The document discusses strategies for creating a dynamic school library that is at the heart of the learning community. It recommends that librarians work closely with teachers and senior managers to develop library provision that supports teaching and learning. Effective school libraries have well-trained librarians who collaborate with staff, promote independent learning and reading, and help evaluate the library's impact on student achievement.

1. Creating a dynamic library at the heart of your academy Laura Taylor and Pauline Guiney Librarians, Academies Lead Practitioners for Librarianship City of London Academy and Capital City Academy

2. So which is your situation?

4. is at the heart of a school learning community. It can provide a flexible place for learning where project work, individual study and group research can take place. [It] can provide young people with the means to freely pursue subjects which fully engage them, and promote wider reading. Good libraries can also support teachers in adopting a broad range of teaching strategies. Charles Clarke Improve your library: a self-evaluation process for secondary school libraries (DfES 2004) A dynamic school library : ‘ It is important for headteachers, senior managers and librarians to work together to develop library provision that benefits the whole school and it’s pupils’ Miriam Rosen OFSTED’s Director of Education Good School Libraries; Making a Difference to Leaning (Guardian 21/3/2006

8. Which one are you?

10. “ The school library is ideally placed to bring reading for pleasure to life” Paul Kropp “The Reading Solution” 1995 Strategies: Create a Reading Culture

14. Very Poor Literacy Costs of crime Health Costs Educational costs: special needs support Educational costs: behaviour, exclusion, truancy Cost of unemployment and low wages

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26. SOME READING STARS!

27. Reading Buddies

31. A diagnostic report looks like this. NB no code means good progress – shower your pupils with praise!

32. May 2008 Wow! Students in 7B have earned 655 points!

33. May 2008 Students in 7B have passed over 100 quizzes. Well done!

39. www.wordle.net

43. A Hotlist of Book Websites www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listbookwebla.html A Hotlist of Word Games www.kn.att.com/wired/fil/pages/listwordgamla.html Boox – new website www.readingagency.org.uk/projects/children/boox.html

46. Information literacy is the ability to know when there is a need for information, to be able to identify, locate, evaluate and effectively use that information for the task in hand. National Forum on Information Literacy, USA 2005 The school library offers learning services, book and resources that enable all members of the school community to become critical thinkers and effective users of information in all formats and media. IFLA/UNESCO School Library Manifesto STRATEGIES: INFORMATION LITERACY