The Library

Wychwood School Library is not just a room that houses books. It is a vibrant, organic place of learning, integrated in and supporting the curriculum across the whole school community.

What is the Library like?

There are two rooms; the reference and non-fiction library and a well stocked fiction library, which is growing vigorously. Many thousands of non-fiction books cover both the subjects taught throughout the school, and leisure or outside interests. The fiction library reflects the flourishing trend of children’s literature with a constant flow of new titles many of which have been purchased through student requests.

The Library is stocked with a range of newspapers, namely The Times, ‘i’, The Daily Mail, The Oxford Times and First News; periodicals; brochures; magazines and subject journals. Many of these have been recommended or requested by the various departments and support the curriculum.

We also have a stock of audio books, CD Roms, CDs and DVDs available for loan from the librarian.

There are 20 study spaces for quiet individual study, an area with soft chairs for reading and group discussion. There are two designated areas within the library for computers with four networked terminals connected to laser printers and a high speed WiFi access point for laptop users.

What happens in the Library?

The Library provides resources to support teaching and learning within the school and seeks to promote reading. The Librarian maintains close links with subject departments to ensure that they have relevant book stocks to support subject areas. Teachers may book parts of the library for subject classes coming to the library for research lessons, careers research or individual tutorials. The Librarian is also happy to make up a collection of books in resource boxes, which teachers can use either in the classroom or in the library.

Wychwood girls come to the library to spend their free lessons when they will do homework, research or revision using the facilities as required. The librarian is at hand to provide support and advice if necessary.

The Remove (Year 7) come to the library for a library lesson every week and follow a programme of progressive library and information skills to become familiar with how the library works and how to find information.