The Tower Hamlets Schools Library Services collection is continually evolving and we need you to tell us what you’re using (and not using!) in your classrooms.
We’re circulating this survey because:
- We want to ensure that we’re sending the most appropriate resources to our library users
- We want to ensure that we’re investing in new resources that teachers want to use
The survey lists the main resource types that we stock in the library. Please rate each one indicating how essential having this type of resource in your classroom is to your work.
If you feel there’s something we don’t already stock that you think we should, then there’s the option to add this, too.
This project created an educational programme for primary school children in Poplar featuring the Trust’s 150-year-old steam locomotive No 70 ‘Poplar’, one of the oldest operational in the UK.
We are delighted to announce that Serena Patel, author of the Anisha, Accidental Detective books, will be our headline act for World Book Day 2023, although this year we are celebrating it on Friday 3rd March 2023 to allow schools to hold their own events and activities on World Book Day itself.
Her talk is suitable for KS2 and KS3.
Jummy has won a place at the River School, the finest girls’ boarding school in Nigeria.
Railey dreams of winning the drone races with her bio-robotic gecko, but when a bounty hunter crashes their race, the pair are forced to flee to the feared Junker clans who mine the rubbish orbiting the Earth. Rescued by a couple of Junker kids, they discover a danger bigger than anything they’d imagined – but can three kids, a gecko and an ancient computer save the world against the huge trash bomb (and its power-crazed creator) threatening to destroy the world?.
Usha is devastated when her grandmother Kali Ma passes away. Then straight-talking Imtiaz arrives – her new adoptive sister – and the two girls clash instantly. They both feel lost. That is until Kali Ma’s ghost appears…with a task for them.
Eleven-year-old Danny Chung loves drawing more than anything – certainly more than maths, which, according to his dad and everyone else, is what he is ‘supposed’ to be good at. He also loves having his own room where he can draw in peace, so his life is turned upside down when a surprise that he’s been promised turns out to be his little, wrinkly, ex-maths-champion grandmother from China. What’s worse, Nai Nai has to share his room!
‘Hello! My name is Edie Eckhart and I’m eleven years old. I’m a little bit different. I have a disability called cerebral palsy, so I talk slowly and fall over a lot. It’s never really bothered me because I’ve never known anything else.’
With far-right Albion on the brink of war with Europe, ten-year-old Alan and his little brother Sam are sent away to safety. Dad tells Alan he has to be brave, like the superheroes he loves, but Alan isn’t too sure. He wants to be wherever Dad is – and anyway, can he really be sure who’s a hero and who’s a villain?
Yusuf’s older sister is getting married. He’s ready for the delicious food, the fun with his cousins and the many presents but he s NOT ready to take her place as the responsible one. His only option: cause some chaos and ruin the wedding.
