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=**__Learning Resource Centre @ Heartlands Academy__**=


 * //'Liber Liberem'// - Reading can set you free[[image:DSC_0021.JPG width="224" height="237" align="right" caption="LRC "]]**

The Library should form an important part of your studies at school - from reading fiction to finding non-fiction books to help you with research and knowledge in other subjects across the curriculum. Wider reading is vital to the devlopment of pupils.

What do you think about literacy at the school? Take the survey by clicking on the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/HeartlandsSurvey


 * __E-Book Library__**

You can also download and read a range of E-books by visiting the department's E-Book Library! You can read these on your PC, Nintendo DS Lite or even your mobile phone!

Once you have read a fiction book, download, print and complete a 'Book Review'. Hand it in to your English teacher and they will keep it safe in your achievement folder (SAP). There are prizes for the **'Most Committed Reader of The Term'** and each year group has a **'Reading Champion'** profile on our display! Each person to attain the status of 'Reading Champion' each term receives a £10 WHSMITH's voucher at the end of that term and their profile on display for the entire next half term. So **get reading** and **get reviewing**: Download a Book Review form now and hand it in at the LRC:



**__First News Student Newspaper__**

The First News newspaper is now available in the LRC. This weekly paper contains articles on news, sport, showbiz and the environment as well as weird, wacky and wonderful stories from across the world. The best thing is - it is written by secondary school students FOR secondary school students. **Pick up a copy in the LRC today!**

Find out more about First News by clicking on the link or visiting [|www.firstnews.co.uk]


 * __Liber Liberem Book Club__**

The Library runs a book clubs throughout the year. In January we had a "KS3 Dares" book club, which was aimed at all KS3 pupils(Years 7-9). It meets fortnightly on Tuesdays from 3.10 - 4.00 in the Library. Pupils are welcome to attend and discuss the book they are reading with others in an informal session, while staff will also attend each week to share their current book with students. Students will be able to get recommendations from each other and from staff too!


 * __KS3 Chills__**

[|KS3 Chills Book Award]

Some pupils also had the pleasure of shadowing the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards. There will be a similar event going on some time next year. The winner of the Carnegie award was Philip Reeve,author of "Here Lies Arthur". The winner of the Kate Greenaway award was Emily Gravett.

__**World Book Day**__

Hope everyone enjoyed the books they bought on world book day. Stay alert for more information on the next world book day in 2009! All students will be receiving a book token for World Book Day via their tutors, which they can either exchange for one of the books selected for WBD, or use as £1 towards a book of their choice at any bookshop. Borders, Waterstones and WHS are all accepting the vouchers.

[|World Book Day information]

__**Developing your reading**__ There are also a number of websites to help you chose books and develop your reading skills - whatever your reading ability. For more able readers, try [|Bookheads]. This websites enables you to tell the world which are your favourite books. For all abilities [|Cool Reads] is a website set up by a couple of boys. It's a tell it like it is reviewing site for 10 - 15 year olds. [|Achuka] is an independent Childrens Books site that has something for everyone.

See also the websites for the [|Booktrust Teenage Fiction Award], and the [|Carnegie Medal Award website].

If poetry is your thing, take a look at [|Poetry Zone]. It has interviews, competitions and links to other poetry sites.


 * __Birmingham Libraries__**

Remember, you can always get hold of a lot more books in your local community library. The biggest one is in [|Birmingham Central Library], on the ground floor, but there are also libraries at Bloomsbury and Small Heath for example. [|Community Libraries information] will give you details of your local library and how to join!

It's free to join, and if a book isn't on the shelf, you can always reserve it, and it should be with you within a week. Check the [|Library Catalogue] and search for books, CDs, and even DVDs!