Promoting reading
The School Library Service supports reading and encourages a love of books among all ages. We provide:
- Curriculum and literacy related booklists
- Transition booklist leaflets for new Reception, Year 2/3, Year 6/7, and Year 8/9 pupils
- Family reading support
- Fiction meetings for teachers and librarians
- Staff meetings to promote new fiction
- Book week support
- Ideas for authors who can visit schools
- Resources support for author visits
- Database of book reviews
We also offer a range of reader promotion experiences:
- 'Meet the Author' events around the county
- Participation in our Hampshire Book Awards aimed at Year 1, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 8
- County wide Literature Quiz for secondary schools
- Reduced rates for reader promotion magazine, WRD About Books
