St Andrew's Cathedral School Library

Mission
The library of St Andrew's Cathedral School seeks to develop in students the skills to become life long independent learners and to ignite and foster a passion for learning and literature.

Hours
The library is open  from 7.45 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 7.45 a.m. to 4.00 p.m on Friday. It is located on Level 6 of St Andrew's House, next to Reception.

Staff

Library Services

For Students

§ Helping to find resources
§ Printing and photocopying facilities
§ Reading lists for fiction and advice about books
§ Access to computers
§ Assistance with bibliographies

For Staff - HOW can we help you?

Cooperative Planning and Teaching

·        Together we can plan, implement and evaluate units of work across the curriculum which incorporate the Research Cycle or  Information Skills Process. Our aim is that students will do at least one of these units across the curriculum each year so that by their senior years they know how to undertake a research task. We find that the units are self paced and provide students with a tight structure for completing research tasks.

·        We can help to design units of work which cater to different learning styles and which use a variety of thinking skills. These are "resource based". They use our wonderful resources, both print and electronic.

·        We can simply show students how to find the resources they need for a particular research task, with the aid of a Data Projector.

We can provide resources, book lists or hotlists of websites on a particular topic and upload these into your AUC class code.

Reading for Pleasure

The Literature Circles program is offered to all Primary classes and all Secondary English classes 7-9 Year (10 optional). The program runs best as a block over two weeks, but we are able to vary it according to your needs.

About four or five books are promoted to the class and students choose one of those to read. They are put into a group with others who have chosen to read the same book. Most of the reading is done at home, but there are opportunities to read in class.

The librarian takes each group in turn for discussion and all students record their reactions to the book for ten minutes at the end of the session. The program therefore involves reading, writing, listening and speaking.

Bookings

To book classes into the library, please phone Elizabeth Greef on Ext 551

To book videos

1.       Fill out a pink video request form and place them in the Video Requests tray behind the circulation desk in the library. These forms are available in the library and in the staff rooms. Priority is given to bookings made in this way.

2.     Email AV Department using the video booking form that has been sent to all teachers. Save the template to desktop.
Open document, fill in the form and send it to Fereshteh.
If you need a new one, we can send one to you.

The AV Department needs 24 hours notice for all video bookings.