October is... Black History Month

October sees the yearly celebration of Black History Month in the UK.
This year the focus is on the anniversary of the Slave Trade Act 1807, which officially abolished slavery in the UK.

To co-incide with this, there are displays in the LIC on slavery and a resource list is available with suggested website and books.

You might want to look at these sites on the topic:

National Maritime Museum's mini-site for KS3 pupils

Direct gov's section

Parliament archives on slavery

Recovered histories

Anti-Slavery's 1807 anniversary site

Portcities: exploring the role of the UK's ports in the slave trade

Buy some books!

Look out for your Cover to Cover magazine soon! It has lots of discounted new books for you to buy. Read through the magazine with whoever is paying, fill in the coupon on the back and take it to the LIC with the correct money. Deadline is the 28th Sept.

Look out for our book fair arriving soon!
26th Sept - 1st Oct. Another great way of buying some snazzy new reads. LIC, breaktimes. Look out for more publicity.
We will also be publicising the bookfair with a competition where you can win a free book!

Welcome [back]

Welcome (again) to the LIC blog. We had some technical hitches last term but hopefully this can again be the place for you all to get more information not only about the LIC but lots of different ways of helping you become more INDEPENDENT LEARNERS. That is what school is for, after all...

If you have any homework topics you need good weblinks for, or would like anything to be shared on this blog (like your own book reviews) talk to the librarian, Ms Swinyard.

Careers blog

Mr Hones (Careers) has created another blog to deal with everything you need to know about careers.

Log on to the NBS Careers Blog here.

Alternatively you can visit the careers area in the LIC, which has not only information about careers but also universities and general life choices.

Wimbledon

Well, even though we have no Brits to support for the rest of Wimbledon, it's still an exciting contest. We have an interactive display in the LIC - help us fill in the scoreboard by looking up results on the internet or in the papers. All the interesting Wimbledon-related news is on there too. Come and see!

Check out these websites:

Official Wimbledon website

Times newspaper: Wimbledon

Newsround's sports pages

COMPETITION: Guardian Young Critics

If you're under 16, write a 200-word review of one of the nominated books for the Children's Fiction Prize as part of the Young Critics award.

Prizes:
10 people will win £20 of Book Tokens and a set of the nominated books for their school.

If you enter as a class and write lots of good entries overall, then the whole class together could win a trip to the Guardian Newsroom, £300 of Book Tokens and a set of the nominated books.

Click here for how to enter.
Click here for the longlist.

Fairtrade chocolate and Ghana

Here are some weblinks for looking at the topic of Fairtrade chocolate in Ghana:

'Dubble' website, a Fairtrade chocolate company

'Divine' website, another Fairtrade chocolate company

Oxfam's teenage website, about Ghana and chocolate


And if you have time...

Teachers' resources

Non-Fairtrade chocolate company 'Jamieson's', but does have information about culture in Ghana