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SJF Library Update

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8th Mar 2020

Please Help Our Library Grow!

Library funding has been restricted in recent years due to the funding issues faced by all schools including ours. We are therefore looking for individuals or businesses interested in sponsoring our library to help us fund its refurbishment. If you are interested please get in touch (enquiries@st-johnfisher.org).

We are also looking for generous families and companies who are interested in helping us to buy books (or who want to donate new or second-hand books to our library) so that we can increase and update the current stock. By supporting us to realise our ambitious plans for the library (either by supporting its refurbishment or through the donation of books) you will leave an important and lasting legacy which will create a library that will be enjoyed not just by pupils today, but also by those who will follow them.

The donation of second-hand books is appreciated, and we very much hope that this will continue. However there are also many amazing brand new titles and books that you might not have or considered and we hope to restock the library with as many of these new titles as possible, in order to ignite our children’s imaginations and give them fresh opportunities to discover new worlds and experience new adventures.

To help guide you towards the titles we are looking for please look at an excerpt of our wish list below. We do not mind if the books are second-hand but we do ask that they are in a good condition.

To show our gratitude and deep appreciation we will display the family/company names of any supporters and donors in the library and inside the cover of any books they give to us.

Below is our wish list, please share and let everyone know that we are looking for these titles specifically and for sponsors too. Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions. Many thanks in advance, here are a few of the titles from our wish list: 

  • The Silly Book of Side Splitting Stuff by Andy Seed
  • A Boy Called Hope by Lara Williamson
  • Illegal by Eoin Colfer
  • The Nowhere Emporium by Ross Mackenzie
  • Time Travelling by Ross Welford
  • Cogheart by Peter Bunzle
  • The Girl of Ink and Stars by Kiran Millwood
  • SeaBEAN by Sarah Holding
  • Eren by P Clark
  • Abomination by Robert Swindells
  • Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden
  • Raspberries on the Yangtze by Karen Wallace
  • The Crowstarver by Dick King Smith
  • Awful End by Philip Ardagh
  • Fruit and Nutcase by Jean Ure
  • Granny by Anthony Horowitz
  • The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien

We are also looking for high quality non-fiction books for children on prehistory (the Stone Age, the Iron Age and the Bronze Age); the Seasons (Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter); and the Aztecs.

For details of other curriculum topic areas, please see our SJF Curriculum Map, which is available via this link: http://www.st-johnfisher.org/curriculum/curriculum-map/. Many thanks for your continuing support.