The School Library and Resources Centre
The Melvin Library is purpose built to provide the school with an outstanding range of learning resources. It can accommodate over 100 students for quiet study and offers extensive computer and wifi facilities.
There are over 20,000 borrowable items including books, DVDs, audio books and multi-media equipment. Students can access national daily newspapers, popular magazines and journals and enjoy a wide range of fiction material.
We have thousands of fiction titles covering all genres and students can relax on soft seating in the reading zone. There are over 12,000 non-fiction titles in the study zone covering all areas of the curriculum and these are continually updated.
We are also able to loan multimedia equipment including still and video cameras and voice recorders.
| Opening hours: Monday – Thursday 8.30am to 4.30pm Friday 8.30am – 4.00pm The library is staffed by two full time librarians. |
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Keep up to date with what’s new in the library
Downloadable Documents (PDF unless otherwise stated).
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New Fiction in the Library November 2019New Non Fiction October-November 2019
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Here are some interesting competitions you may want to check out.
BBC Young Writers Award – launching January 2020
https://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/opportunities/nssa-ywa
Wicked Young Writers Award
https://www.wickedyoungwriterawards.com/
Royal Literature Society
https://rsliterature.org/2019/06/a-room-of-my-own-competition/
Young Walter Scott’s Prize
http://www.walterscottprize.co.uk/young-walter-scott-prize/
Author of Tomorrow (Adventure Writing)
https://www.wilbur-niso-smithfoundation.org/index.php/awards/author-of-tomorrow
Poetry
Chaucer Heritage Trust
http://chaucer.org.uk/writing-competition/
Foyle Young Poet Award
https://foyleyoungpoets.org/
Eastside’s Spoken Word Poetry Competition
https://www.eastside.org.uk/i-know-i-wish-i-will/