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Welcome to Thorp Academy Learning Resource Centre

The LRC is a busy resource centre which is a large part of the Academy. It is open to staff and students all day from Monday-Friday for information literacy lessons, Accelerated Reading lessons, curriculum subject lessons and during social times. We are also the main 6th Form study area.

The LRC has over 5,000 items of stock including Fiction, Non-Fiction, Text Books, DVDs as well as Magazines & Newspapers.

September 2016 - July 2017

8, 398 Loans

7,581 Returns

From September 1 2017

3,084 Loans
2,935 Returns
Eclipse.net

From September 1 2017

Before School

2,386

Break

2,852

Lunch

3,863

Eclipse.net is our online LRC catalogue.

Look at our Reading Cloud page to find out how we use this at Thorp.

If there are any books you see on this website which you would like to borrow, log in to your Reading Cloud to reserve them!

Achievement Club

Achivement Club is on in the LRC every night after school with myself and Mrs Lemmon.

Any homework can be done from 2.45pm - 4.00pm. 

Please sign in on arrival - refreshments provided.

In November we were honoured to be awarded with the Society of Authors Reading for Pleasure Award 2017/18 

Thank you to Teri Terry for nominating us.

LRC Apprentices

We now have 18 LRC Apprentices training in the LRC every day. Find out what they help out with on the LRC Apprentice page.

LRC Mission Statement

Tuesday 2.45-3.45pm 

There is an opportunity for young writers to take part in the beep junior reporters group writing about and reviewing current topics. 

Opening Times

Before School

Tue-Fri - 8.15-8.40am

Break

Mon-Fri  - 11.00-11.15am

Lunchtimes

Mon-Fri - 12.15-12.45pm

 

Achievement Club

2.45-4.00pm

 

Thorp RIOT Readers

Book Group

Every other Thursday

2.45-4.00pm

Everyone Welcome

 

Beep Junior Group

Every Tuesday

2.45 - 3.45pm

Everybody Welcome

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