New this term

Suffolk Children's Book Award Shortlist announced

View the five shortlisted titles for this new prize for the best children's book of the last ten years.

Summer Term INSET courses from SLS

Including for Primary and Middle schools:

Information literacy for Key Stage 1
Too old for Picture Books?
Running a Successful Reading Club

For Middle and High schools:

Making the Most of Pupil librarians
Running a Successful Reading Group
Resourcing the needs of the EAL child

For further information about our courses, please see the Training Courses page.

Author suggestion posters – new from Schools Library Service

Reading suggestion poster example: adventure

Do your pupils need help to broaden their choice of reading? Do they get stuck on certain authors or series?

Help children to find new reading choices with our new range of author suggestion posters - these full colour, laminated posters each have a popular author, series or genre as a starting point, with suggestions of other, similar authors to read.

Available in sets of ten posters for KS2, and in sets of five posters for KS3.

Prices (per set, consisting of 1 copy of each poster) are detailed below and available in either A4 or A3 versions.

Poster Set	Poster Subject/theme	A4	A3
Key Stage 2 (PDF, 892Kb) - 10 posters	Sports stories Adventure stories Alex Rider Animal stories Funny stories Horrid Henry Jacqueline Wilson Lemony Snicket Scary stories Fantasy stories	£10	£25
Key Stage 3 (PDF, 408Kb) - 5 posters	Thrillers Fantasy Horror stories Jacqueline Wilson Spy stories	£6	£16

Print out an order Print order form here (Word, 44Kb).

For further information, please contact Paul Cunningham on 01284 352367 or email: paul.cunningham@libher.suffolkcc.gov.uk.

Library Clue-finder chart and subject index

Help your children to find non-fiction books independently using our Library Clue-finder chart and subject index.

SLS have produced three products to help both teachers and children to organise and locate non-fiction books in their school library:

Front Cover for School Library Subject Index for Primary Schools

School Library Subject Index for Primary Schools (PDF, 220Kb)

A4 book format
A comprehensive alphabetical list of subjects, together with their Dewey numbers and colour codes.
Useful for teachers to use, both for classifying books and to find books and for older KS2 pupils to use to locate books.

All subscribing schools receive 1 copy of this new edition – further copies are available at £3.75 each for subscribing schools or £4.50 for non-subscribing schools.

"Library Clue-finder" Subject Index (A4 book format) (PDF, 67Kb)
A reduced version of the main Subject Index to make it easier for children in Years 2,3 and 4 to use to find books for themselves.
Again all subscribing schools will receive 1 copy free of charge - further copies are available to purchase - why not order a class set or helf-set?

£1.50 each, £1.20 each for 10 copies or more (for subscribing schools)
£1.80 each, £1.45 each for 10 copies or more (for non-subscribing schools)

“Clue-finder” wall chart (2xA3 laminated wallcharts) (Word 1.58Mb)

Lists 32 of the most popular and commonly stocked non-fiction subject areas in alphabetical order – see sample image below.
Ideal for introducing the principle of a subject index to younger children.
A great visual reminder for older KS2 children.

Only £5 per chart for subscribing schools, £6 for non-subscribing schools

Print order form for all three items here (Word 34Kb).

Library Subject Index for Middle and High schools (PDF, 93Kb)

We have produced a revised and update version of our alphabetical subject index for use in high and middle school libraries. Many new subjects have been included, and the Dewey classifications have been fully updated to the 22nd edition of DDC.

All schools subscribing to SLS have been sent 1 copy free of charge - further copies are available to purchase at £6 each for subscribing schools (£5 each for 15 copies or more) or £7 each for non-subscribing schools.
Print order form here.