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Prity Shah
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Chartered School Librarian, Committee Member Cilip School Libraries Committee
@carnegiemedals.bsky.social @cilipslg.bsky.social An enjoyable day spent with Barnet school librarians and students following Carnegie Medals where every school presented their shortlisted book. Votes were taken for the most popular book and King of Nothing was the winner.
June 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Just a reminder that this FREE online book launch is next Wednesday 18th June at 6:30 pm. Register with SailFest and receive the link!
ALSO we have giveaways of all three beautiful books!
#kidlituk
#kidlit
#weneeddiversebooks #readingforpleasure
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June 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Thank you for this valuable freebie. Chuffed to receive a free copy for my schoollibrary
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June 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Just over a week left to sign up to this amazing CPD training on AI in Education. @cilip.bsky.social
🤖📚 Join us on Sat 14 June 2025 for AI in Education: Challenges, Opportunities and the Role of Libraries — an online event exploring AI’s impact on education and school libraries! £25/£35 | 9:30–11:30 | Zoom
Find out more & register 👉 londonslg.wordpress.com/book-here/ @cilip.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Join us at our online public Town Halls or roadshow sessions with member networks to share what you think CILIP should achieve by 2030 to help the profession grow its impact. We're consulting on our new 5-year strategy and we'd like to hear from you: www.cilip.org.uk/news/news.as...
Help shape CILIP’s new strategy for 2026–2030
CILIP is developing a new strategy for 2026–2030. Can you help to shape a future where libraries and knowledge services thrive and lead in a fast-changing world?
www.cilip.org.uk
May 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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SecEd Podcast: In a new episode, we speak to school #librarians to ask what makes for excellent #library provision in the secondary school, including ideas for supporting #curriculum delivery, #literacy & the library's wider role: buff.ly/hFbDpWV #GreatSchoolLibraries #edusky
The SecEd Podcast: A brilliant secondary school library - SecEd
In this episode, we consider what makes for excellent library provision in the secondary school, including ideas for supporting literacy and curriculum delivery.
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May 7, 2025 at 5:00 AM
School librarians you need this CPD - sign up!
🤖📚 Join us on Sat 14 June 2025 for AI in Education: Challenges, Opportunities and the Role of Libraries — an online event exploring AI’s impact on education and school libraries! £25/£35 | 9:30–11:30 | Zoom
Find out more & register 👉 londonslg.wordpress.com/book-here/ @cilip.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Scholastic are delighted to be the official book supplier for the Carnegie Awards 2025
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Book places at their week of online book events, from 28th April – 2nd May, to celebrate the shortlist for secondary schools at
shop.scholastic.co.uk/the-carnegie...
April 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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@empathylabuk.bsky.social are running two fab April training sessions on Reading for Empathy—one on boys & reading, one on school transitions. SLG price: £15! 👉 empathylab.uk/short-traini...
Don’t miss the Empathy Day Festival this June! 👉 empathylab.uk #EmpathyDay @cilip.bsky.social
April 16, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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#WeNeedDiverseBooksDay is next week! We're looking forward to celebrating with you all! 📚❤️
April 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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AI vs Teachers -Can AI replace educators? This weeks newsletter. #Aiedu #AI #TLSky #EduSkyAi open.substack.com/pub/aischool...
AI vs. Teachers: A Battle for the Future of Education?
The rapid advancement of AI in education has sparked heated debates about its potential to replace or enhance human educators.
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April 1, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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📢 Join us for the SLG AGM! 📢
🗓 Tuesday, 18th March
⏰ 7:00–8:30 pm (Zoom)
Featuring talks from:
✨ Louis Coffait-Gunn (CILIP CEO) & Jo Morgan (Author) Free to attend!
Register here 👉 cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#SchoolLibraries #SLGAGM #CILIP #JoMorgan #Education
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February 21, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This is a helping hand for new school librarians. Ideas for World Book Day.
Looking for creative ways to celebrate
@worldbookdayuk.bsky.social? The
@cilipslg.bsky.social committee shares their best ideas. Get inspired & make reading magical!!!! londonslg.wordpress.com/2025/02/19/c... #SchoolLibraries #ReadingForPleasure
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February 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Caroline Roche our amazing chair has written a reflective blog about the amazing year that SLG had in 2024. You can read the blog in the following link: londonslg.wordpress.com/2025/01/14/l... Here's to an impactful 2025 with more training, advocacy, & community growth. @cilip.bsky.social
Looking back at SLG in 2024
At the start of this new year, we thought we would have a look back at 2024, and all the things that SLG has been involved in on your behalf.  It has certainly been a busy year – and quite a l…
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February 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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📚 Holocaust Memorial Day in the Library 🎗️
SLG’s Anaïs Cayzac shares a powerful blog on using White Bird by R.J. Palacio to teach empathy, kindness & remembrance. Includes a memorial display & creative activities. Read more 👉 londonslg.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/h...
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Holocaust International Day of Commemoration: a special library lesson
The 27th of January marks the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. On this day, we pause to honour the lives lost and reflect on the enduring lessons of his…
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February 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Thinking about Chartership? Join CILIP SLG for a free online practical workshop with experienced mentor Barbara Band! She’ll show you how to link your school library projects to the PKSB and portfolio evidence. More info in the following link: cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
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February 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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🚀 Join Us at the FOSIL Symposium: Revolutionising Education Through Inquiry 🌍 We invite you to be part of a transformative event exploring the power of inquiry-based learning. Secure your place today! fosil.org.uk/event/fosil-...
January 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I'm a huge fan of Kwame Alexander. Would love to have this sequel. Thanks
Andersen Press accidentally sent me more than one finished copy of Kwame Alexander's new YA book, 'Black Star', sequel to 'The Door of No Return'. If you're UK based & would like an early copy (publishes in feb) then just share this post by Friday 17th Jan & I'll pick 1 person to send a copy!
January 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Happy new year! RP to win a copy of 'Beyond the Secret Garden' by Darren Chetty & Karen Sands O’Connor. Trace how Black & racially minoritised characters have been represented in ‘the secret garden’ of British children’s literature from its earliest stages.
January 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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How can our sector spot and challenge fake news and misinformation? Follow these 8 simple steps from @iflaglobal.bsky.social giving you practical advice on how to verify what you're reading and check that what you're reading is telling you the truth. #FactsMatter www.ifla.org/news/how-to-...
January 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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56 small tasks to be proactive against book censorship in 2025. Choose one per week to help ensure that public goods like schools & libraries remain viable democratic institutions & to protect our most vulnerable populations.

Book censorship is about more than books.

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56 Small Tasks to Be Proactive Against Book Censorship in 2025 and Beyond: Book Censorship News, January 3, 2025
Choose one task each week of 2025 for a year full of anti-book censorship activism and advocacy.
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January 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Hello children's book lovers. Here's my first Reading Matters Children's Book News round up of 2025.

A look back at the best of 2024, a preview of books in the coming months. There are free events & resources too so why not settle down and explore. #UKKidLit
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Reading Matters – Children’s Book News
Welcome to the first Reading Matters newsletter of 2025 and I hope that everyone had a happy and healthy Christmas holiday. Happy New Year to you and I hope that 2025 is a good year for you and you…
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January 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Calling all teachers to enter their class in The Book That Represents Me competition @booktrust.bsky.social www.booktrust.org.uk/what-we-do/p.... Guest judges are @sharnajackson.com & @michaelmann.bsky.social with MOST AMAZING PRIZES inc £3000 of books (thank you @enterprisemobility.bsky.social)
Competition: The Book that Represents Me
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January 6, 2025 at 2:53 PM