Visit of Philip Reeve
To tie in with the Literacy week in the Junior School (November 24th - 28th) the Lower School library is organising a number of lunchtime talks including on Wednesday 26th an opportunity to meet the Carnegie Medal winning author, Philip Reeve.
Celebrating Black History Month, 2008
The Lower School Library has invested in lots of interesting books and has an informative and attractive display. This was put up for Black History month in October, however, the display incorporates information and pictures of people making history including our own Dulwich boys. The recent successes of both Lewis Hamilton and Senator Barack Obama are both celebrated here in the Lower School Library. See how much you know by taking the Black History Month Quiz.
Help us celebrate Red Nose Day on 16th March.
The Lower School Library are running a competition to help raise money for this most enjoyable of charity events - Red Nose Day.
Everyone in the Lower School will be encouraged to join starting at the assembly on Monday 12th March. All week the Libary will be selling red nose entry forms for the joke competition.
The best joke will receive a prize of £10.
WORLD BOOK DAY, 1 March 2007
In the Library boys attempted to solve a ‘ murder' following clues based on the Dewey classification system. All boys borrowing books or taking part in the competition got a free bookmark, one of 13 designs by Lower School boys. Despite the sunshine outside the library was even more bustling than usual, and competition to be first to solve the mystery was fierce... There were two winning teams:
1. Peter Georgiou 7C, Carlos Cortiglia 7C, Josh Castola 7C and Sam Bassi 7W.
2. Marco Alessi and Alex Coburn Davis from 8R.
Lent Term 2007 - Issue Number 19, the Green Issue
This interesting and topical paper has some wonderful items to entertain and inform you.
The Dulwich Despatch is the paper of the Lower School and all pupils are encouraged to contribute.
Please give your entry to Mrs Rowing or Mrs Bottomley in good time for the next issue.
Available in the Lower School Library NOW!
Only 20p - go on, give one to all your friends and make the world a greener place.
Proceeds to Sydenham Garden - a growing community
Mrs Rowing, 26/01/2007
Nicola spoke to a large audience in the Lower School Library yesterday lunch-time. She talked about how it had taken her 21 years to get a book published. She also talked about how she came across the ideas for her novels.
In the afternoon Nicola spoke to staff in the Masters' Library on the subject of the teenage brain, based on her research into her book 'Blame my brain'.
We have copies of her books for sale - available from the Lower School Library.
• Fleshmarket
• Sleepwalking
• The Passionflower Massacre
• Mondays are Red
• The Highwayman's Footsteps (NEW! - Just published)
For more information about Nicola Morgan and her books, please visit: www.nicolamorgan.co.uk
Mrs L. York, 16/11/2006
The comfy chairs have been replaced. To enable them to last several years, we need you to keep your feet off them and by not eating or drinking in the area. Many thanks.
Mrs L. York, 11/10/2006
Poetry was read by boys and staff in the Library at lunch-time today to celebrate National Poetry Day which is tomorrow.
Mrs L. York, 4/10/2006
The booklet of series fiction in the Lower School Library has just been revised and updated. It also includes a wonderful new 'dragon' cover designed by Luke Gbedemah, 7S. Please come and take one.
Mrs L. York June 2006
The Library hosted a successful Carnegie Medal Balloon Debate and had books for sale.
Mrs L. York June 2006
The Book and Breakfast club are shadowing the Carnegie Medal this year for more information go to our Carnegie Webpage.
Mrs L. York, May 2006
You may have noticed that books on the display racks have now got very bright yellow letter stickers on their spines.
The fiction and non-fiction ones have been divided into their different series, so for example you can find all the 'Horrible Histories's books together or the 'Star Wars' books together on the shelf. The Short stories also have these stickers so that they get shelved back on the rack and not in the main fiction sequence. Graphic novels live on the rack on the wall. If you want to find out more, there is a chart explaining all the locations on the side of the shelving trolley.
Mrs L. York, May 2006
The lower School Library celebrated World Book Day with its annual 'Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?' competition. There was lots of lively debate amongst boys, as to who the mystery dinner guests were. Congratulations to Nalin Patel, 8C who won the chocolatey prize!
See if you can guess who the dinner guests are...
There are five men and one woman. All are well-known literary characters from novels.
Clues: A typewriter, an African dress and beads, a white van and a box of 'Redbush Tea'.
Clues: A pouch full of Victorian pennies and some humbugs.
Clues: A leather jacket, a rose and a sign with the words 'Badwolf Corporation'.
Clues: A t-shirt with a CHERUB slogan, a book about Arsenal and a book of 'puzzles for the high IQ'.
Clues: A bottle of brown ale, a chinese takeaway meal (numbers 27 and 53) and an owl.
Clues: Some vampire teeth and a caged venomous spider (not actually real!).
Here are some boys enjoying the competition:
Correct answers
Mrs L. York 03/03/2006
We were lucky enough to be able to welcome author Marcus Sedgwick to Dulwich College on World Book Day. Marcus has written a number of very successful novels: Floodland (2002) which won the Branford-Boase award for 'Best Children's Debut Novel'; Witch Hill (2001) which was nominated for an 'Edgar Allen Poe Award', the 'Independent Reading Association Award' and the 'Portsmouth Book Award'; The Dark Horse (2002) which was shortlisted for the 'Guardian Children's Fiction Prize', the 'Carnegie Medal' and the 'Blue Peter Book Award'; The book of Dead Days (2003); The Dark Flight Down (2004) and The Foreshadowing (2005).
