Wakefield Girls' High School - The Review 2021

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WAKEFIELD WHERE GIRLS LOVE READING

Matilda Bronze Award Winners

News from the Learning Resources Centre 2020-21 by Rose Harries - LRC Manager

Amelia Parkin, Matilda Gold Award Winner

It has been an unusual year here in the LRC just as it has all over school. September began with some uncertainty about how things would work in here, a communal space filled with resources that were being handled by lots of people, the LRC represented a unique challenge in terms of keeping operating as much as was safe. Mr Carlin kindly made me a very snazzy screen for my desk, soft furnishings were put aside and tables spread out. Following CILIP guidance, books have been cleaned and quarantined on return and students have been cleaning their hands before entering the library. We have needed to operate a rota in order to

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maintain year-group bubbles, but I think the students adapted to all of these new rules quickly and have understood the need for them. Over the second lockdown which started in January, the LRC became the school base for key worker students and we all fell into a nice pattern of working here together, as well as some time for games, colouring and audiobooks. It was really nice to feel the school still operating face-to-face, albeit on a reduced level, whilst the outside world felt so uncertain and it was an opportunity to be appreciative of what a comfortable, relaxed and open space we are fortunate enough to have here in the form of the LRC.


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