We are delighted to announce that after significant planning within school we are making a number of changes to some of the rooms which will allow us to create a wonderful new library in the centre of the school.
We are converting our current SEND room into a small group room to enable more efficient catch up teaching to groups of up to 16 children, our SEND and nurture room will relocate to the current library room by the school office.
In addition, the ICT suite is being partially re-configured to have some PCs in the centre of the room, we are delighted to say that funding from the Friends will help us to replace the old PCs in the suite, so that within the year we will have 17 brand new PCs in this space – thank you so much to the Friends and the families that contributed to their fundraising.
By making these changes it means that our new library can now take pride of place in the area in front of the ICT suite, with direct access from the corridor and opposite the Reflective area in the Gilder Garden.
The new bright and colourful Library design has to accommodate a large volume of non-fiction books (over 30 metres of them) for the children to access for their class topic research. The fiction libraries will remain in bookcases in each classroom. The new space will include a reading nook for the teacher to read to their seated class for F/KS1, or just to be used as a 1:1 space for a child and adult to read together.
We are pleased to be able to fund this transformation through our school budget.
If parents would like to make a donation of any
amount for us to put towards some new seating for small groups in the library
and some book display accessories then we would be absolutely delighted for you
to do so. We have set up a ‘Library
Donation’ option in ParentMail which you will find in the ‘shop’ section, this
will be accessible from 26 May to 30 June, thank you.
We look forward to sharing the launch of the library with the children in the summer term.
