In this Newsletter:
- Register for the 2024/25 Picture Book Award
- Autumn CPD programme: Webinars and Primary Book Chat
- New Record Office resources on Amberley Castle
- More news from the SLS team and world of books and libraries.
- Green Libraries
Autumn Term 2024 Project Loan requests
It's not too late for schools who would like to request Project Loans for the autumn term. Project Loans can be requested via our online Project Loan form where you will be prompted to select the public library of your choice for collection. If you would like to find out more about about our Project Loan service, please call us on 01903 704828 or email and we will be happy to help.
Picture Books to Shout About! Award 2024/2025
Are you looking to develop pupils’ visual literacy, critical thinking, and listening and speaking skills through the sharing of books and discussion? You can also increase staff knowledge about the best new quality picture books while promoting positive attitudes to reading for pleasure throughout the school.
Sign up here to register for the 2024/2025 Picture Books to Shout About! Award
This year we are looking for one subscribing school to work alongside the Schools Library Service team to shortlist the four titles for this year’s West Sussex Picture Books to Shout About! Award. As an example, see below for the four shortlisted titles from last year's (2023 2024) Book Award. If you are interested in shortlisting then please click the button below to register your school's details.
The West Sussex SLS CPD programme for 2024-25 is now available. Read our newsletter to discover the themes for this year’s webinars and sign-up to our regular online SLS Primary Book Chats. See you there!
Two new free-to-access resource packs, both on the popular Key Stage 1 topic of castles, have been added to the West Sussex Record Office (WSRO) Services for Education page. The packs feature reproductions of documents held at WSRO – mostly illustrations and photographs – relating to castles across the counties of West and East Sussex.
The castles which feature are Amberley, Arundel and Bramber (West Sussex) and Bodiam, Hastings, Herstmonceux and Lewes (East Sussex). To access the resources, visit the Record Office pages on Services for Education.
Look out for more resource packs coming to the Record Office site soon, including one on the Monarchy for key stage 1.
 Don’t forget that the Record Office offer in-house literacy and numeracy workshops to small groups of students, which include a tour of the strongrooms and the chance to look closely at some of the historic documents. They can also visit your school to deliver local history workshops, which can be based on your local area or a range of themes: visit the Record Office pages on Services for Education or contact record.office@westsussex.gov.uk to find out more.
Have you seen our new Transition Reads collection for year 6?
We have a capsule collection in the Schools Library Service which contains stories aimed at 11+ readership. These are books which contain content more appropriate for a year 6 child and may include:
Relationships
Horror
Social Issues
If you have children in your year 6 class who are looking to extend their reading then please ask us for some transition reads. Look out for these story books on the shelf in the Mobile Library or request year 6 Transition reads in your Deliver and Collect exchange. You will be able to identify them by the small florescent yellow dot on the spine of the book.
Look out for the feature on 'Spotlight on Libraries' this week, on the West Sussex Library Service Instagram account. Why not keep up to date with West Sussex Schools Library Service events:
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News in the world of Books and Libraries
Waterstones Childrens’ Laureate – Reading Rights: Books Build a Brighter Future
Frank Cottrell-Boyce awarded the role as Waterstones Childrens’ Laureate 2024 to 2026
Frank Cottrell-Boyce is a multi award-winning children’s book author and screenwriter. Millions, his debut children's novel, won the prestigious CILIP Carnegie Medal. He also runs a podcast in partnership with Nadia Shireen, author and illustrator of the Grimwood series, called: The Island of Brilliant.
 Managed by BookTrust – the UK’s largest children’s reading charity – and sponsored by Waterstones, this role celebrates creativity and storytelling, promotes the vital importance of reading and children’s literature, and champions the right of every child to enjoy a lifetime enriched with books and stories. Each Laureate brings their own passion and creativity to their tenure.
Cottrell-Boyce pledges to address ‘invisible privilege and inequality’ within books and reading… 'Every child has to have the opportunity to begin to build the apparatus of happiness within themselves.’
The Schools Library Service will be celebrating Green Libraries Week along with West Sussex Libraries between Monday 7 and Sunday 13 October.
Did you know? The carbon footprint of a typical paperback is about the same as watching 6 hours of TV.
Making new books has an environmental footprint which includes cutting down trees, chemicals and water used in manufacturing and the transportation of raw materials/products. Every new book generates carbon emissions that are contributing to climate change so the more times each book is read, the more worthwhile that use of resources becomes.
You can download a booklist of recommended books on Environmental Science from our booklists pages on the Services for Education website. Subscribing schools may request any of the titles via our online Project Loan service.
Each Schools Library Service book is borrowed and read by many children, helping to cut carbon emissions and protect our environment for the future.
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