EBS was awarded the ‘School Mental Health Award’ for supporting staff and students in a warm and nurturing environment. Read more about EBS Health & Wellbeing here.
Welcome to the EBS Library page! We hope you find all the information here useful, but if you have any questions, please feel free to contact the school.
The Library aims to support all teaching and learning within the school using library resources both in print and online. The Library staff ensure that all students and staff have equal access to these resources. As much support as necessary is given to students to assist in use of these materials. We encourage literacy throughout the school. All students are welcome to come to the Library to study, complete homework, read or borrow resources.
We offer students appropriate resources and support them in a calm environment which is centrally located in the school. Resources are selected based on the curriculum in close consultation with all the Faculties. These include both fiction and non-fiction books, daily newspapers, magazines, DVDs, reference books, revision guides and text books. The Library also has many computers and we provide an online library catalogue and online resources, and give students appropriate training in their use.
We provide reading lists for all year groups from 7 to 13, which are available both in the Library and online.
The Carnegie Medal is awarded annually to the writer of an outstanding book for children. If you would like more information on the winner and shortlist, please visit the website: www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk
We organise library events throughout the year including arranging teams for the inter-schools Literature Quiz, Carnegie Shadowing, Stan Lee Comic Book Shadowing and Read for Barnet, as well as author visits to the school.
In Year 7, students will follow a library induction programme in which they are introduced to the library. They will be shown how the catalogue works and how the books are organised.