced their targets will be named and famed!
Edited on: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 11:44 AM
Categories: News
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
New, Comfy Seating is a Big Hit with Students
Thanks to generous funding by the Year Seven and Eight PTAs students
can now enjoy the new Library ‘Bean Bags’.
The soft seating is part of an aim to make the Library really user friendly and is already encouraging students to stop and read.
Edited on: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 12:23 PM
Categories: News
Friday, November 23, 2012
A Free Book for Every Year Seven Student – for the fifth year in a row!
Once again, and thanks to the partnership between the College Library
and the charity Booktrust, every Year 7 student in the College was
able again, in September, to choose a free book from an exciting list
of 13.
The idea - to encourage them to develop a good reading habit by giving them a free book they will really enjoy. The exciting titles ranged from fiction to non-fiction, poetry and science to mystery, horror and fantasy, something for everyone!
Students have been regularly calling in ever since and asking if their books have arrived so it felt like an early Christmas when they all did and I could hand them out to excited students! Happy reading year 7!
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Halloween Competition Winners
Halloween Fun – in the Library
This proved very popular with students who really got into the ‘spirit’ of it! Congratulations to all the ‘ghoulishly clever winners of the competitions!
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Halloween Decoder
Winners: Lauren 7F and Sacha Hughes 8G
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Wicked Wordsearch
Winners: Milly 8T and Billy Mathews 8F
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Halloween Maze
Winners: Molly Bolding 8DA and Alana Jones 8DA
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Halloween On-Line Quiz
Keystage 3 Winner: Keri Hurford 8F
Keystage 4 Winner: Martha Walke 10BA
6th Form/Staff Winner: Catherine Jones 6FFD
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Draw Winners
Holly 7D, Sophie 7DA, Ewan 7F, Isaac 7F, Becky 7GA, Tom 7GA, Reece Philips 8F, Tom 8G, Alex Hiscocks 8T, Summer Davey 9D, Rhys Bould –Lynch 9FA, Adam Piper 9T and Will Gardner 6FGD
Don't forget to collect your prizes from the Library.
Edited on: Wednesday, November 07, 2012 8:48 AM
Categories: News
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
The CILIP Carnegie Teenage Book Award 2012
Awarded annually the CILIP Carnegie Medal is considered to be the UK’s
most important children’s literature award. Although there is no prize
money writers often describe Carnegie as the one they want to win! The
winner is chosen from a shortlist of 8 books by a panel of Librarians.
In partnership, the English department and the Library took a group of 6 students to Plymouth High for the annual inter-schools ‘Carnegie Book Shadowing Event’ on Thursday 14th June to celebrate books and reading and to parallel the official judging taking place in London. Local colleges each delivered 10 minute presentations championing their allocated book (ours was ‘Between Shades of Gray’ by Ruta Sepetys).
Students met and mingled with those from other colleges, listened to a local author, took part in a creative writing workshop and had a wonderful time! The collective vote for best shortlisted book by those present matched with the official winner announced on the Carnegie website at noon which was ‘A Monster Calls’ by Patrick Ness!
Kathy Worrall, Librarian
Friday, June 22, 2012
Paired Readers’ Breakfast Party!
For the last four years the College has run a successful ‘Paired
Reading’ scheme whereby Sixth Form students give up their time twice a
week to support some Year7-8 students who, it is felt, would benefit
from regular reading practice. Some of this year’s team are pictured
celebrating another successful programme with a final thank-you
breakfast part. At the party prizes were given out to the most
successful partners and the Sixth Form volunteers were presented with
well-deserved letters of appreciation and thanks for all the time and
effort spent. It is schemes like this where students generously help
each other that really make this a ‘Community College’.
Kathy Worrall Librarian