Staff Information
The Millennium Centre
| Upstairs areas | 6th form study room & dedicated library section |
| Staff Work Area & photocopier | |
| Reference section | Connexions / Careers section |
| Media section with DVDs and videos | |
| Non-fiction collection | |
| B54 teaching area | 30 PC' s, Whiteboard & Printer |
| Downstairs areas | Fiction |
| Teaching area B80 (The Well) |
Contact Details
| Librarians | Val Boyle & Gill Hodgson |
| VBoyle@rytoncs.co.uk GHodgson@rytoncs.co.uk |
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| Phone extension | 239 |
| Opening hours for students | Mon 8.30-4, Tue/Wed/Thur/Fri 8am-4pm |
Opening Hours
| Staff | Any time from 7.30 until the school is locked after evening classes! |
| Students | 8am to 4pm, except on Mondays, when we don’t open before school because of the staff briefing. |
Technical Information
| Technician's Helpline | 264 |
| Technician's names | Mr Winter (Senior ICT Technician), Mr Simpson ( ICT Technician) |
| ICT Network Manager | Mr Abraham on extension 255 |
| Online resources | Heinemann World Book Oxford English Dictionary Online |
| Earphones | Box of 40 pairs available from librarians |
| Passwords | Librarians and Technicians can change student passwords |
Staff Development Section
At the west entrance to the library, opposite the senior
teachers’ offices, you will find an area designated Staff
Only.
This contains:
Writing desks - Space for four people to work
Two computers - These are linked to the printers in the library well
A photocopier - It’s filled every morning: please see the librarian if it runs out of paper. If you have any work for Reprographics, please leave it in the tray on the librarians’ counter.
Guillotine - Please put scrap paper in the Paper Recycling Bin
Staff Development Section: Books and resources are organised
into the following sections: • Teaching
and Learning
• Inclusion
• Classroom Management
• Pastoral
• Assemblies
If you have any donations, particularly when you’ve been on a course, we’d be pleased to receive them.
If there’s anything you’d like us to buy, please let us know.
Teaching in the Library
There are two teaching areas in the Millennium Centre, and they can both be booked through the librarians. An A3 sheet is printed for each week of the school year, and bookings can be made as far in advance as you like. In addition to the computer workstations, there is enough seating for full classes to sit at desks in both the upper and the lower areas.
B80 : ‘The Well’
This is the lower area, where there are 32 computers, whiteboard and printers. The projector and large screen are operated from computer 21, which has a large “Staff Only” sign on the monitor. This is also where you can access Bromcom.
B54
This is primarily a MFL classroom, but it is also available to be used by other classes.
There are 30 computers and an interactive whiteboard.
It should be noted that 20 of the computers are inside the classroom, and 10 ‘outside’, due to the open plan design of the centre.
HELP!The librarians have a box of headphones behind their counter. If you would like your students to use them, please count them out and kindly ensure that they are returned to the box with the cables neatly wrapped and in their individual plastic bags.
If you would like to have a technician present for the beginning of your lesson, please log your request through:
Internet Explorer > Staff > Log ICT request
What can we do for you?
Book boxes for teaching: If you’d like a box of books on a certain theme to use in your classroom, we just need a day’s notice.
Book boxes for your reg. group: We can put together a box of fiction and non-fiction for you to use with your reg. groups to encourage private reading.
Alternatively, you could book your reg. group into the library for one registration period a week. You can do the register on the computer in the well while they change their books.
Help with students’ independent research. If you’re asking your students to find things out, it would be really helpful if you could let us know beforehand so that we collect resources, research websites, make photocopies and make sure potentially useful books are kept in the library.
Websites: When students go online to find information, they waste an awful lot of time if they don’t have a list of specific websites to use. If you’d like us to put a list together, just give us a couple of days’ notice. We’ll need an outline of what you need them to find out and an indication of their ability level.
Tutorials: If you’d like your students to be given some guidance about how to find information in general, or on a certain subject in particular, please come and see Val (usually in on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays.)
Passwords: When your students forget their passwords, you can refer them to the librarians as well as the duty technician's