‘A book is a dream that you hold in your hand’. Neil Gaiman.
The newly opened library at Margaret Aylward CC is part of the JCSP Library Demonstration Project – one of only 30 nationwide, staffed by a professional librarian, open to the entire school community, but primarily catering for the Junior Cycle students. There are 6 networked PC’s and an extensive collection of Young Adult books, general fiction, nonfiction, magazines, dvds, teacher resources, literacy and numeracy games and audio books.
The spooky Halloween décor has just come down and we enjoyed visits from local primary schools at the end of last month!
The school’s literacy and numeracy strategy is reflected in everything we do and plan to do; aiming to improve student attainment, by providing access to research materials for homework and JCSP class projects such as Make a Book, by stimulating interest in reading for pleasure, by collaborating with the Maths department on numeracy initiatives and by promoting information literacy and library skills among the students.
Not only that – we will continue established initiatives here such as Drop Everything And Read, the Digital Library and the very popular Junior and Senior lunchtime bookclubs. All of which helped the school to win a National reading award recently – The Wellread Award!
We will have paired reading with local primary schools, Word of the Day, a new creative writing club, and maybe a craft club next year. Parents and guardians are also welcome to visit and borrow. The library is a space to participate but also to relax, play music, chat or read!
This month we will have a visit from a French theatre troupe who will perform for 2nd and 3rd years, and a visit from a mystery math magician...
The librarian wishes to thank everyone for welcoming her to the school!
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Top 5 YA and Children’s Books - Ireland Oct 8 2016
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