Services to Schools

The Library Literacy Officers deliver storytimes, Information Literacy workshops, and free talks to groups of school children, throughout the year.

We teach:-

  • the Dewey Decimal Classification System
  • research skills
  • internet and website skills

We welcome visits to the Library, but also visit schools for projects such as:-

  • CILIP's Greenaway Award Shadowing
  • BBC initiatives
  • the Summer Reading Challenge
  • Booktime
  • The National Year of Reading initiatives
  • Boys into Books

Booktime

Booktime is an exciting project which the Children's Library Service is able to offer to local schools.  In the autumn term all Reception children in Poole will receive their free Booktime pack containing the 'Harry and the Dinosaurs go to School', by Ian Whybrow.  They will also receive 'The Puffin Book of Fantastic Poems'.  Booktime is a collaboration between Pearson link will open in new window publishers, Booktrust link will open in new window and the Department for Children, Schools and Families link will open in new window .  All schools will receive their Booktime packs by courier and we contact schools to arrange visits from the Literacy Officers to hand over the packs to the children.  For  further information about this project please contact the Library Literacy Officers on 01202 261650.

For online activities, games and print-outs, please see the the Booktime website at www.booktime.org.uk link will open in new window

Spring Term activities

  • The Great Reading Adventure  (The next adventure is scheduled for 2009)
  • World Book Day  - This year the Library Literacy Officer visited Old Town First School to read stories and hold a competition to win free books.   

Summer Term activities

  • CILIP's Greenaway Award Shadowing

Sylvan First School Pupils Shadowing The Greenaway AwardGreenaway Award Shadowing - Each May - June approximately 60,000 school pupils nationally review the shortlisted Greenaway books based on their illustrations and type up their reviews on the shadowing website.   This year pupils from Sylvan First School and and St Aldhelm's CE VA Combined School shadowed the Award.

To read reviews from Sylvan First School visit http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/home/index.php link will open in new window

  The Summer Reading Challenge

In the Summer Term the Children's Library Service contacts every First, Middle, Combined and Special School in the Borough to promote the National Summer Reading Challenge.   The challenge for this year is called the Team Read.

  • Taking part in the Challenge increases children's reading confidence, skills, enjoyment and motivation.
  • Children receive free collectors folders, stickers and other incentives.
  • On completion of the challenge pupils are given a certificate and medal.  We are able to visit school assemblies at the start of the Autumn Term to present certificates.

Special Events

Many school pupils have visited Poole Libraries to meet authors and illustrators.  Recently children involved in the Cultural Hub have had the chance to meet Julia Golding and Kevin Crossley-Holland.  Schools are contacted on a rotation basis when authors visit.

 

Reader development and Literacy websites:

 

To book a storytime, talk or workshop please contact the Library Literacy Officers on 261650



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