Duffield Library Code

The main purpose of the Library is to provide a quiet environment for those who wish to study or read quietly and undisturbed by others. Therefore please be considerate and only come in if you are happy to respect the needs of others and conform to the requirements of the library.

Group work can become noisy and disruptive. Work in pairs may be acceptable as long as nobody else can hear. No more than two people should be working at one computer.

Computers should be used exclusively for work. No games, no Social networking, no e-mail except to collect or send work between school and home.

This means that any essential talk should be conducted in a quiet voice so that only the person spoken to can hear.

Particularly at busy times everyone in the Library should be here to work, read or play chess. It is not a social area.

Mrs Friel is sole arbiter of acceptability of noise levels and behaviour.

If you are asked to leave the library you are expected to go without argument or delay – even if you think it unfair.  

Life is unfair!

All Hallows Read

All Hallows, or Hallowe'en on October 31st is a good day to read a spooky story.

And why not join thousands of people around the globe to give a spooky story to a friend.

All Hallows Read - Neil Gaiman

You could start with Neil's own award-winning The Graveyard Book.

Some more ideas for spooky reading:

Charlie Higson - The Enemy series

M R James - Ghost Stories

Darren Shan - The Vampire's Apprentice, or The Saga of Larten Crepsley series

Joseph Delaney - The Spok's Apprentice series

Edgar Allan Poe - Tales of Mystery and Imagination

I-Spy Competition

To celebrate books and reading on World Book Day - April 23rd - the library is holding another competition.


Members of KEGS Staff have been caught on camera reading a book that they loved when they were in their early teens (for some of us that was a very long time ago).  The photos will be on display near their teaching/work area around the school.


All you have to do to win a prize is spot and identify as many you can and hand a list to Mrs Gray in the Library by the end of Friday 27th April.


Coincidentally two staff members have chosen a book by the best-known authors who were born and died on 23rd April.


As you may not know all the staff by name we've helped to identify both them and the book they are reading on the photo.

Kids' Lit Quiz

I am currently testing our Year 8s to find out who is going to represent KEGS in the Regional round of the Kids' Lit Quiz which will be taking place on Tuesday 15th November. I'm hoping to take two teams this year, and I'm sure everyone will wish them the best of luck.
KLQ website

36582: the journal of a deportee, by Maurice Cordonnier.

Maurice Cordonnier worked for the French Railways, well placed for his other work as a French Resistance saboteur. In April 1944 he was denounced to the Germans and deported to the Neuengamme concentration camp. By some miracle he survived, seeing many of his friends die, and wrote this account of his experiences shortly after his repatriation. This new translation of his book was published this month.

If anyone would like a copy of the book, which sells at £9.99, they can contact me in the library library@kegs.org.uk, or Mrs Hampson in the French department, who is the daughter of Monsieur Cordonnier.

Year 7 Champion Readers

Apologies to the many readers who read their own books or borrow from the Public Library - to select the best readers of the year so far I have simply looked at the library records of borrowing.

The champion readers (so far) are:

7H      Akshayan
7M     David
7S      Anurag
7T      Anderson

Can it be a coincidence that three of them have names beginning with A?  At the end of the year I'll be looking for the Champion of Champions, but this could already be decided - one of the above has already read more than twice Mr Gove's 50 books a year!

Jameel of 7H also deserves a special mention - if he'd been in another form he would also have been a winner, and has also read more than 50 books so far this year.

KEGS' Lit Quiz - Year 7 round

And the winners are .....

7S

Scores were:

7S                 55 points
7T                 52.5 points
7H                 43 points
7M                 32.5 points