Amazon Fire Kindles

Amazon Fire Kindles available for use in the Library.

This shows a selection of what is available to read, choices change regularly!

Welcome to the New Year in The High School Library!

Come up and see our new wall mural in the Library.

Science Week Competition Winners!

Loads of pupils entered the Library Science Week competitions. There were winners for the Word Search, the Crossword and the Guess the Science Object - which was very difficult. Congratulations to all who entered, and to those who won prizes.

Science Week

Science Week competition in the Library. Identify the 10 science-related items in the glass cabinet, and win a great prize. Entry forms available in the Library.

Come and see other fun science objects, as well as quizzes and books!

The High School achieves Wellread National Award

The High School achieved the Wellread National Award, for reading and literacy. This was presented at Citywest Hotel, as part of a PDST awards ceremony. Below are members of the Wellread Committee, as well as winners of last year's Readathon.

Fall into a book for Autumn

 

Fall into a book for the Autumn season. Come up and see the Library's autumn-coloured books and take one out to enjoy!

Space Week

The Library helped to celebrate Space Week, with book and poster displays, quizzes and word searches. Winners were selected at random, from those who handed in a completed quiz or word search. Winners received Mars Bars, Milky Ways and Galaxys!!

Banned Books

September 24 - 30th is Banned Books Week. The Library had a display of some books that were banned worldwide in 2016. Many of these are in The High School Library!

Library Pi Day

New books in the Library

World Book Day

World Book Day Thursday 2nd March  Bring a Book, Buy a Book

 World Book Day is Thursday 2nd March. Come to the Library and take out your favourite book! Free book tokens also available - call to Ms Wiggle and she will give you a book token to take away.

Come up to the Library on World Book Day and join in the "Bring a Book, Buy a Book" - drop in a book you have finished with, and buy a new one for only €2! All monies collected are in aid of St. Michael's House, who provide services for people with intellectual disabilities. You might be able to pick up a bargain!!

MORE new books in the Library

• "Humanism"  - Peter Cave
• "Judaism : the basics" - Jacob Neusner
• "Introduction to Buddhism" - G.K. Gyatso
• "Ethics" - Peter Cave
• Christianity" - Keith Ward
• "Comparative Religion for Dummies" - William P. Lazarus & Mark Sullivan
• "What is Humanism?" - Michael Rosen & Annemarie Young
• "Science & Religion" - Alister E. McGrath
• "The Philosophy Book"
• "A Journey Through Life in Hinduism" - Jane A.C. West, Jay Lakhani, Seeta Lakhani
• "All About Religion" - Aled Jones

         

Readathon

The High School Readathon!

READATHON 2017   

Join in The High School Readathon! Great prizes to be won – open to all Years

Collect your Readathon sheet from the Library to get started

Entries to be in by Friday 7th April

New books for 2017

New Books in the Library

• The Psychology Book
• The Politics Book
• 1001 Ideas That Changed the Way We Think
• Judaism
• 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Islam
• The Holy Qur'an
• Buddhism
• Islam : a very short introduction
• Mindfulness Workbook
• Philosophy in Minutes

Library Christmas Tree

All pupils are invited to create a book themed decoration for the Library Christmas tree. All decorations that are placed on the tree with receive a treat! All welcome to come up to the Library and have a look.

New books in the Library!

The Library has more new books for you to take out.

• Glass Sword                                          V. Aveyard
• Red Queen                                             V. Aveyard
• After Tomorrow                                     G. Cross
• The Red Pyramid                                   R. Riordan
• The Road of Bones                                A. Fine
• Hero                                                        P. Moore
• The Knife of Never Letting Go              P. Ness
• I'd Tell You I Love You.....                     A, Carter
• Between Shades of Gray                        R. Sepetys
• Night Rise                                              A. Horowitz
• All The Truth That's In Me                    J. Berry
• The Disreputable History of Frankie...  E. Lockhart
• Just Listen                                              S. Dessen
• Ready Player One                                  E. Cline
• 2 Boys Kissing                                       D. Levithan
• Ice Cream Star                                        S. Newman
• Duff                                                        K. Keplinger

Please feel free to come up to the Library and take one out.

Science Week

Science Week

Science Week was celebrated in The High School from the 13th to 20th November. The Library ran a "Guess the Science Objects" competition. This was won by Stepan Letsko 2RW. Congratulations to Stepan!

Banned Book Week September 25th - October 1st

Do you dare to take out a banned book?

Come into the Library and see what banned books are there for you to read - are you brave enough?

European Day of Languages

The European Day of Languages was celebrated in the Library on Monday 26th September.  We had quizzes in French and word searches in German.

The Library also hosted a collection of international dolls, and there was a quiz to see which dolls were European.