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Sherborne Girls take extreme reading to new heights
Book-mad students and staff from Sherborne Girls in Dorset are taking part in a campaign to promote reading outside the classroom by taking photographs of themselves reading in the wackiest and unlikeliest of places. From waterfalls to science labs, hay bales to laundry rooms, the girls have demonstrated that when it comes to reading, nowhere is off limits. “The campaign is one of several
we’ve launched to create a real buzz around the library and ensure it is a lively and vibrant place for both staff and students,” says school librarian Rachel Knight. “Extreme reading will encourage a love of books across the whole school community and boost our already flourishing culture of reading here at Sherborne Girls.” Says headmistress Jenny Dwyer: “Extreme reading is a really fun and
imaginative way to broaden reading and the girls have certainly risen to the challenge to see who can be the most daredevil. But it also serves to underline
an important point that reading lies at the very heart of our school and is something that we encourage among our students every day.”
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www.sherborne.com Rachel Knight also writes a blog htp://
sherbornegirlslibrary.wordpress.com/
St Albans School gives historians a glimpse of its past with the click of a mouse
Thousands of pages of St Albans School magazines, some dating back to the 1890s, have been digitised and uploaded on to a new website that will soon be accessible to all Old Albanians (OAs) and local historians. The task, which was undertaken for the school by Horsham-based SDS Specialist Solutions, has involved the scanning and digital enhancement of more than 10,000 pages of content, enabling researchers to view the magazines online and search for specific articles by name, date, title etc. The Albanian was first published intermitently in 1892 and then from 1902 onwards an issue was published at the end of each term. From 1960 onwards the frequency reduced, but the pagination of each issue increased significantly. OA David Larkman, who left the
School in 1966, recently donated a number of old copies of the magazine to the archive, and was thrilled to search the site for news and photographs of his uncle who had atended the school in the 1930s and was killed in the war. David was helped in the task by another OA, Michael Hollins, who has been working on the archive since 2010: “I was able to trace several mentions of David and found the photo of his uncle,” he says. David adds: “I was often in trouble with the prefects; hence a leter to the magazine complaining about the system and their power, which wasn't very well received if I recall. It is fantastic to know that any old boy can search through all of the Old Albanian magazines and get a snapshot of life at the school from any year, with just a click of a mouse.”
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