Children from 14 primary schools in Harrow have chosen the winner of this year’s Harrow Picture Book Award.
If you’re into it – Read into it.
What do the women’s football star Leah Wilkinson, body coach Joe Wicks and author Michael Morpurgo all have in common?
Sowing the Seeds of Change: how school libraries are the Green Heart of the school
Rachel JohnstonHarrow SLS Librarian’s view: Brown rings on the ceiling are not normally good news in a library, especially when accompanied by the distinctive smell of wet plasterboard. Anyone who has worked in a typical 1960s school building will know all too well the perils of flat roofs and internal drainpipes, as well as floor to ceiling windows causing both books and readers to bake in summer and icy draughts in winter. Our changing climate is already having an impact on buildings that were not designed for extreme weather. Ask any caretaker what a combination of autumn leaves and …
The Island at the Edge of Night wins the Harrow Junior Book Award 2025
The winners of the Harrow Junior Book Award 2025 were announced on Tuesday June 10th at a special award ceremony at Longfield primary school in Harrow. Children from 11 Harrow primary schools have voted The Island at the Edge of Night by Lucy Strange as their favourite book for 2025, with Alex vs Axel: The Impossible Quests by Sam Copeland and The Clockwork Conspiracy by Sam Sedgman following in second and third places.
Dental health matters: teaching kids better oral care with books
Rachel JohnstonHarrow SLS Librarian’s view: Dental health matters: tackling the ‘national embarrassment’ of the crisis in children’s dental health through children’s books A hospital operation is one experience that no parent would want their child to face, yet every year thousands of children are hospitalised through an entirely preventable cause – tooth decay. The state of children’s teeth has become ‘a national embarrassment’, according to one of the authors of a major report published in September 2024(1) which revealed the extent of the current crisis in children’s oral health. The research shows that fewer than four out of ten …
The burning of Spellow community library – how libraries can help to restore peace and security for our children and young people
Rachel JohnstonHarrow SLS Librarian’s view: From the many images of senseless destruction in the riots following the tragic murders in Southport this summer, those of the blackened, ransacked public library in Spellow, Liverpool seemed to encapsulate the horror of attacks driven by social media misinformation. The community had lost not only its library but also all that it had represented in terms of shared cultural heritage and access to learning. In those first hours it seemed an insurmountable challenge to recover from such a blow to a key part of the community’s identity. In the days that followed, the …
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