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There are still tickets left for many children’s (and adults’) events at the Hay Festival over half term. As Simon Armitage has just been announced as the new Poet Laureate, a couple of new events have been added which you/your students may be interested in. Plus Hay is always a great day out. Programme here.
There is still time to enter the CKG competitions as your groups finish reading the novels they’ve not had the time to get through.
Plus, have you thought about organising a party for the announcement? Perhaps invite other local schools? Book your library for noon on Tuesday 18th June 2019 when the winner will be announced at a British Library ceremony
Last year, a project called 'Graphic Lives' involved a group of British Bangladeshi women telling their migration stories by creating comics.
There are some sets of the finished comics left with lots of potential for using them in a school library. There were 9 comics altogether and you can view them online
There is not a huge amount of text and the language is fairly simple, so the comics would work for students with a range of abilities - perhaps as a discussion resource or teaching pack, or simply to loan or give away to students. Through the project, we wanted to focus attention on women's migration stories (which are often overlooked) and to encourage discussion around a variety of issues, such as migration, belonging and culture.
If you would like a free set of the printed comics to use in your library, please email s.mcnicol[at]mmu.ac.uk for a set to be posted out to you.
Utilising the School Library to enhance R4P
Milton Keynes
27th June
The Department for Education has announced it will launch a new campaign to support parents to incorporate ways to ‘chat, play and read’ with their children into their daily routines. The announcement follows new research which found that almost a third of children (31%) do not read books with someone at home each day. The campaign will highlight the concept that it is never too early to help develop children’s communication, language and literacy skills and will also provide practical advice on how to fit quality interactions into parent’s daily routines.
The DfE has released a new, free follow-along video starring journalist and co-founder of Mum&You, Natasha Kaplinsky and media psychologist Emma Kenny, as a useful tool which guides parents on how they can Chat, Play and Read with their child. The film shows that interacting with their children can be a fun and happy time for both parent and child.
NLT has launched a website, Small Talk, which is designed to help parents develop the skills and confidence they need to boost their child’s language skills at home. It features simple activity suggestions, advice and videos to help parents chat, play and read with their child whenever and wherever they are. So well worth sending out to parents of all primary age children.
By the Children’s Laureates of the last 20 years, here are one or two suggestions which switched them onto reading.
(With a vote for librarians from our amazing President @chrisriddell50)
Sally Dring from Ripon Grammar School has been a valued SLA board member for nine years and her school library is thriving (not necessarily a consequence, but who knows?). Sally points out in the school newsletter why the school library is needed more than ever.
In #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek find out how you can help students in your school library. Places still available on our Wirral course - Mental Health and Wellbeing in a school library setting
The Independent Book Award shortlist has been released. A great shopping list for school libraries, including many from the adult list for older children. Winners will be announced on 14th June, just before Independent Bookshop week (15th – 22nd June). Many of the shortlisted authors will be visiting independent bookshops around the country, so check your local shop news.
An all-female shortlist of six books makes up this year’s contenders for the Klaus Flugge Prize for most exciting newcomer to children’s picture book illustration.
This is a representation of illustrators around the world, although a dominance for the Cambridge School of Art’s MA in Children’s Book Illustration.
If your students are down after the FA cup final tomorrow, remind them that the Women's World Cup takes place between 7 June and 7 July 2019. During the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019, the National Literacy Trust will be publishing a ‘live’ story written by author Tom Palmer.
There will be three chapters published on the NLT’s website each week during the tournament, following events on and off the pitch. The story can be read in class or at home and is aimed at children aged 8 to 14.
The first chapter will be published on 20 May in the lead-up to the tournament.
We are incredibly excited to announce the titles that create the shortlist for the information Book Award 2019.
Those titles are:
Up to 7
Wren & Rook 978 1 5263 6057 1
Walker 978 1 4063 4994 8
Usborne 978 1 4749 3660 6
7 to 12
Big Picture Press 978 1 78741 260 6
Andersen 978 1 78344 741 1
Andersen 978 1 78344 679 7
Words & Pictures 978 1 912413 95 9
12 to 16
Usborne 978 1 4749 2252 4
Bloomsbury 978 1 4088 8993 0
Two Hoots 978 1 5098 3967 4
You can access the lesson activities and Voting for the Children's Choice Award here: https://www.sla.org.uk/information-book-award-2019.php
North East SLA Branch invites everyone to Seven Stories National Centre for Children’s Books Newcastle - Thursday 23rd May 4.30pm-6.30pm
Speakers include Nadia Shireen, author-illustrator of Billy and the Beast; Michael de Souza, creator of Rastamouse; Na’ima B. Robert, author of She Wore Red Shoes; and Karl Nova, poet and author of Rhythm and Poetry , winner of the CliPPA 2018.
