Library Online

New Guides to our Library Services

Mrs Robinson — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:23:36 +0000

Mrs Robinson has made these two new guides to the Library Services at The Dixie Grammar School:

Joint Library Services

Governor Guide to the Library Services on Issuu:

Junior School Library

Staff Guide on Issuu:

We hope you find them interesting and helpful. Here is full range of our Library Guides.

Ender’s Game Film Trailer

Mrs Robinson — Wed, 08 May 2013 15:59:21 +0000

Wow! There is a film of one of Mrs Robinson’s favourite ever books, Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card. Anyway, here is the trailer:

We have the book in the Senior School Library – why not give it a try?

For more information about the fabulous Ender’s Game – have a look at this site and access this interview with Orson Scott Card.

Student post: My favourite books #1

Student — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:27:30 +0000

Our Top 50 Authors!

Mrs Robinson — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 16:07:50 +0000

These are our Top 50 Authors

(books borrowed by our students over the last year):

1	Robert Muchamore	26	Clive Gifford
2	Alan Gibbons	27	Sophie McKenzie
3	Anthony Horowitz	28	Rick Riordan
4	Charlie Higson	29	Yamin Ma & Xinying Li
5	Jeff Kinney	30	J K Rowling
6	Michael Morpurgo	31	Chris Bradford
7	Darren Shan	32	Sue Limb
8	Suzanne Collins	33	Pittacus Lore
9	Jacqueline Wilson	34	Julie Bertagna
10	Derek Landy	35	Andy Briggs
11	John Townsend	36	Ally Carter
12	J R R Tolkien	37	Rebecca Lim
13	Philip Reeve	38	Hilary McKay
14	Michael Grant	39	Rosalind Mist & Andrew Solway
15	Paul Strathern	40	Alyson Noel
16	Matt Groening	41	Christopher Paolini
17	Alexander Gordon Smith	42	Helen Reynolds
18	Garth Nix	43	Giles Sparrow
19	Brian Knapp	44	Anne Cassidy
20	Malorie Blackman	45	Sue Penney
21	Anita Ganeri	46	Louis Sachar
22	Veronica Roth	47	Vivienne Sanders
23	M G Harris	48	Cath Senker
24	Lincoln Peirce	49	Kelley Armstrong
25	Mark Walden	50	Rachel Caine

Book Trailers

Mrs Robinson — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:01:10 +0000

Mrs Robinson collects book trailers on our Library Online YouTube Channel. We now have more than 60:

For more ideas about what to read, have a look at our “What to read” page!

40,000 hits!

Mrs Robinson — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:23:47 +0000

Library Online has now reached 40,000 hits since Mrs Robinson started it in the Summer of 2008!

I Like Big Books – Larbert High School

Mrs Robinson — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:06:05 +0000

Great video created by Larbert High school about books, reading and libraries. Lovely to see how the whole school gets involved.

Carnegie Medal and Kate Greenaway Award Shortlists 2013

Mrs Robinson — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:49:57 +0000

They are here, reading fans! The shortlists for the most prestigious prizes in Children’s Literature.

A colleague (see below) has collected the Carnegie Medal shortlist on Pinterest together with a set of videos. Click on the image below:

You can see the full list on the official Carnegie Shadowing site. We also have more information about the Carnegie Medal and past winners on this site. The full Carnegie shortlist has been purchased for the Senior School Library and the Kate Greenaway books are being bought for the Junior School Library.

Carnegie 2013 Pinterest by Ruth Clarke, Learning Resource Centre Manager, St Edward’s College, Liverpool.

Research topics

Mrs Robinson — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 15:08:50 +0000

We have two research topics taking place in the Library during the rest of the Spring Term:

Year 8 Physics: Energy Sources

Year 9 Home Economics: Chinese Food and Culture

Year 8 Physics: Energy Sources

Mrs Robinson has made a Research Guide to help you with this. You can access this at home or at school. Please let Mrs Robinson know if you have any problems with it:

Year 9 Home Economics: Chinese Food and Culture

Mrs Robinson has made a Research Guide to help you with this. You can access this at home or at school. Please let Mrs Robinson know if you have any problems with it:

You can also access these two Research Guides using this widget:

Skeleton confirmed as Richard III

Mrs Robinson — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:23:15 +0000

Exciting news, as the school is in Market Bosworth and so close to Bosworth Field.

It was announced today by a team from the University of Leicester that the skeleton found underneath a Leicester car park is really that of King Richard III.

Mrs Robinson has made a Research Guide on the Battle of Bosworth, Richard III and Henry VII:

More information can be found:

BBC website

The University of Leicester’s Richard III page

Richard III Society

Richard III on Wikipedia