We hope you will find it a useful resource to support learning. Reading is an essential ingredient to learning and at Canon Slade we want to develop a love for reading with the entire Canon Slade family, students, staff, parents and governors.
We also hope you will use this website to find resources, access our web links for research or explore teenage fiction with our links to author websites and book trailers. Canon Slade Library has approximately 15,000 resources, we have a range of texts which include fiction, information (non-fiction) graphic (graffix) novels, newspapers, magazines, online resources, web links, audio books and DVDs. Students can access any of these during opening times.
In addition to our vast range of texts we have computers and laptops for students to use. We also welcome students to enjoy our library during break and lunch times when students can use a computer, read a book, enter our competitions or join our variety of clubs.
We welcome feedback so please feel free to comment on the content of the site or even call into the library and speak to a member of staff. The library is open Monday to Friday 8.40 a.m. – 4.00 p.m.
Librarian: Mrs Cairns MCILIP
Library Assistant: Mrs Walkden
Mrs Cairns MCILIP
Librarian
Mrs A Walkden
Library Assistant
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Latest News Articles
Year 8 students participated in Shadowing the Carnegie Book Award
Carnegie Book Award https://carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/ Last year we were unable to take part in the annual Carnegie Book Medal but this year a group of eleven year 8 students participated in shadowing the prestigious national book award. The CILIP Carnegie Medal is the...
World Book Day 2021
World Book Day 2021 This year our celebrations were quieter and not the usual with our staff dress up or huge cake sale. However, the school celebrated the day of reading by the whole school listening to chapters read by staff from Anthony Horowitz’s short story ‘A...
World Book Day Bake Off 2020
Forty students took part in our annual book themed world book day competition and £188.50 was raised for the charity READ International. The winning cake was a beautifully decorated Harry Potter themed cake. Mrs Teasdale and Mrs Wilcock judged the competition and both...
Latest Author Visits
Author Visit: Year 8 & 9 Students – Lisa Williamson at Bolton School on 27 January
A group of year 8 and 9 students had the pleasure of meeting the young adult author Lisa Williamson at Bolton School on 27 January. Lisa's books are popular and during her talk she talked about the inspiration and processes behind her books, 'All about Mia' and 'Paper...
Review: Frank Cottrell-Boyce Visits Canon Slade, Competition Winners
The amazing Frank Cottrell Boyce author visited Canon Slade School on Friday 22 March.His visit followed the celebration of Book Week and World Book Day at the beginning of March. Frank was invited to talk to all year 7 and 8 students about his journey as...
DATE MOVE:: Author visit by award winner Frank Cottrell Boyce Friday March 22nd
New and upcoming book: Ted Rules the World Frank is visiting Canon Slade as part of our special Book Week to give a talk to Year 8 pupils during period 4 and Year 7 period 5, on Friday 1st March in the chapel. He is an amazing author and has written many adventure and...
Latest Book Reviews
Review: One
One by Sarah Crossan One is about twins called Grace and Tippi who are conjoined. They are sixteen and are starting at a new school and don't know what the people there would think of them. Then a life changing decision comes up that could change their lives forever....
Review: Summer’s Dream
The book Summer's Dream is about a girl called Summer and she has a twin sister called Skye. As well, she has two older sisters Cherry (who is Summers stepsister) and Honey. She also has two younger sisters: Skye and Coco. She loves dancing, especially ballet, and...
Review: The Art of Walt Disney
The Art of Walt Disney is a cool book for everybody to read. It was fun looking at the old classic characters like Mickey Mouse, Simba, Winnie the Pooh, Aladdin, Pluto, Dumbo, Bambi and many more. Walt Disney did a fantastic job creating Disney and the cartoon...