More details on the branch page
Elmer Day is this Saturday 25th May 2019, with hundreds of events happening in schools, bookshops and libraries across the country, turning the whole nation patchwork.
Resources are available here for download.
As it will be Elmer’s 30th birthday, on Books are my Bag day – celebrating high street bookshops, a special children’s bag designed by David McKee will be available.
The world of children’s books is a sadder place today as a legend dies. Many authors, librarians, teachers and organisations are remembering this wonderful lady as most of us have a lot to thank her for.
Hay Festival opens today with schools events to start before the open programme for all. It may be too late for your school to attend, but there may be chance to livestream some exciting authors.
There are resources and lesson plans available during and after the festival events, including the 200+ Hay Levels in science, humanities and social sciences on YouTube suitable for 16 – 25 year olds.
Hay is just too good to miss, one way or another.
Into Film Award competition now open to children and young people aged 5 – 19.
Whether you use a camera, a tablet or a mobile phone, every valid submission to the Into Film Awards will go into a prize draw to win £1,000 worth of filmmaking equipment for the filmmakers, film club or classroom!
The website has useful downloads to help, along with details of other creative categories to become involved.
Entries are open until 6 December 2019.
Head Librarian
Recruiter: Forest School
Location: London
Salary: Competitive
Sector: Schools
Job Type: Permanent
Closing date: 6 June 2019
Job Description
Forest School is a high performing independent day school for approximately 1400 pupils aged 4-18, situated on the edge of Epping Forest in North East London. Retirement of our Head Librarian means that we are seeking to appoint a creative, confident and enthusiastic qualified librarian with significant IT and people skills to lead the library team.
The school has developed modern, relevant library services which form part of our Information Services. Library services are forward looking, focusing on reading for pleasure and developing information literacy for an information society. The libraries have exciting and relevant development opportunities to explore and deliver to support our pupils' development in an information society.
Forest School Head-Librarian-JD-and-PS-May-2019
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The Royal Society have announced the shortlist of books for this science prize. With Coding, Bacteria and Space on the list, what’s not to like? If you’ve not been lucky enough to win a set of the shortlist, this is a must-purchase list, with a reminder to apply next year to win a full set to encourage your pupils to explore various aspects of science.
A Georgian villa and terraced gardens in Dumfries where the author J.M. Barrie played as a child, and which later inspired his best-loved work Peter Pan, is reopening as Scotland’s first National Centre for Children’s Literature and Storytelling.
A wonderful place to point your families towards.
Booktrust is running a competition for 30 schools to win a huge pile of brilliant comics.
The Phoenix - a weekly comic for children aged 6-12, is packed full of fun stories and information.
And now Booktrust are giving your students the chance to win possibly enough to give every single student in Key Stage 2 a copy of their own.
Enter before the closing date of 11pm on Monday, 17 June.
Individuals are welcome to enter on behalf of a school, but the prize will only be sent to a school address.
June is an exciting month for us here at the SLA, with the announcement of our honour list for School Librarian of the Year , our joint conference with YLG Building Identity, Building Readers between the 21st - 23rd and our awards ceremeony for SLYA on the 27th. With so much to celebrate we want to involve all school library staff in our library pride! We have enjoyed looking at the entries for CILIP SLG's recent photo challenge #slglibmaychallenge and we've decided to run our own challenge between 3rd - 27th June, with the emphasis on library staff. You can see the prompts below and the hashtag to use is #schllibstaffpride , we will be awarding a prize at the end to a consistent , inventive contributor so get your thinking caps on! Other exciting social media events to come, watch this space!
Keeping safe online are lessons which need to be taught to our children and young people. There are increasing numbers of books which tackle this subject and school librarians will be able to point young people towards. Childnet International have brought together young people in the UK, Hungary and Denmark to tackle online sexual harassment. They have created a series of films to look at this ever-present issue of sexual harassment on the internet. More details here
Tackling sexual harassment online
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What is your school doing for #Pyjamarama next week? Spread the word for bedtime stories which are so important to children and adults alike.
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