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Welcome To The Library Page The School Library is based on two floors at the front entrance to the School. It shares its site and facilities with Seaton Valley Community Library, and is run by Mr Richardson (School Librarian) and Mrs Lawton (School Library Assistant).
When Can You Visit?
We are open to members of the school as follows:
Monday 9.00-7.00
Tuesday 9.00-4.30
Wednesday 9.00-7.00
Thursday 9.00-4.00
Friday 9.00-5.00
Saturday 10.00-12.30
There is no access available to school network computers on Saturdays.
The hours for the community are slightly different:
Monday 9.30-12.30; 1.30-7.00
Tuesday CLOSED
Wednesday 9.30-12.30; 1.30-7.00
Thursday CLOSED
Friday 9.30-12.30; 1.30-5.00
Saturday 10.00-12.30
During the school day, Sixth Form students may work in the Library at any time. Pupils in Years 9, 10 and 11 may visit the Library at morning break (through the entrance upstairs only) or during lesson time with their teacher’s consent. If you have permission to use the Library during lesson time, you must have your diary signed by your teacher.
Students can also use the Library at lunchtimes. To visit us during Periods 5, 6 or 7 you need the correct pass. These are issued upstairs by staff during morning break. But you need to be quick - a maximum of only 20 passes are given out for each of the three periods.
WHAT CAN WE OFFER YOU?
The Library has a wide range of resources available for all ages and abilities.
As well as having over 15,000 books on site (the majority of which can be borrowed for 3 weeks), the Library is able to offer access to a wide selection of magazines and journals and (at a reasonable charge) a good range of DVDs.
We also take delivery of three daily newspapers (Journal, Times and Telegraph).
Members of the Library can borrow up to 20 items from any of Northumberland County Council’s libraries. However, please remember to return any item that you borrow by the due date otherwise you may incur fines.
Upstairs in the Library, we also keep a wide selection of reference books (dictionaries, atlases, encyclopaedias), which can be consulted on-site only.
If you can’t find what you are looking for in print, don’t despair! Access to the Internet and all the information that it contains is only a click away with one of the eight school computers that we have available upstairs.
STATIONERY SHOP
The library has its own stationery shop. Items can be bought upstairs during normal opening hours at the following prices:
Pens 20p
Pencils 10p
Rulers 20p
Protractors 20p
Compasses 50p
Rubbers 10p
A4 Refill pads (80 pages) 95p
Poly Pockets 2p
Highlighters Pens 50p
USING THE LIBRARY
We all need to ensure that the Library is a tidy and orderly environment in which everyone can work productively and safely.
Staff can only do this with your co-operation and by implementing some simple rules:
All the general rules that apply to you elsewhere in School are applicable in the Library.
All members of the Library team should be spoken to with the same courtesy and respect that any other member of staff deserves.
Please respect other customers of the Library. Remember that members of public use the Library and that the impression that they have of the School can depend on how you talk and act in it.
For your safety and for the safety of others, no running is allowed anywhere in the Library.
To preserve stock and equipment, food and drink are not allowed in the Library.
Students in Years 9, 10 and 11 have to leave their coats and bags outside the Library against the window on the bridge. Sixth Form students are allowed to bring coats and bags into the Library, but are responsible for ensuring that they are stored safely and do not cause an obstruction.
Please ensure that any bags you bring into the Library do not cause an obstruction and are stored safely.
Mobile phones must be switched off.
Computers must only be used for schoolwork. You cannot use PCs to download music or video files, play games, send social emails or access unsuitable sites.
COME AND VISIT US!!
We hope that this information has whetted your appetite to learn more about the Library. You are welcome to visit us as often as you can and to make the very best use of what the Library and its staff have to offer you throughout your time at the School.
We look forward to seeing you!