It was just another workday, when an email popped into my inbox from ‘Honours Mailbox’ inviting me to the King’s Coronation. My first reaction was “is this a scam’? On confirming its authenticity, my next thought was “why me?’
Classification for nerds
How a little bit of understanding about the classification scheme in your library can help children find the books they want.
Francis Gerard: The Global Storyteller
Author, film maker, museum creator and raconteur Francis Gerard has definitely lived an “adventurous life”. Here he shares his love of books, Chinese culture, the San bushmen of South Africa and sci-fi.
#FakeNews. How to equip pupils to navigate ‘truth’ online.
There are 63,000 search enquiries entered into Google every second! But what does this mean for pupils increasingly relying on and being influenced by information available online?
School library versus classroom reading corners
Can classroom reading corners be an acceptable alternative to a whole school library? Advice from Jacqueline Barnes, Northumberland SLS.
A Portrait of Black Artists
Books which focus on inspiring black icons that will be ideal for your primary school library (with a special focus on activist artist Faith Ringgold), selected by Sharon Walsh from Westminster SLS.