Category: School & Library Visits
Hadley Learning Centre – Telford
I had a wonderful day yesterday, at the Hadley Learning Centre in Telford. It is an extraordinary Cathedral of Learning, comprising both Secondary and Primary Schools with Nurseries, Children’s Centre, Library, and Arts and Leisure centre, all built in a huge, circular donut of a building. The Library is fab, with a huge wall of…
Read A Million Words in Poole
The visit I made this week was part of the Read A Million Words in Poole campaign, which has been spearheaded by the pasionate Library Services Development Manager, John Lane. Frustrated that the Summer Reading Challenge fades out at the start of the new school year, he wanted something more permanent and continuing and so…
Branksome Library
This morning I visited Branksome Library, where I met children from Branksome Heath Middle School. Wendy, the library manager, didn’t want to be pictured a d i’m not allowed to take pictures of the children without permission, so I made them turn around and took a picture of the back of their heads!