The Library

The Library at Royds School is a busy place:

Clubs and Activities
Accelerated Reader for groups and individuals
14-19 Book Club
Reading for Stage and Screen
Writers' Club
Literacy Activities : Library Club After School
6th Form Services: preparing for Higher Education:
How to do an Advanced Literature Search : Information Literacy
How to write an Abstract
Help with Structuring Assignments, Bibliographies and Referencing.
Careers and Information Provision:
Information Advice and Guidance
Prospectuses for Further and Higher Education
Summer Programme
Programme of activities
Library Leisure
Scrabble Tournament
Chess League

Royds Library Opening Times

	8.00 - 1.00pm	1.00 - 2.35pm	2.35 - 4.00pm
Monday	Open	Open	Open
Tuesday	Open	Open	Open
Wednesday	Open	Open	Open
Thursday	Open	Open	Open
Friday	Open	Open	Open

Library Timetable - Click Here

Summer Programme 2012

The Library Summer Programme welcomes authors, storytellers, scriptwriters, politicians, musicians and dancers once again this year when the school library becomes a social, cultural and intellectual hub.

Back by popular demand is TV’s Waterloo Road scriptwriter, Philip Dodds, who will be helping prospective Royds students make the transition from primary to secondary school as they participate in some fun workshops in the library on June 25th. This year the Waterloo Road scriptwriter will be helping Key Stage 3 students create characters for the purpose of devising and performing a scene.

New to the Summer programme this time is a group of pupils who are members of the Library’s Readers for Stage and Screen Group. They will be performing ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’ adapted from Roald Dahl’s short story by the same name. The prospective actors and actresses first heard Dahl’s Tale of the Unexpected’ during the Drop Everything and Read Day (DEAR Day) at Royds School. For the event, which is about promoting reading for Literacy, all students and staff spent the first 15 minutes of every lesson reading the same short story. The students enjoyed the event so much, which is not surprising. They found the story gripping because Dahl manifests in his adult tales that he is a master of suspense.

Lamb to the Slaughter

View the latest dress rehearsal photos from the Library Summer programme Event "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl.

Creative Writing

View the photos from the creative writing workshop, led by the author Martyn Bedford and Miss Corrigan with gifted and talented students, as part of the library summer programme. Also included are some photos of an open forum lunch time Q&A session.

Miss Tomkins-stories from Kenya

ESOL

ESOL in the library (English for Speakers of Other Languages)

For non –native speakers of English who are new to Royds and need to improve their skills in English in order to access the curriculum, the librarian can offer a diagnostic in the form of a Miscue Analysis. This can help us identify whether miscues in English are syntactic (to do with grammar); semantic (to do with eliciting meaning) or phono-graphic to do with decoding words, including spelling and pronunciation.
Once we have identified the miscues the librarian can create an individual learning plan for the student which caters for the individual’s specific learning needs.

Writer's Corner

Website by

Royds School

Liverpool's Player of the Season - D Daykin

I want to be Free - A poem by T Thompson

The Library is subscribing to The Day. This is an online, current affairs and News information resource linked to areas of the National Curriculum. For example, under 'Science' students can be updated by articles on Higgs Boson. Click on the logo above to go to the site.

MP for Rothwell and Elmet, Alec Shelbrooke, tutors Royds School students on how to run an effective debate.....

On the eve of the General Election in June 2010, Alec Shelbrooke, MP for Rothwell and Elmet, took time out from the ‘Corridors of Power’ in London to join Royds School Library students in a political debate: Should we vote Labour or Conservative? This was a heated discussion between Royds and the Conservative MP, in which Alec admitted he had to take his hat off to our students who demonstrated good debating skills; listening to each other and respecting others’ views, even where they were in opposition to his/her own.
Since the General Election, Alec has made an annual visit to Royds to encourage discussion over issues which affect staff and students and their community.
In spite of some differences in political hues, Alec says he has admiration for the ways in which Royds School willingly share and exchange views. The opportunity to debate in a civilised way with people who hold very different belief systems from one’s own is a powerful learning tool and is one of the privileges of a democratic society.
On 8th February this year, immediately following the marriage debate in the House of Commons, Alec made his annual visit to the school Library to lead a workshop on ‘how to run effective debating skills’ for Key Stage 3 and 4 students.
The main topic for discussion was something very close to Alec’s heart; that is his Welfare Cash Card Bill 2012/13 which will have its 2nd Reading at the House of Commons on 1st March. The philosophical argument put forward by Alec was for students to consider whether government benefits given to people who are out of work should be spent only on essentials such as food and fuel; exempting claimants from spending their handouts on alcohol, tobacco and gambling.
The unanimous feeling re the proposal was one of disagreement, initially. After discussions in which staff and students put forward arguments and counter-arguments, however, the vote shifted from unanimous disagreement to more than 50% of staff and students changing their minds over the Welfare Cash Card. This shift in opinion highlighted the powerful effect that debating skills could have on Learning in general, especially where the debates are conducted in a civilised manner and student and staff listen actively to each other while showing respect for their peers and colleagues.

Rita Lister, School Librarian and Literacy Specialist

Downloads

Summer Programme 2012

Accelerated Read Programme

Letter to Library Club Parents

Superstar Reading & Dance Activities

About Royds Easter and Summer Literacy School