RGS Library

Happy Lunar New Year! Come and see some of the books on display in the Library.

Thank you to Chris Bradford @YoungSamurai for a highly-entertaining visit. RGS students got the chance to talk to Chris about his Young Samurai and Gamer series of books. Our fourth form media students interviewed Chris for The Castle magazine.

Readcycle and find out more at books2africa.org/about/

.@Books2Africa's aim is to "readcycle" one million books within the UK every year and distribute them across the 54 countries in Africa. The RGS Library sent 320 books on Friday to help this charity equip libraries, academic institutions and communities.

Who killed Julius Caesar and why? There's still time to enter the Classics Department's Ides of March Competition and follow the trail of QR codes around the Library and Harrison Centre.

Great to see books flying off the display as students celebrate International Women's Day #InternationalWomensDay2022

Our Second Formers will be enjoying a blind date with a book in celebration of #ValentinesDay

We're celebrating @LunarNewYear @yearofthetiger

Congratulations to @hannahlowepoet winner of the 2021 Costa book of the year for her uplifting book of sonnets about students.

Our school librarians and library club have been busy working on our Christmas displays. "There's snow greater thing than a book!" #schoollibrarydisplay

Thank you to @tompalmerauthor for a fantastic virtual visit during library club today. The First and Second Formers loved the Q&A session.

Our First and Second Formers loved the roarsome virtual chat and Q&A with @pennychrimes author of 'Tiger Heart' during lunch time library club today.

Our next parents' book club novel is the magnificent #Bewilderment by Richard Powers. Enjoy! We next will meet in January - look out for dates in the bulletin.

Today marks the start of #AntiBullyingWeek Visit our wellness collection on the #ePlatform for resources on bullying.

#2021BookerPrize has been announced. Congratulations to #DamonGalgut for his prize-winning novel, The Promise.