Teachers, Local Education and Lewisham Libraries

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Here at Lewisham Libraries have over 27,000 books for Children and Young People in 13 different locations across the borough, with additional material available through the London Libraries Consortium.

These include a dedicated elibrary for eBooks/eAudio books, Picture books, Bilingual stories, Card books, Audiobooks, Large Print, DVDs, Easy stories, Poetry, Teen Fiction, Teen Non fiction, comics and much more. There is also a digital reference Library with 20 different databases including Oxford Reference, academic papers and historical newspapers.

We offer a wide range of regular activities for children including film screenings, coding clubs, and craft sessions.
We also do visits and offers for local schools, colleges, nurseries and health centres.

Visits and Partnerships with Lewisham Local Education


Lewisham Library staff regularly visit local educational organisations such as Nurseries, Primary schools, Secondary schools, colleges and Health Centres. We deliver books and read stories to classes and groups. This introduces them to a wide range of characters, stories and concepts.


 Please get in touch if you would like us to visit your organisation.

Nursery Visits

On our regular visits to local nurseries, library staff deliver a handpicked selection of about 30 books. We also read to the children and sing songs with them. Staff also deliver Book Start Treasure Packs annually.


 Please get in touch if you would like us to visit your organisation.

 

Class Visits for Primary Schools


Library staff also attend schools in Lewisham, they do talks at school assemblies and attend fetes and summer fairs. For the Summer Reading Challenge staff hand out awards and invite them to events happening in the library that they may be interested. There are also Primary schools that are branches of Lewisham Libraries, these are Haseltine and Rathfern schools. We also buy books and are hoping to set up a school library on our LMS (one card for school and the local library) at St Mary’s and St John the Baptist schools. The schools are fundraising towards this.

Year 7 Library Membership offer

Lewisham Library and Information Service are working with five schools to give a library card to all Year 7 students – and to show them the amazing range of services being a card-carrying member unlocks! The schools we are currently working with are: Sedgehill, Forest Hill Boys, Sydenham School, Bonus Pastor and Prendergast Vale.
 

The Lewisham Book Award and the Lewisham Book Challenge

These annual book prizes are awarded by the Borough’s secondary school children. Years 7 and 8 (11-13 year olds) read and decide on the Lewisham Book Award, but the voices of 13-14 year old Year 9 students matter most when it comes to the Book Challenge.
 


The highlight of the Awards is when students from all participating schools come together to champion one of the shortlisted books and to pitch to the Borough’s “dragons” – including two Lewisham public librarians last year. Every year the books are bought and displayed in libraries as well as in school libraries and we await the announcement of the winner with interest.


Lewisham Library Service staff now regularly attend the secondary school librarians meetings, so there should be an even closer working relationship in the future. We also work with Secondary Schools around the Summer Reading Challenge.
 

Lewisham Book Quiz


The Lewisham Book quiz is a book quiz, where students from local schools compete by answering questions on a variety of topics including :Uncover the Cove,  Fantasy/Sci Fi, Comedy, Film and TV, Classics, Characters – Harry Potter Special, Horror.



The annual quiz is attended by schools in Lewisham including
The Lewisham Book quiz  is put together by the Lewisham School Librarians Group and MCed and supported by Lewisham Libraries. The book quiz last year ably compered by our very own Andrew Mohammed.



Health Centres for Children




We attend all of Lewisham's Health Centres and arrange for Book Trust Baby Packs to be delivered across Lewisham.
 

Get in Touch

If you would like us to visit your nursery or school, please contact the Hub Library closest to you.
Lewisham Library
199-201 Lewisham High Street SE13 6LG
Tel: 020 8314 8430
Email: lewishamlibrary @lewisham.gov.uk

Downham Library
Bromley, BR1 5EP
Tel: 020 8314 9705
Email: downhamlibrary@lewisham.gov.uk

Library @Deptford Lounge
9 Giffin Street SE8 4RJ
Tel: 020 8314 7299
Email: deptfordlibrary@lewisham.gov.uk


Location: London Borough of Lewisham, UK

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