Ms McKay, who has been school librarian at Corby Business Academy in Corby, Northamptonshire, since it opened in 2008, has introduced staff versus student “battles of the books”, where teachers and pupils don boxing gloves and quiz each other about chosen books.
Other activities include “zombie apocalypses”, where students read zombie-themed literature, learn survival skills and camp out in the woods, and home-made reward scratch cards, which involve students reading a book, doing a quiz on it and winning a scratch card if they get all the answers right. One in four of the cards offer a prize and they have proved so popular that assistant librarian Christina Mangin is making 4,000 of them a year.
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