Marcus gave Year 6, 7 & 8 boys a talk in the Old Library during lunchtime where he demonstrated how much time and effort was involved in publishing a book, especially before a word of the manuscript is even written.
He engaged the audience by showing copies of his original plans and manuscripts. He answered questions and signed copies of his books.
Later that afternoon Marcus hosted an English lesson with 7R in the Lower School Library. 7R were involved in developing characters, locations and themes with Marcus. They then had to spend ten minutes writing a story.
Some of these were read aloud to the class and were met with applause. Marcus also introduced 7R to his next book entitled My Swordhand is Singing (2007) which takes inspiration from 17th century vampire legends. The class was also informed that Marcus drew his own illustrations for his novels. They discovered that his original pencil drawings were scanned and then had digital effects applied to them to give them their unique style.
Many thanks to Marcus Sedgwick for giving us really interesting and entertaining talks on World Book Day.
For more information about Marcus Sedgwick and his books, visit his website www.marcussedgwick.com
Mrs L. York 03 March 2006
Popular Horror writer, Darren Shan, visited Dulwich College on Thursday 26 January. Although the session in the Edward Alleyn Theatre clashed with Lower School House Music, the crowd of thirty to forty, very enthusiastic, fans had a chance to ask numerous questions about the 'Saga of Darren Shan' and 'Demonata' series. Darren Shan read extracts from forthcoming novels in the series to whet the boys' appetites. Darren Shan signed copies of his books before his talk.
Mrs L. York 31 January 2006
The Lower School Library is going to be running a Readathon (sponsored read) during half term and two weeks into the second half of this term to raise money for the Roald Dahl Foundation and for CLIC Sargent: 'Caring for Children with Cancer'. Boys will receive a sponsorship card as well as information sheet and a bookmark in a mailshot next week.
All money raised should be brought in to the Library by Friday 11th November 2005.
More information about Readathon can be found at: [www.readathon.org]
MONEY RAISED SO FAR.....
10/11/2005 £753.66
LAST YEAR'S TOTAL TO BEAT.....
£1,164.20
Mrs L. York 22 November 2006
A mailing will be sent home next week which will include a Scholastic 'Cover 2 Cover' catalogue. Any books which are ordered will allow the Library to get FREE books. If your family is interested in ordering books for the home library or for Christmas presents, please let Mrs York have your orders and cheques (made payable to Dulwich College) by Friday 4th November.
UPDATE
Thank you to those of you who ordered books. Your orders came to £232.66, which will allow us to order £116 worth of new books on the next order. This order also gets th library £10 of books free plus 10 free titles from a supplied list. When your orders arrive you will be contacted so you can collect your books from the Library.
Mrs L. York 07 October 2005
This week is National Children's Book Week. On Wenesday Dulwich College welcomed new author Robert Muchamore to sign books and speak to the boys in the Edward Alleyn Theatre during lunch-break. 8C and 8E were lucky enough to have their own private session in the Lower School Library with Robert Muchamore and many great questions were asked. Robert told us all about how he was demotivated to write when he was younger and put it the idea of being an author on the back burner. It wasn't until his holiday in Australia, and a particularly unyielding trip to his nephew's local bookstore, that he was encouraged to start writing again.
For more details about his books and information about the CHERUB campus please visit:
Today The Lower School and Junior School Libraries held a raffle for three grey CHERUB T-shirts.
The winners were:
Freddie Pearce, 7L
Victor Hwang, 8L
Connor McDermott, 5K
Mrs Bottomley will present the T-shirts during Monday assembly.
All proceeds will be donated to the charity of Robert Muchamore's choice.
Mrs L. York 07 October 2005
The library is currently hosting a lesson during the Academic Fun Day. This is when boys from other schools come and spend a day at Dulwich College to see whet we are like! The session in the Library involves a fun 'Reading Game' where the boys decide which books, from a selection, have the 'best cover', the 'best blurb' and the 'best beginning'. Organised into genre (adventure, fantasy, sport, history, horror, sci-fi, crime and comedy) the boys have three minutes to judge the books before the whistle blows and they move on to the next genre.
The invited schools are: Rosemead Preparatory School, Hornsby House School, Virgo Fidelis Preparatory School, St. Christopher's Preparatory School and others.
Over the summer the Lower School Library has had a fixed projector and an interactive whiteboard fitted. This should hopefully improve our 'Information Skills' lessons and any other lessons which are taught in the Library.
Mrs L. York 07 October 2005
You can download your very own copy of the Lower School Library Newsletter below.
[Download LSL Newsletter - Issue 6]
On Wednesday 15th June the Junior and Lower Schools hosted another author visit.
The afternoon saw boys and staff enjoying a performance in the Lower School Library by 'seriously funny' writing duo:
Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore.
The '2 Steves' (as they are more famously known) have published various books inlcluding the 'Vernon Bright' series and the 'Tales of the Dark Forest' series.
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