YOUR Library in the Sixth Form

Information, support and space to help 

• A wide range of relevant and up to date resources (print and online) to support your studies and leisure reading, including fiction (extensive selection of YA (Young Adult) and Fiction+ reads), information books, magazines, DVDs, CDs, e-books, maps, playscripts, and subscriptions to online sources targeted at Sixth Form study.

• Resources in the Sixth Form Collection specific to your KS5 courses - textbooks you're using in class, additional textbooks, wider reading around the topics you're studying to enrich your knowledge and understanding, study guides and revision guides. Evidence of wider reading sets you above other students and helps you to gain extra marks and therefore potentially higher grades.

• Help and support for your learning, answers to your enquiries and help with your research needs throughout the day from 8.30am until 4.30pm (3.15pm on Fridays) from a qualified, chartered librarian.

• Helpsheets, pathfinders and guides to help you get the best out of your Library, and to help you with your independent learning. Topics covered include referencing, avoiding plagiarism, using Accessit, YHT's Library Web App, as well as pathfinders specific to topics or texts you are studying (for example: Gothic writing pathfinder; King Lear pathfinder etc)

• Extensive opening hours – we are open before school from 8.30am, and throughout the day, including breaks, and after school until 4.30pm.

• Plenty of fantastic 'readaxation' [Nicola Morgan’s word] books to give you that vital escape from study and exam pressures - you deserve it and need it! Check out the wide selection of YA (Young Adult) and Fiction+ reads.

• Laptops and desktop computers which you can book to use when studying in the Library.

• Printing and photocopying facilities.

• Book Recommendations / Suggestions– If there’s a book you’d really like to see in the Library, just fill in a suggestions slip and place it in the Suggestions Box in the Library. We’ll do our best to purchase it for you and will let you know when it arrives. Suggestions are welcome by email too - just email Mrs Smith giving as much information as you can about what you're requesting. 

• If you have any queries, suggestions or need help when using the Library, please just ask Mrs Smith, the Librarian, and she’d be pleased to help and support you with your learning.