We opened our school library, back in September 2023. We regularly enjoy sharing our stories as classes in this space. We were delighted to offer our parent morning and after school library sessions during our Autumn and Spring terms. These sessions offered children and their parents/carers the opportunity to share stories, borrow books that could be taken home and children could take part in fun activities such as book mark making, writing book reviews, offer reading suggestions to peers and to join in with book hunts, to spread our whole school love of reading. This keeps reading at Lawley relevant and motivating. Our parent library sessions were facilitated by our amazing school librarians. These sessions had a great turn out and it was lovely to give families the chance to celebrate the joy of reading together and to work with parents to help our children to continue to develop a lifelong love for books.
Our Lawley Primary School librarians also open our school library to pupils during playtimes and lunchtimes so children can change their books regularly and discuss their reading with their peers. Each year, we also hold a book fair in school, sharing new authors with our children and giving them the opportunity to purchase fiction and non-fiction books. Our next school book fair will be in the autumn term. Money raised helps to purchase new books for our classrooms and school library. We have recently purchased dual language books to ensure all our children can hear themselves as successful readers and through reading we can create belonging, comfort and growth.
