Tower Hamlets Schools Library Services

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  • Mental Health and Wellbeing

    Mental Health and Wellbeing

    Reading anything at all (except perhaps social media posts) can be highly beneficial to mental health and wellbeing.

    Reading Well for Children

    We have sets of Reading Well for Children for loan. The books were selected by The Reading Agency and are all recommended by health experts, as well as people with lived experience of the conditions and topics covered and their relatives and carers.

    Reading Well for children provides quality-assured information, stories and advice to support children’s mental health and wellbeing. Books have been chosen and recommended by leading health professionals and co-produced with children and families.

    The booklist is targeted at children in Key Stage 2 (aged 7-11), but includes titles aimed at a wide range of reading levels to support less confident readers, and to encourage children to read together with their siblings and carers.

    To request a set, please use the request form. Request for Resources Form

    We’ve also compiled some suggestions of books that specifically promote wellbeing and have put links to our library catalogue.

    Catalogue links

     

    Feel-Good Books

    A selection of funny or just life-affirming books to help bring a smile to your storytime.

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    Coping with loss and bereavement

    A selection of books to share with children dealing with loss.

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    Reading well for children

    Reading Well for children The Reading Agency have published a list of books to promote mental wellbeing for children.  All these titles are available to borrow from the Schools Library Service.  If your school subscribes, use the request form to order.

  • International Women’s Day

    International Women’s Day

    8th March is International Women’s Day

    From www.internationalwomensday.com the theme for 2021 is ‘Choose to Challenge’

    A challenged world is an alert world and from challenge comes change.
    So let’s all choose to challenge.

    How will you help forge a gender equal world?
    Celebrate women’s achievement. Raise awareness against bias. Take action for equality.

    Here’s a selection of books suitable for your schools for celebrating this day (at any time of the year!). Place any requests via www.towerhamlets-sls.org.uk/request

    THSLS International Womens Day Booklist

  • Contemporary Arab Arts in the curriculum

    Contemporary Arab Arts in the curriculum

    The Arab British Centre and HEC Global Learning are delighted to introduce their collaborative education resource, Exploring The Curriculum Through Contemporary Arab Arts: A Global Citizenship Guide for Schools, launched in July 2019.

    Over nearly 2 years, the Arab British Centre and HEC Global Learning have worked together and in schools to develop this resource which supports teachers with references to and examples of Arab arts and culture, all of which can be used within the National Curriculum. We’ve worked extensively with teachers themselves to devise this resource, which aims to showcase the diversity of the region, and the positive, contemporary contributions to arts and culture that artists from the region are making, from feminist hijabi rappers like Mona Haydar, to city-wide calligraffiti by El Seed.

    The Arab British CentreIn September 2017 a YouGov poll commissioned by the Arab News and the Council for the Advancement of Arab British Understanding illustrated worrying attitudes and misunderstandings of Arabs and Muslims in Britain. Of the 2142 British voters polled in the survey, 63% stated that they believe Arabs have failed to integrate themselves into British Society, and 41% believed that their presence has not been beneficial. Despite these strong opinions, 81% admitted that they knew little or nothing about the region. This Education Resource aims to provide a counter narrative to prevalent negative stereotypes, and introduce children to the Arab world in a positive way which encourages thought and understanding of all the globe’s citizens.

    Featuring resources and exercises for subjects including Literacy, Numeracy, Geography and more, the pack is specifically targeted for Key Stage 2 learners, but is adaptable to children – and adults! – of different ages and educational needs.

    DOWNLOAD THE RESOURCE HERE