Duffield Library Code

The main purpose of the Library is to provide a quiet environment for those who wish to study or read quietly and undisturbed by others. Therefore please be considerate and only come in if you are happy to respect the needs of others and conform to the requirements of the library.

Group work can become noisy and disruptive. Work in pairs may be acceptable as long as nobody else can hear. No more than two people should be working at one computer.

Computers should be used exclusively for work. No games, no Social networking, no e-mail except to collect or send work between school and home.

This means that any essential talk should be conducted in a quiet voice so that only the person spoken to can hear.

Particularly at busy times everyone in the Library should be here to work, read or play chess. It is not a social area.

Mrs Friel is sole arbiter of acceptability of noise levels and behaviour.

If you are asked to leave the library you are expected to go without argument or delay – even if you think it unfair.  

Life is unfair!

All Hallows Read

All Hallows, or Hallowe'en on October 31st is a good day to read a spooky story.

And why not join thousands of people around the globe to give a spooky story to a friend.

All Hallows Read - Neil Gaiman

You could start with Neil's own award-winning The Graveyard Book.

Some more ideas for spooky reading:

Charlie Higson - The Enemy series

M R James - Ghost Stories

Darren Shan - The Vampire's Apprentice, or The Saga of Larten Crepsley series

Joseph Delaney - The Spok's Apprentice series

Edgar Allan Poe - Tales of Mystery and Imagination

I-Spy Competition

To celebrate books and reading on World Book Day - April 23rd - the library is holding another competition.


Members of KEGS Staff have been caught on camera reading a book that they loved when they were in their early teens (for some of us that was a very long time ago).  The photos will be on display near their teaching/work area around the school.


All you have to do to win a prize is spot and identify as many you can and hand a list to Mrs Gray in the Library by the end of Friday 27th April.


Coincidentally two staff members have chosen a book by the best-known authors who were born and died on 23rd April.


As you may not know all the staff by name we've helped to identify both them and the book they are reading on the photo.