Library
The JCSP School Library
Here in New Cross College all our students have access to a warm and welcoming, high quality library run by a professionally qualified librarian. The New Cross College Library is a JCSP Project Library, We are open before school, at lunchtime and after school and students have timetabled weekly library classes. All our students are given the opportunity to borrow books, read on a regular basis and to participate in library based literacy and numeracy based projects.
We run library-based classes aimed at improving students’ Literacy and Numeracy skills. As in all of the JCSP Libraries reading and writing skills are developed, reading habits nurtured and the information skills needed to navigate and participate in society are practised during our weekly library classes. We regularly organise reading initiatives, author visits, book clubs, storytelling, maths games, debates, poet and artist visits and much more. We use a computerised programme called Accelerated Reader to monitor our junior students’ progression in reading and comprehension, direct them to suitable books and to challenge them to improve their reading levels. We also often hold events and activities for parents, staff and groups from the local community.
Our library is a dynamic space in an equally dynamic school and has quickly become the heart of the school where our students choose to come in their free time.
