Lawley Primary School and Nursery

We opened our school library, back in September 2023. We regularly enjoy sharing our stories as classes in this space. We are delighted to be starting our parent morning and after school library sessions during autumn term 2. These sessions will give children and their parents/carers the opportunity to share stories, borrow books that can be taken home and take part in fun activities such as book mark making, writing book reviews, offer reading suggestions to peers and join in with book hunts, to spread our whole school love of reading. Our parent library sessions will be facilitated by our school librarians. We hope these sessions will give families the chance to celebrate the joy of reading together and help our children to continue to develop a lifelong love for books. Our Lawley primary school librarians also open our school library to pupils during playtimes and lunchtimes so children can change their books regularly and discuss their reading with their peers. Each year, we also hold a book fair in school, sharing new authors with our children and giving them the opportunity to purchase fiction and non-fiction books. Our next school book fair will be in November. Money raised helps to purchase new books for our classrooms and school library.  

Year 4 - Damien Harvey

Year 4 children were visiting by author Damien Harvey.  After studying one of his books as part of their English work, they worked with him to write their own stories. They were delighted when Damien chose some of them to publish on his website!

The Children hosted a World Book Day book and cake sale for the whole school. 

The children took part in a book cover selfie competition. Here are our winners. 

At Lawley Primary we foster a love of reading with our pupils. We regularly celebrate World Book Day and have special author and illustrator events. This year our pupils enjoyed dressing up, a book cover selfie competition, and a whole school book and cake sale.

Each of our classes has a well stocked library with a wide range of texts for the pupils. These libraries are regularly updated with new titles and supplemented with new books from the Schools Library Service each term. The pupils have a dedicated time each day in class to read for pleasure.

We continue to invest in our widely stocked reading scheme, including our range of titles specially written to engage boys (Project X).

Our teachers love to read to the pupils, and have a time each day for this in class. We also share stories online via Showbie, some examples of which can be found in the videos on this page.

Our pupils use Showbie as an online reading diary to develop a dialogue with their teacher about their reading. They share their reading with a variety of messages, photos and videos. Our parents love to contribute to this too.