Every child deserves a great school library

Musings from a high school teacher. Why we need school librarians

Guest blog written by Beverley Naidoo for Great School Libraries Campaign 25.9.2021 The last time I was in an actual school library was...

Jill Coleman, Director of Children’s Books at BookTrust, talks about Cressida Cowell’s Life-changing Libraries campaign.

"Our school libraries are vital in supporting the Curriculum throughout the school". Theresa Breslin explains more

Ou teachers as reader groups

How school librarians have been rising to the challenge of lockdown.

Many children can feel intimidated when arriving in secondary school for the first time. Librarian Anne De'Ath tells us about an initiative

You can tell a lot about a school from its library. Says retired local authority school improvement advisor and occasional Ofsted inspector

How Whitchurch C Of E School library runs their Chatterbooks Book Club.

BookPenPals pairs UK authors and illustrators with UK schools to make book recommendations via postcards. Schools reply with a postcard of t

Library Insights - Engaging Pupils in Raising the Profile of Ibstock Place School Library

Library insight blog from Ros Harding SLA school librarian of the year 2019. talks about the Patron of Reading scheme and Book Bingo.

Reading week meant every student reading the same book. Read how we went about this and some of our outcomes.

As a literacy and literature adviser and university lecturer I have visited many primary schools and worked with many hundreds of...

“The active encouragement of reading for pleasure should be a core part of every child’s curriculum entitlement because extensive reading...

Christina Clark, Head of Research at the National Literacy Trust, is a member of the campaign working group. In this blog she introduces...