There is an extensive fiction collection with an expanding selection of ‘wider reading’ for sixth form or more experienced readers.
A wide range of ‘quick reads’ graphic novels and picture books are available.  Daily and local newspapers and an extensive range of magazines are held in the foyer with comfortable seating.

The Library is staffed by a full time professional librarian, Mrs E Shakespeare.
We are keen to foster a love of reading both for information and pleasure and have been awarded ‘Reading Connects’  status   a DCSF-funded National Literacy Trust initiative. 

“Reading Connects is more of an ethos, than a project. It encourages schools to embed a holistic creative approach to promoting reading for pleasure into their policies, vision and good practice,”  National Literacy Trust.

 Regular sessions are timetabled in the library for independent reading. Events such as World book day, Poetry Day and Book Week are celebrated. Visits from Authors, Storytellers and poets take place throughout the year. A fiercely fought House Lit’ Quiz has the final on WORLD BOOK DAY.

 A very successful programme of ‘Accelerated Reading’, to assist less fluent readers takes place each form time . Students are paired with a sixth form  mentor.  This year our students increased their ‘skills score’  by 148 points raising the average reading age by one year and three months.

The Staffordshire Young Teenage Fiction book Award sees TAHS with the highest number of students taking part across the county.  A County Shortlist quiz.  The Strawberries and Shortlist event at Uttoxeter library and a final celebration day at the county showground are all part of this celebration of reading.