LIBRARY PREFECT PICKS

BY ISABEL CONNOLLY

1. The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood: The Love Hypothesis is a surprising, hilarious and love-filled book with joy on every page.

Olive Smith, a third year Ph.D candidate doesn’t believe in a long lasting romantic relationship. Her best friend, Ahn, is the complete opposite. To get Ahn off her back, Olive kisses the first man she finds. That just happens to by the young, hotshot professor, Adam Carlsen, who is a well-known ass. The two plan to keep up the “relationship” charade however, Olive’s feeling have other plans.

2. A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard: A Quiet Kind of Thunder is a sweet and heart-touching book. It stars a young girl, Steffi, has selective mutism and only speaks to her friends. She felt so completely alone for so long that she feels invisible. That is until a deaf boy, Rhys, joins her school. Having had selective mutism, she had to learn sign languages to communicate. She is the only person who can communicate to Rhys. Around Rhys, Steffi feels that she has a voice and feeling soon emerge.

3. Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover:

When Tate Collins meets the airline pilot Miles Archer, she knows it is not love at first sight. The only this they have in common is the mutual attraction towards one another. Once they are both aware of each other’s feeling, they realise it is the perfect set-up. He doesn’t want love, she has no time for love so that only leaves one thing. They think they can handle it, but they soon realise they can’t. Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.

4. The Wedding Crasher by Mia

Sosa:

Weeks before ditching DC for greener pastures, Solange Pereira agrees to help her wedding planner cousin on a random couple’s big day. It’s an easy gig, until she finds out that the couple aren’t meant to be. So what’s the only thing one would do in that situation? Crash the wedding!

5. Fake it Till you Bake it by Jamie

Wesley:

Fake it Till you Bake it is a sweet confection story about Jada TownsendMatthews, the most reviled woman in America after turning down a proposal on a reality dating show. After returning home, she lands a job in a cupcake bakery, owned by an uptight professional football player, Donovan Dell. After a reporter mistakenly take the two as a couple, they both agree to keep the charade up to gain more business for the bakery. Faking a relationship should be simple, but sometimes love is the most unexpected ingredient.

By Isabel Connolly

Did you know that the number one source of waste in school is food?

Well here at NBCompost, we are trying to limit that!

NBCompost is a Young Environmentalist Award entered by myself and three other second year girls.

NBCompost is an initiative to introduce compost bins into our school. We have placed our compost bins in the refectory, social area, and the staffroom within our school grounds so that they are available for everyone.

We noticed that there were no compost bins available for use in our school, imagine that! All the food waste in our school was ending up in general waste and recycling bins. Now, food ending up in the general waste bins is not ideal, but it is not the end of the world. However, the second anything that is not recyclable goes into a recycling bin, the whole bin becomes contaminated and can no longer be recycled.

We completed a survey of the bins in Junior House, which is where most students spend most of their time. We looked to see how much food waste was in the bins. We found that there were 24 general waste bins and 20 recycling bins. 20 of the general waste bins contained food waste and 6 of the recycling bins did as well. The NCP

After the compost bins were introduced, we retook the survey and were incredibly pleased with the results. The new survey showed that only 7 general waste bins and 3 recycling bins were now contaminated.

To help us understand what we should do to get our school to partake in using the bins correctly, we spoke to the head of Green Schools in our school. He showed us how he does his assemblies and gave us tips about where the best place would be to put our compost bins. He also helped us get the bins and contact the bin company. Next, we got some bins, which were provided by the staff, and we painted them brown. Once they were dry, we placed them in the refectory, social area, and staffroom.

Once the bins were in the school, our plan was in action! We spoke to the different year groups at assemblies about our bins and why they are so important. We informed them about what can and cannot be put into the compost bins. During these assemblies, we realised that few students would listen to a group of second year girls, so we added a small game at the end with a prize of sweets. We then placed an informative piece about the bins into the morning notices which are read out to every class every morning. This ensured that, even if somebody had missed the assemblies, they still got to hear about the bins!

We ensured that teachers and students continued to hear about the bins to remind them to use them correctly.

We feel that this project has had an incredibly positive impact on our school community! It has helped the food waste in our school be controlled better and therefore it will be better for the school and bin company as it will mean that they will not need to worry as much about the bins getting contaminated. This project has also made the students and staff of our school, as well as ourselves, more aware of the importance of composting food waste and doing it correctly.

We have been in discussion with our Vice Principals about ordering bins that have General Waste, Recycling and Compost bins all connected in the hopes that, perhaps someday, none of the bins will be contaminated.