Devon School Library Service Newsletter October 2023

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October 2023

School Library Service

Centre news for October

There's still time to take advantage of this term's special offers.

Save £115 on Library Advisory time, now only £250.
Choose a 6 hour visit for a full audit, including detailed report and recommendations OR refresh your library with a thorough weed and detailed report.

25% discount, all books purchased through the School Library Service will receive 25% off rrp and come with plastic jackets, stationery and free delivery.

We will be at the Early Year's Foundation Stage Conference being held at Sandy Park on Thursday 5 October, please come and say hello and find out how the school library service can support you and your learners.

Email us for full details

School library network meetings

Brightly coloured book spines with wording 'School Library Service Network Meetings'

Our library network meetings are free of charge!!. They are led by the SLS advisory team and are a source of up-to-date information, the sharing of ideas and good practice.

Primary Meetings

Wednesday 18 October, on-line meeting via Teams
Thursday 19 October at Sacred Heart RC Primary

Focus: A few highlights from The Reading Framework (DfE July 2023) and how DSLS can help.

Secondary Meetings

Wednesday 15 November at King Edward VI Community College, Totnes
Thursday 16 November at Braunton Academy

Focus: Promoting your library, how to get noticed by Ofsted and advocacy.

All meetings begin at 1.30pm, book your place now.

Book onto a network meeting

15 titles for October

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Each month the advisory team collate lists for KS1, KS2 and Teens on topical themes.

As we head into autumn and with Christmas on the horizon, this month's 15 titles are a collection of seasonal reads. Get cosy with a mystery story, thrill your class with Halloween horror or satisfy curiosity with some seasonal non-fiction.

Download the 15 Titles booklists

BookWrites

The English Team's BookWrites lists (Texts That Teach) are the carefully selected texts that the BookWrites teaching sequences are based on.

There are a great many wonderful texts out there to share with children. However, a great deal of thought has gone into the choosing the ones to write teaching sequences for.

The school library service have prepared booklists to support this learning programme.

Downoad the BookWrites booklists

Suggested reading lists - New!!

Our Suggested Reading lists for Nursery through to KS4 have now been updated for 2023/24.

Our School Library Advisors have chosen the best reads within different genres for each year group.

We will be publishing new book banded lists soon, so keep an eye out for those.

Download the Suggested Reading booklists

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