KGV Art Exhibition 2006

Congratulations to all the GCSE, A/S Level and Advanced Level Art students who have been working hard to produce the 2006 KGV Art Exhibition. A wonderful temporary art gallery has been set up in the main hall; we wish you all a very successful opening evening tonight.

For those students who are inspired to pursue Art as an advanced subject, don't forget that the library has many excellent art resources, including (by shelf number):
730s - Sculpture
740s - Drawing and Decorative Arts
750s - Painting
760s - Graphic Arts and Prints
770s - Photography and Digital Art

Shadowing the Carnegie Medal

The PageGV Reading Group from years 7-9 are "shadowing" the Carnegie Medal which will be announced on July 8th. This means that the group will read the shortlisted books, assess them by the same criteria used by the librarian judges, and share their views with other reading groups.

The first book to be read and discussed is Framed by Frank Cottrell Boyce, who won the 2004 prize with Millions.

Further information about Shadowing can be obtained by visiting the Reading Centre anytime, by checking the displays in the English classroom corridors, or by visiting the library's Carnegie Medal pages.

KGV Orchestra and Choir to tour Italy!

The members of the KGV Orchestra and Choir who will be touring Italy this summer must be looking forward to a fantastic trip! They will perform four concerts and visit some very famous locations, including Venice (watch out for the pigeons!), Pisa, Verona (remember Romeo and Juliette?), and of course Rome.

The library has many books about Italy, including travel guides, histories, books about Italian art, cook books and fiction. Some of these are now on display, as seen in the picture above.

Buono viaggio!

Les Miserable at KGV!

Congratulations to KGV on being awarded the rights to perform Les Miserables. This will be the first time the ‘School Edition’ is performed in Asia. The production will run for 4 nights in December and auditions will take place in June.

The story takes place in 19th Century France, and examines the nature of good, evil, and the law. Find out more about the story and Victor Hugo at Wikipedia.

If you are inspired to read the novel by Victory Hugo (only 1,231 pages!), it is available in the KGV library in the senior fiction section. An abridged version is available in French and can be found in the Modern Languages Corner. The DVD of the 1998 film version of Les Miserables (not the musical) is also available in the library.

Librarians in training

Visitors to the library may have noticed two new faces recently. Our temporary helpers were Anthea and Vivian who are library students from HKU. They have been doing some of the never-ending jobs around the library and we hope they have learned a bit more about what librarians actually do.

If anyone really is interested in library science as a career, a very old (and sometimes funny) movie from 1947 can be seen on the web at the Internet Archive. Please feel free to ask any of the librarians if you have any questions about the profession.

David Almond

Author David Almond is in Hong Kong for a few days visiting schools to talk about his books and writing, but with the exams in full swing, he is unable to visit KGV. His next stop is Shanghai.
He has signed his latest book for us, which you can find in the library along with his earlier works. Clay has been nominated for the Carnegie Medal which will be announced later this year; and his first novel, Skellig, won the Whitbread Children's Award and the Carnegie Medal in 1998. Find out more about David Almond at http://www.davidalmond.com/.

Real Climate

For those students studying hurricanes and tornadoes, as well as other weather topics, try the Real Climate blog. It is written by several people with special knowledge in the field. Use the search box to find information on subjects like greenhouse gases, aerosoles, hurricanes and oceans.