The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
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The Library is celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee with a “royal” display of books and magazines. Have a go at the prize draw quiz for your chance to win a Diamond Jubilee souvenir.

The Library is celebrating the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee with a “royal” display of books and magazines. Have a go at the prize draw quiz for your chance to win a Diamond Jubilee souvenir.
Popular novelist Bali Rai will be visiting the academy library on Monday 30th April. Bali has written many novels about teenage lives in multi-cultural, inner-city Britain. These include “(Un)arranged Marriage”, “Rani and Sukh” and “The Last Taboo”. Bali will be delivering workshops on his GCSE set book “Rani and Sukh” to Y10 classes and during lunch-time he’ll be available to meet other students.
To celebrate World Book Day you can swap your £1 WBD tokens for a FREE book in the Library – hurry while stocks last! The tokens can also be used in exchange for a free WBD book at your local bookshop or use it to get £1 off the full price of a book.
Have a go at the Library’s Design a Bookmark competition and you could win a prize, have your bookmark printed out for distribution in the Library and have it entered into a national competition.
Also make sure your tutor group enters the Library’s World Book Day competition as there’s a prize for the winning group from each year.
Valentine’s Day Poetry competition update
Congratulations to the winners!
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Are you a budding poet? If so pick up an entry form from the Library, compose your poem and hand it in before Wednesday 8th February. You could be a winner!
Prizes to be won!
Chinese New Year – 23rd January 2012 – Year of the Dragon
Free Chinese Fortune Cookies!
To celebrate the Chinese New Year take out any book from the Library from 23rd January and you can claim a free fortune cookie!
Also find out your Chinese birth sign and characteristics on the Library’s Chinese Horoscope chart.