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

The 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 and textiles. For an online project loan request use the Project Loan Request form attached below.

Block Loans

Expand the breadth of your library by adding 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 and classic children's books that will hold your children's attention without you having to maintain them.

Recommended Resources

See our recommended Fiction titles for each Key Stage selected over the last term.

Artefacts

The 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. Satisfy all the different learning styles in your class and make your topic live.

Textiles

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

Posters

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

Library Makeover

The Learning Resources and Advice Service will visit your library to ready you for inspections, help re-organisation or in preparation for a book week or promotional event.

Self-evaluation

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

Shadowing events

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

Courses

The Learning Resources and Advice Service run a number of courses 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 the Learning Resources and Advice Services.

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

The 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. If you would like to arrange a delivery to your nursery or to attend a workshop on how to make effective use of the Chests or if your child is not attending a nursery, please contact Steve Palmer 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