School Librarian of the Year Award

I am delighted to post that I am on the Honours list for the School Library Association School Librarian of the Year Award 2010.

To see my profile http://www.sla.org.uk/slya-2010-rebecca-jones.php.

The announcement of the winner will be on Monday October 4th 2010.

Year 6 Independent Learning Challenge

Year 6 pupils will be starting their Independent Learning Challenge this week.

This challenge is an opportunity foreach pupil to undertake some research and perhaps practical tasks based on a subject/idea/topic that they are interested in.

Each pupil has to choose a topic or subject that inspires them. They then have to decide what they want to find out about or do. Each pupil is encouraged to include some research as well as a practical element. For example if you are interested in learning more about dog training, your challenge could then consist of some research into dog behaviour, your dog training lessons and then a record of how your training actually went. The most important part of the challenge is deciding what you want to do!

Our first session is all about thinking! Thinking about the currciulum, what you have to study at school and the things that you want to learn about.

Expressive Arts Days

The school will be running a series of days packed with activities for Year 7 and 8 pupils all to do with the Expressive Arts. There will be stage fighting, musical theatre, mask work, belly dancing and much much more.

The event kicks off on Friday and the Library is going to be involved with helping the students to record their experiences using ICT.

This means setting up space on the school VLE to allow for discussions and the posting of photographs as well as setting up video cameras for Vox Pops and interviews.

It should be a great few days - with the Open Morning in the middle of it all on Saturday.

Normandy

Year 7 Geography students have just successfully completed a research project comparing Mavlern with Normandy. Pupils were placed into groups to research different aspects of the area including the Beaches, Places of Interest, Food and Drink and the History of the area.

The task required them to create an advert to entice Malvern residents to visit France. The pupils learned how to record their commentry using Audacity and add it to their slides. The resulting presentations were then shown to the class.

There was some memorable information about Cheese, the Giverny gardens, the D-Day landing beaches and the Norman conquest.

World Book Day, March 5th

For World Book Day this year we have created a Scavenger Hunt for the whole school to enjoy.



There are 12 questions for pupils to answer and members of staff are wearing badges with the answers on and roaming the school.

Pupils can win prizes for their "Ship" and also for themselves.

Let the Hunt Begin!

Open Morning

MSJ had an Open Morning at the weekend (Sat feb 28th). The library hosted the English Department and was filled with displays of pupils work, class podcasts and a DVD of presentations that were undertaked for Communication Studies.

The library attracted lots of visitors who apprecaited the displays we had up of pupil work and our main display on Barack Obama.

There was a good atmosphere and the sun was shining. We even had some daffodils on the desk, courtesy of the Assistant Librarian.

Get the Plot!

Pride and Prejudice newsfeed style.

If you like the book or want a quick overview of the main storyline - this Newsfeed style version of Jane Austen's novel is just the thing for you and starts like this:

Charles Bingley is renting a house in Hertfordshire!
Mrs. Bennet became a fan of Charles Bingley.
Kitty Bennet can't stop coughing!!!
Charles Bingley is now friends with Mr. Bennet and Sir William Lucas.
11 of your friends are attending Assembly at Meryton.

Find the whole story at http://www.much-ado.net/austenbook/