1. Laura Taylor Librarian City of London Academy Academies Lead Practitioner for Libraries Good School Libraries : Promoting Literacy, Inspiring Reading
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8. “ The school library is ideally placed to bring reading for pleasure to life” Paul Kropp “The Reading Solution” 1995 Strategies at City of London Academy: Creating a Reading Culture
PIRLS – Progress in International Reading Literacy Study conducted in England by the NFER PISA Programme for International Student Assessment A love of reading is more important for academic success than a family’s icome or class. Evidence from 31 countries showed that children from deprived backgrounds did better in tests than those from more affluent homes if they enjoyed reading comics, magazines, newspapers and books. Colorado Study has shown that school libraries can have a positive impact on reading scores and that students with access to well resourced libraries with well trained staff tend to achieve higher than average test scores regardless of catchment area
COLA Joint 6 th form and Staff book group. Students doing English A level are required to attend or they will lose their EMA! Meet twice a term in library after school Run by librarian and English teacher but attended by a wide cross-section of staff Budget? Staff buy own books Richard and Judy? Students select titles they would like to read. Mixture of the classics and some popular modern literature. First meeting get everyone to bring along a book they have read and enjoyed and would like to recommend – use that to draw up list of books to read over the year.
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