Services to Schools - Learning Resources and Advice Service

Resource Loans for your school

The Learning Resources and Advice Service provides quality resources and advice for primary, secondary and special schools including books, artefacts, posters, textiles and help for librarians and teachers with professional and service development.

Quality Resources for your School

There are flexible payment schemes to meet your budget requirements through annual subscription and Pay As You Go. Current Charges are on the following page.

Project Loans

Learning Resources and Advice Service can provide you with topic collections tailored to each Key Stage that include fiction and non-fiction books, artefacts, posters, textiles, DVDs, whiteboard resources, teacher packs and storybags. For an online project loan request use the Project Loan Request form attached below.

Block Loans

Improve the breadth and range of your library by adding some of our stock to it for the year. Our resources are continually added to and selected by professional librarians to ensure you have access to the very latest children's books as well as the classics. Collections can be tailored to particular genres and audiences. Try something new in your library that will hold your children's attention without the risk of damage, loss or it just not being read.

Recommended Resources

See our recommended Fiction titles for each Key Stage.

Artefacts

Learning Resources and Advice Service has a large range of artefacts put together into themed collections ranging from seasons and holidays to Romans and the Second World War. Learning Resources and Advice Service also hold educational resources such as a Dark Den for conducting experiments with Light and religious artefacts from the major religions. Satisfy all the different learning styles in your class and make your topic live, see our pages on Solgrid for a complete listing.

Whiteboard resources

Learning Resources and Advice Service has a collection of DVDs and CD-Roms for you to use on your class whiteboard, subjects covered include science, history and geography topics.

Storybags

Learning Resources and Advice Service has a collection of storybags covering traditional tales, rhymes and modern classics. Each bag includes a story book and audio version, a game, an information book related to the story and puppets to help children remember and retell the story.

Textiles

Learning Resources and Advice Service has a collection of themed textiles to support your topics and displays.

Posters

Learning Resources and Advice Service poster collection graphically illustrates most curriculum areas to support your topic requirements.

Book Weeks & Library Presentation

Learning Resources and Advice Service can offer advice and support for book weeks, such as helping to find an author, storytelling book loans or creating displays, and in assisting library refurbishment. Learning Resources and Advice Service can visit your library to ready you for inspections, help re-organisation or in preparation for a promotional event.

Self-evaluation

Learning Resources and Advice Service will visit your library and help you to devise a structured development action plan to work towards the DCSF quality framework.

Shadowing events

Learning Resources and Advice Service will help you organise a shadowing group for the major book awards and for following the  Solihull Children's Book Award.

Workshops

Learning Resources and Advice Service run a number of workshops over the year from the 'Art of Display' to 'Self - evaluation of school library', to see what is coming up and to book a place please see our Courses and Events page.

Keynotes

The Keynotes is a webpage made available to you to exchange information about what's happening in your school library. Share your ideas, events and good practice by filling in the Comments form, linked below.

Subject Index for the Primary School Library

This is a useful booklet to help children discover their school library and use it more confidently. It can be obtained free-of-charge by contacting Learning Resources and Advice Services. New edition available from Summer 2009.

Class Visits

Arrange a visit for your class to visit their local Solihull Library. This is a good way to familiarise your pupils with the way a library works, how to find a book and information, hear about the latest children's fiction and the range of activities available to them (homework clubs, summer reading challenge, reading groups etc.) at their local library. Make sure all your pupils have a library card. Please contact your local library.

Treasure Chest

Learning Resources and Advice Service organises the distribution of the My Bookstart Treasure Chest to all children aged three in the borough. The Treasure Chests are mainly distributed through nursery settings in maintained and independent schools. If you would like to arrange a delivery to your nursery or if your child is not attending a nursery, please contact the Bookstart team on 0121 704 6984.

Tell us what you think

We would appreciate any comments or suggestions you may have on our services. Please spare a moment to complete our on-line comments form below.

Contact Details

Please contact us if you need further information.

Learning Resources and Advice Service
Central Library,
Homer Road, Solihull, B91 3RG.

Email: sls@solihull.gov.uk

Telephone: 0121 704 6984
Fax: 0121 704 6991