The Lower School Library (LSL) is used by the boys in Year 7-9.
It is a comfortable room, less formal than the Senior library,
which gives the younger pupils their own space. The collections of
fiction and non-fiction are, naturally, chosen to suit their age
and ability (boys from these years can borrow items from the Senior
Library if the book they want is not available in LSL).
The library is open to pupils at lunch time each day and all
items (except for reference books) can be
borrowed. Fines are imposed for late returns. The
librarian is assisted each day by a team of library monitors
recruited from the Year 12 Sixth Form students.
Boys also use LSL in the course of some of their lessons. In
Year 7 one period a week of English is timetabled in there and the
boys are then introduced to the Dewey classification system and
they learn a little about the ways libraries are arranged (they
even design their own!). Other subject departments also use LSL for
project work or group discussion (it makes an attractive
alternative to the classroom); these include Art, Biology,
Classics, Geography and History.