Banned!

BANNED!

If you were up early enough on 23^rd November you would have seen a rare sight in the LRC at Farnham: 14 students wide awake, on their feet and enthusiastic! (I am talking 9am on a Monday morning…)

Here they are doing the Banned Books and Banned Films quizzes:

 

We were well supported by the English department who brought in 7 classes over the week, to have a go at the quizzes and be astounded at some of the books that have been banned. One of these classes decided to have a quiet reading session while they were here:

We explained that as part of Equality and Diversity week we wanted to promote freedom of speech.

The Banned Books quiz (57 entries) was won by Ben Porter, who is planning to buy some Oscar Wilde books with his token. There were 52 entries for the Banned Films quiz and Emma Wiltshire enjoyed her prize of a tub of chocolates! 

 

Merrist Wood students showed great interest in the displays in the LRC and the Banned Books particularly aroused much discussion.

 

Hugh Penrhyn-Lowe (11040113) BTEC L3 Ext Diploma Animal Management student was the winner of the quiz.

At Guildford College Toby Harris St John won the prize for the Banned Films.

 

Check out our Twitter feed for more details: @GCLRCs.

Book Swap 2014

The ‘Big Book Read’ in the LRC

Thursday 5th June, 10 am – 4 pm

 

To promote the pleasure of reading, Guildford College LRC is holding a book swap. Why not pop in and bring along one of your old fiction books to swap for another.

Staff are, of course, welcome to come along and swap too and if you have any unwanted fiction books (in reasonable condition) that you would like to donate to our book swap, they will be most welcome.

 

See you there!

Celebrating World Book Week 2013

All the LRCs took part in celebrating a very successful At the Movies themed World Book Week 2013 which created a real buzz for reading. Here is a round-up of the activities along with our competition winners:

Guildford College

• 22 students attended a Storyteller event 
• 67 students entered the Picture Quiz - The winner of the £10 Amazon voucher is Amirali Kheradmand.
• 8 students entered the World Book Day Quiz - The winner of the Amazon voucher is Mia Sherrington.
• 64 books and 89 films were added to our wall.
• 43 fiction books were borrowed during the week. (This is a record!!)

Farnham College

• 101 students entered the Film Picture Quiz - 1st Prize went to Ellie Gaskin with 2nd Prize going to Durell Chimombo.
• 72 students entered the World Book Day Quiz - 1st prize went to Chloe Shaw with 2nd Prize going to Ayla Stenning.
• Students also shared their favorite books and films.
• 18 fiction books were borrowed during the week.

Merrist Wood

• 47 students entered the Film Picture Quiz - The winner was Connie Norris
• 6 students posted on the book wall and lots of discussion took place about books and films.
• 21 fiction books were borrowed during the week. (This is also a record breaking number!!)

A big thank you to all the students and staff that took part in World Book Week 2013!!

Watch this space for 2014.......

Six Book Challenge 2013

FC LRC & GC LRC are pleased to announce the launch of the Six Book Challenge 2013!

Do you want to improve your reading and literacy skills? Do you want to get back into reading but don't know where to start?

If the answer is yes, then get them involved in the Six Book Challenge!

We had a trial run of the challenge last year with two ESOL groups at Guildford and 15 students at Farnham with some success but we are now opening it up to any students that want to improve their reading skills and/or get back into reading.

The challenge is for students to read six books before the end of June 2013.

Well not just books... poetry, newspapers,  magazines and e-books count too! All you need to do is pop along to the LRC and sign up. It doesn't take long, just a minute or two to fill out a little form. Then we give you a reading diary so you can record what you read and rate it out of 5. Once you have read something and recorded it in your diary pop back into the LRC to get it stamped by a member of the LRC team.

When you have filled up your diary and read all six books you have completed the challenge and you will receive your certificate and get entered into a National Prize Draw. First prize is a theatre trip to London for 2 and three runners up will get a Kobo e-reader.

Don't worry if you don't know where to start or what to read the LRC staff can help you and you can also check out this useful website to help you find your next read. There will also be freebies and incentives throughout the challenge to keep you motivated! :)

Over 23 students have signed up already! Why not join them and give it a go?!?