Take a Journey

Reading is often compared to taking a journey, as you get to spend some time somewhere else, seeing the world through someone else’s eyes.

Well, the International Bookmark Exchange offers you another way to do just that. 

Participating students are asked to create a beautiful bookmark (relevant to the ideas at the core of the exchange) which, if it is picked as one of the best, will be exchanged with a student at one of the schools we have been matched with.  This year our partner schools are in Estonia, Romania and Jamaica, and we hope to learn more about them once we receive their bookmarks.

All students aged 10-13 are eligible to enter, and all they need to do is come to the library, collect their blank bookmark, decorate it in a beautiful and relevant way and hand it in before Wednesday 22^nd October. 

Winners will be notified and will receive their reciprocal bookmark thereafter.  Those bookmarks that are not picked will be laminated and returned to their owner – so everyone who enters will end up with a brand new bookmark one way or another!

What better way to spread peace and unity than to find common ground with people in the far away corners of the world through sharing our love of books and reading.  Keep an eye on this blog for updates.

Responsible Research

As we know, at IB level it is absolutely essential that projects are thoroughly researched, and that sources are reputable and reliable. 

Well, luckily, help is at hand, because Swans now has a subscription to Questia School, a fantastic digital library of full-text academic articles and e-books.  For our IB students, this is the tailor-made place to begin the search for fantastic information for their internal assessments, extended essays and any other projects.

To start browsing Questia, IB students simply need to contact the library to be receive their password.  They will then be able to access Questia from home or school, or anywhere else they choose!  Not only this, but they will also be able to save their research and generate citations too.

So if you are one of our IB students, call into the library today and discover a world of reliable research right at your fingertips.