Year 7 Library Activity

We have just finished a very enjoyable year 7 Library Activity with Hilliard’s House. Read on to find out what we got up to… 

 

Year 7 Activity - Short's House

It was lovely to welcome our second house to the library for our year seven activity. Incredibly all of them had already borrowed books from us and so were very familiar with our system! Read on to find out how Short’s House got on…

Year 7 Activity - Glenn's House

This was the first week of the first library activity for Year seven in this academic year and we were very excited because we were back in the library rather than in tutor rooms! We had a amazing house to begin with lots of lovely readers in it.

Edward’s House Year 7 Library Activity

It was lovely to finally meet the Year 7 Edward’s – our last house of the year! This is what we got up to in our all too short time together.

Scott's Year 7 Library Activity

For the last five weeks we have had the privilege of having Scott’s Year 7 pupils in our library activity. Although as usual for this year we had to go to their form room as opposed to them coming to the library, we had a great time! Read on if you want to know what we got up to…

Short's House Year 7 Library Activity

For the last four weeks since we came back to physical school, we have been having our library activity with a Year 7s House. Below is our account of our shorter time than usual with the Short House!

Niamir's House Library Activity

 

In week 1 we made our way to year 7 Niamir’s house form room where we found an eager group of pupils waiting. It was time for our second ‘ not in the library’ house activity!

Glenn's Year 7 Library Activity

In these unusual times it was Glenn’s House who first experienced the Year 7 library activity this year which for once was not in the library but in their tutor room which felt slightly strange! Having introduced ourselves we started with a discussion on Heroes and Villains - what makes a good hero or villain? There were loads of suggestions and participation in the quiz although Voldemort came up way too frequently! Reading for Pleasure and good Sleep Hygiene were then explored before we explained the new Click and Collect system to them as sadly they cannot come into the library at the moment.

Year 7 Library Activity - Niamir's House

Just before Christmas we had the pleasure of welcoming our second Year 7 House to the library activity on Monday afternoons. Niamir’s House proved to be articulate, full of ideas and very keen to join in especially in the quizzes! This is what we got up to…..

Year 7 library Activity - Scott’s House!

It’s all change on the Library Activity front again as we say good bye to Year 7 Scott’s House after five weeks of book based excitement.

Year 7 Library Activity - Short's

Thank you to Year 7 Short’s who were our first participants from the new cohort for the Autumn Term and I hope you all feel as warmed up and ready to go as we do! Most of you have already been back in using the Library like pros which is always a good sign!

Year 7 Library Activity - Glenn's!

The last Year 7 Activity group of this academic year has left the Library building and although a short but sweet run of only four weeks it ended on a high note with some lovely presentations.

Year 7 Library Activity - Scott's!

Short’s, we will miss you from our Monday afternoons! There was drama, there was comedy, there was dancing, there was…the Library of Congress song.

Year 7 Library Activity - Niamir's!

This week it was “thank you and see you again soon” to Year 7 Niamir's in the Library. A consistently enthusiastic bunch, especially when it came to quizzing, they made a splash in all the tasks and we had a Library first when it came to the presentations…

Year 7 Library Activity – Short’s!

We have just come to the end of our weekly Library Activity with Short’s Year 7 class and they will be missed!

The group showed great enthusiasm and dedication to the various topics and ideas that arose from our Monday afternoon discussions which culminated in some really impressive presentations in the second week back after Christmas and an extremely close competition in the closing quizzes!

Year 7 Hilliard's Library Activity

Hilliard’s have performed brilliantly in the Library over these last six weeks, culminating in a very close call in the final quiz scores! Us Librarians were very impressed with the group’s attention to detail, interesting questions and the unique discussions that ensued, thank you Hilliard’s!

Year 7 Edwards' Library Activity

Edwards' House gave us a colourful start to the new school year in the first six weeks of term. We kicked off with some new games, tasks and discussions. There a was heated discussion on the greatest heroes and villains in children’s literature, looking how what constitutes a hero and a villain has changed over the years. Then we discussed bad book covers and how publishers sell their books to audiences through good design,  promotion and marketing. Finally we talked about the book cover characteristics of different genres, and how they give the reader an idea of the story without giving too much away.

Year 7 Library Activity: Scott's House!

And....last, but not least:

We have come to the end of another year and another set of Year 7 Library Activities!

Well done to Scott’s House who finished off the Summer term last week with some high scoring rounds in the final quiz! Here is team 'Ululating Llamas' walking away with the prize with an impressive 37 out of a possible 40 points!:

Year 7 Literary Event

J. P. Smythe Author Visit

On Monday 18th June, Year Seven had an afternoon with the award winning author JP Smythe. The students have been introduced to Smythe’s Australia series in Year 7 Activity discussions about effective book covers and exploring the science fiction and dystopian genres.

Diamond's House Year 7 Library Activity

Thank you for joining us for the most recent stretch of activities in the Library, Diamond's House! We had some great discussions with you and one of the most heated and successful Library scavenger hunts ever!

This competitive bunch really took note in the discussions and showed themselves to be enthusiastic and knowledgeable.

In our first discussion on fiction, where to find it, how to find it and how we choose what to read we looked at characters, heroes and villains, genre and book cover design as ways of getting stuck into reading what we want to read and exploring new things.

We looked at typography and lettering, colour, shade and contrast, imagery, blurb and spine design and then handed over to Diamond's imagination to create their own book covers. This session produced one of our favourite book covers so far, check out Liv's rendering of Arsenic For Tea by Robin Stevens:

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