DCS Library

Welcome to the Flecker Library.

Promoting learning, reading and advanced information literacy.

[The Old Decanian Society @OldDecanians]

Our Summer OD Panel is underway! The discussion focuses on career journeys & valuable lessons, guiding our Lower Sixth pupils with their university applications. A heartfelt thanks to our wonderful Old Decanians. #DeanCloseSchool #DeanCloseFuture #DeanCloseSenior #OldDecanians

[Hatherley House @HatherleyHouse]

It's exam season and Hath has never been so quiet! We gather @DCSLib is The Place To Be 😎 Good luck to all our hardworking girls. You've got this 🎊💜👍 #deanclosecourage #distinctlydeanclose

[Dean Close School @DeanCloseSchool]

Did you know… Our Flecker Library has its own website, ORK, which provides a rich, online research kit for all pupils hosting a range of research portals and databases, an online streaming service, eBooks and audiobooks!

#deancloseacademics #deancloselibrary #deanclose5Cs

[DCS Library @DCSLib]

@AccessitLib For us it was good old Lord of the Flies! It's been consistently popular for years, and this year our drama department is putting on the play which has given it a real boost.

[Dean Close School @DeanCloseSchool]

"My favourite time at school is when we go to the library because I love reading story books" - Year One pupil
#DeanCloseIrresistableLearing #DeanCloseSquirrels #DeanCloseFlourish #DistinctlyDeanClose

[DCS Library @DCSLib]

So proud of our U6 for making the most of their Speed Interview Challenge yesterday. Huge thanks to https://t.co/EbuvOGWmT0 @i2iRecruitment @daylesfordfarm https://t.co/lXcmtMOjkm and to all our incredible volunteer interviewers for making the day what it was. #DeanCloseFieldDay

[DCS Library @DCSLib]

@DCSEnglish @KEM_DC @MissElliott20 @Team_English1 I mean, it was a cookbook, so full marks for escapism.

[DCS Library @DCSLib]

Literary Lunch TODAY in the Library! A WBD special, ‘Historical fiction: storytelling or stealing?’, to coincide with the release of Hilary Mantel’s ‘The Mirror and the Light’ 📚📙
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#worldbookday #historicalfiction… https://t.co/S8h4HxUKou

[DCS Library @DCSLib]

Hope you all enjoyed your pancakes yesterday! 🥞 Did you know that we have a huge collection of recipe books in the library? Yum!
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#visityourlibrary #shrovetuesday #pancakes @ Dean Close School https://t.co/q5lPFmgXfm

[DCS Library @DCSLib]

Swipe left to see an excellent review written by one of our 4th form boys, submitted as part of his Reading Challenge journey around the world.
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Asia this time - where next? 📚🌍✈
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#readaroundtheworld… https://t.co/ff8ly3FpeM

[DCS Library @DCSLib]

#StandTogether for Holocaust Memorial Day. Thanks go to dcs_historyandpolitics for delivering a very sobering and thought-provoking seminar last Wednesday lunchtime #HolocaustMemorialDay #HMD2020 @ Dean Close School https://t.co/PQDYXdYYxn

[DCS Library @DCSLib]

Team Gamma busily buying and selling shares in a virtual stock market as part of #SkillsLab. Always so much excitement around the Student Investor Challenge, run by The London Institute of Banking and Finance. First… https://t.co/eYQ1HT6dhS

[DCS Library @DCSLib]

LITERARY LUNCHES are BACK (and now with Krispy Kremes)! Join us in the library this THURSDAY 19th September at 1:45. We’ll be talking about what makes a good book... or a bad book. Essentially, we are going to talk… https://t.co/kjfZkHqLRI

[DCS Library @DCSLib]

Because we’ve all been there... #whatwasthatbookcalledagain #happymonday https://t.co/AO9y7SW31X

[DCS Library @DCSLib]

We have lots of new books waiting to be borrowed, and we’ve topped up our most popular book series so there are plenty to go around #pitticuslore #skulduggerypleasant #divergent #mortalengines https://t.co/E74MvWVoxD

[DCS Library @DCSLib]

Feeling back in the swing of things now that the new term is well underway! It has been so wonderful meeting new students visiting the library. Our lovely new 4th formers seem to be big readers 📚😁#loveyourlibrary… https://t.co/m8YZewo8yx

[DCS Library @DCSLib]

Commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day in the DCS Library. D-Day was the largest invasion ever assembled, before or since, landing 156,000 Allied troops by sea and air on five beachheads in Normandy,… https://t.co/4he6LuZWmL

[DCS Library @DCSLib]

It's always great to receive thoughtful book donations from our students, and even better when they include the student's own published illustrations #thankyou #luckyus #beautifulillustrations #seahorse #aroundtheworldin80species

[Dean Close School @DeanCloseSchool]

Dean Close was absolutely thrilled to retain the title of Best Independent School in Gloucestershire. Thank you to everyone in the Dean Close Community and @soglos readers for voting for us for the second year in a row. #SoGlos #BestIndependentSchool @GoodSchoolsUK @BSAboarding

[DCS Library @DCSLib]

@benittyavirah Nice vinegary flavour. (But the slight pop of liquid will take some getting used to). #tmi

[DCS Library @DCSLib]

Video evidence of Mr. Suckle sampling a scorpion in today's excellent EPQ presentation, 'Are Insects the Future of Food?'. Giving your audience an opportunity to engage is a great way to enhance a presentation #mrszeitzchickenedout #presentationskills #epq #alevel #entomophagy