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Westwood School

OPENING TIMES
Monday to Thursdays: 8am – 4pm
Fridays: 8am – 3.30pm

The ‘Not Just a Library’ at the Westwood Academy is the busy, bustling, crowded heart of the academy.  The Library is very well resourced providing fiction and factual books to support the curriculum, a huge range of teenage books for ‘reading for pleasure’ and recommended reads for Post-16 students to encourage wider reading.

Whilst wholeheartedly encouraging reading as the primary activity we also provide board games, Top Trumps, pictures for colouring and Sudokus.  We run various clubs throughout the year including board games, quiet reading, Quiddler (a bit like scrabble but with playing cards) and the spring term sees us looking for chess champions.

  • The Winter Warmer quiet reading club begins in November with hot chocolate served to readers;
  • We have a SPOOKY storytelling session around Hallowe’en;
  • We dress a tree in the Library for Christmas and pile the filled shoe boxes (see below) under it;
  • A Chess Tournament takes place in the spring term;
  • We have a Summer Book Café where we serve cold drinks and the Library is dressed with parasols for atmosphere; 
  • Weekly Chocolate Challenge – we set challenges and quizzes on a different theme every week.

With our Library Team we get involved in all aspects of charity fund raising helping to organise Comic Relief fun week; Children in Need and November sees us beginning to filling shoe boxes with donations from the pupils and staff and wrapping them in Christmas paper ready to go to the needy for distribution.

We are open before and after school, and every break and lunchtime.  We are open during lesson times for whole class groups to use the Library for book-based and computer research; we have 12 networked computers.

To encourage independent research skills we run a 6 week course for all Key Stage 3 pupils during their English lessons: Year 7 in the autumn term, Year 8 in the spring term and Year 9 in the summer term.  If time (and timetable) allow we have KS4 web-based research skill quiz sheets to reinforce their skills.


 
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