Reading for Pleasure programmes

Reading for Pleasure programmes

Learning Resources & Advice Service is a partner in a number of initiatives with national government and other partner organisations to promote reading for pleasure for children and young people.

Book Ahead

Book Ahead is a new initiative for 2008, funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families, to enable public library services to loan books to all full day care nurseries in Solihull.

Book Ahead aims to support early years workers with the resources to encourage all staff to share books with young children and pass on their enthusiasm to parents and children.

Book Ahead aims to strengthen links between public libraries and early years settings. Book Ahead supports effective practice in the Early Years Foundation Stage and the objectives of Every Child Matters.

Nurseries offering full day care are eligible for loans of 40 library books changed every three months through to Spring 2009. Collections come with a free booklist for 0-7 year olds and a Toolkit of ideas and resources to make the most of the books.

Nurseries will also be offered free storytelling workshops in October. Nurseries can take part in the Book Ahead Rhyme Revolution, a challenge to teach children at least ten traditional nursery rhymes by October 2008. Children taking part will receive a certificate if they attend a rhyme time at a Solihull Library in Children’s Book Week, 6th to 10th October 2008.

The Toolkit and worksheets are available here: Book Ahead Toolkit

Boys into Books Primary

Boys into Books Primary is a new initiative for 2008, funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families, to enable public library services to loan books to primary schools that have a particular appeal for boys.

In Solihull schools will be offered free collections of 45 books for termly loans in Autumn 2008 and Spring 2009. A Boys into Books Conference in partnership with Coventry and Warwickshire will be delivered to launch the programme and there will be author visits later in the year. The collections will come with a booklist of recommended books for boys aged 5-11 years old and a Toolkit of ideas and resources to help make the most of the collections.

The Boys into Books Primary Toolkit is available here

Boys into Books Pupil Referral Units

Boys into Books Pupil Referral Units is a new initiative for 2008, funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families, to enable public library services to loan books to Pupil Referral Units. All PRUs will receive a free collection of 30 books and visits from specialist librarians to promote them.

Booktime

Booktime is now in it’s second year and is a partnership between DCSF, the educational publishers Pearson and Booktrust.

Every child in a reception class or home educated four to five year olds will receive a bag with two books and a book of guidance materials for parents by half-term of the Autumn term 2008. The books this year are Ian Whybrow’s Harry and the dinosaurs go to school and a special abridged edition of the Puffin Book of Fantastic First Poems.

  

Solihull Libraries will commission a programme of family learning activities in schools and in community libraries to support this programme in Spring 2009.

If you are home educating your child and they are of reception class age, please contact Learning Resources & Advice Service on 0121 704 6984 or by email to arrange how to receive your child’s pack

For more information on Booktime please visit their website.

Booked Up

Booked Up is a national programme run by Booktrust and supported by the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

Booked Up is in it’s second year and offers all Year 7 pupils in England a free book that they can choose from a list of 12 specially selected titles. Visit the Booked Up website to see this year's booklist.

If your child is home educated and would otherwise be in Year 7, please speak to the Booked Up customer services team on 0845 606 4262 to receive your free book.

For more information on Booked Up visit their website.

Contact:
Contact Learning Resources and Advice Service
Central Library,
Homer Road,
Solihull.
B91 3RG.
Tel 0121 704 6984
Fax 0121 704 6991
Email: mailto:sls@solihull.gov.uk