Library

The School Library is based on two floors at the front entrance to the School. It shares its site and facilities with Seaton Valley Community Library, and is run by Dr Richardson (School Librarian) and Mrs Lawton (School Library Assistant). We are open to members of the school as follows:

Monday 9.00-7.00
Tuesday 9.00-4.30
Wednesday 9.00-7.00
Thursday 9.00-4.30
Friday 9.00-5.00
Saturday 10.00-12.30

The hours for the community are slightly different:

Monday 9.30-12.30; 1.30-7.00
Tuesday CLOSED
Wednesday 9.30-12.30; 1.30-7.00
Thursday CLOSED
Friday 9.30-12.30; 1.30-5.00
Saturday 10.00-12.30

During the school day, Sixth Form students may work in the Library at any time. Pupils in Years 9, 10 and 11 may visit the Library at morning break (through the entrance upstairs only) or during lesson time with their teacher’s consent. If you have permission to use the Library during lesson time, you must have your diary signed by your teacher.

Students can also use the Library at lunchtimes. To visit us during Periods 5, 6 or 7 you need the correct pass. These are issued upstairs by staff during morning break. But you need to be quick - a maximum of only 20 passes are given out for each of the three periods.

The Library has a wide range of resources available for all ages and abilities.

As well as having over 15,000 books on site (the majority of which can be borrowed for 3 weeks), the Library is able to offer for loan a selection of Infomagz (for 1 week) and (at a reasonable charge) a good range of videos/DVDs (for 1 week) and CDs (for 2 weeks).

The loan charges are as follows:

CDs: 80p
DVDs: £1.60
General Film Videos: £1.10
Feature Film Videos: £1.60

We also take delivery of three daily newspapers (Journal, Guardian and Daily Telegraph).

The newspapers, magazines, videos, DVDs and CDs are all kept downstairs.

Members of the Library can borrow up to 20 items from any of Northumberland County Council’s libraries. However, please remember to return any item that you borrow by the due date otherwise you may incur fines at the following rates:

Books/Magazines: 9p per day
CDs: 40p per week/part week DVDs and Videos: Full rental charge per week/part week