There are plenty of places in School which you can use for silent study and to access learning materials.

Library

The library is a fantastic resource to support your study with a full-time librarian to give advice and facilitate access to learning material. It is a silent study space for students and staff to use throughout the day. If you want to chat or do group work you will need to go somewhere else. As you would expect, there is an excellent range of fiction and non-fiction books, a large selection of subject journals, and online academic research services like JSTOR.

You will also have access to eBooks and audiobooks as well as general interest magazines to support your wider reading. There are a number of laptops and i-pads available for day loan. We have invested in enough textbooks so that all students in the Sixth Form can borrow an appropriate textbook to support your study. These will be available on a deposit loan scheme (£10 per subject - see ParentPay account). The textbooks will be issued via the library by the end of September of your year 12 year.

Private study spaces

We have several bespoke independent study areas for sixth form students. They are available for student use from 8.00am.

• Library – silent work
• ILC1, ILC2 and C Floor break out space/Lab 11– silent/quiet work
• Assembly hall – quiet work
• Subject areas (Art, DT, etc) – work on subject assignments

NOTE these aren’t social spaces. If you want to just chat go to the:

• Dining Room – group work/chat
• Common Room – group work/chat
• Covered student shelter (blue benches) – Dining Room courtyard

Please vacate the Dining Room at break and lunch if you want to socialise or study. We need the space for students to eat. Note – food and drink are only allowed inside the building in the dining room or common room.

If it's noisy or people are messing around in one of the independent study areas, please e-mail pluspost16admin@kes.sheffield.sch.uk or call in at main reception so we can get a member of staff to address the problem. In order that the Post 16 Team can follow up with repeat offenders we have asked duty staff to record names on Satchel. e.g. eating food in study areas, disturbing others in study areas, etc.

If you are using the building after the end of the School day please use the library, ILC, ILC 2 or Lab 11 breakout on C Floor. You should not be in a classroom - unless with a teacher. By 5pm you'll need to be packing up, so buildings staff and cleaners can sort things for the following day.