You Can’t Do It On Your Own: working in partnership

You can’t do it on your own! Working with partners inside and outside your school Laura Taylor, City of London Academy

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COLLABORATION

Aims of this session
To outline some of the ways in which I have collaborated with different groups and individuals
To share ways in which others have done so also.
To provide an opportunity for us all to think about how we might work with some of those we haven’t done so already.
To analyse what makes it work

“ Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together “
Vesta Kelly

Think about all the people or organisations you have links with as a school librarian.

Six degrees of separation

Just as a public library should be the hub of a local community a school library should be the hub of the school community………. in its widest sense.

It makes you more effective It adds value It makes things easier It makes you indispensible It makes things fun! Why collaborate?

Departments in School

"Where subject leaders collaborate with the librarian, sharing information about curriculum needs, students can be offered exciting learning experiences."
At the heart of learning: the role of the library in the specialist school © Specialist Schools and Academies Trust, 2008

Teaching Staff
“ Joint planning and partnerships between school librarians and teaching staff are essential to ensuring an integrated approach in promoting teaching and learning across the school.
There is much recent research on the powerful impact that properly staffed, resourced and used school libraries have on pupil achievement.”
Initial Investigation into the Continuing Professional Development ICT needs of School Librarians, Report for ICT Schools Division, DfES, July 2005

Key staff
Transition co-ordinator – Spelling Bee;
new KS3 Learning to Learn curriculum; storytelling day with local primaries
Literacy co-ordinator- Staff/6 th form Book Group; Literacy across the curriculum
Careers co-ordinator
E-learning co-ordinator- VLE
Network manager
Senco - reading buddies; trips to local bookshop; pupil library assistants; Greenaway
G& T co-ordinator

Depts. I have worked with
RS – Places of worship
PE- PRLS scheme
English – Spelling Bee/Background to novels
Maths-
History – historical novels; Famous people
Science – Space ( Year 7), KS4 coursework
Art- Greenaway, Japan Day, logo design
Food Tech- Food around the world
Geography- Volcanoes

Bookweeks
Booksales
Authors, poets, storytellers, cartoonists
Competitions
High profile event across the school
Big Read

Clubs/Groups
Joint staff and 6 th Form group
Carnegie
Manga
Debating Society
Theatre trips
Spelling Bee
Warhammer
Chess

http:// www.fronter.com/southwark

Feeder Primary Schools
Reading buddies
Greenaway
Bookweek events – storytelling sessions
Drama workshops
Advice and support on their own school library
Mini - SLS?
Joint book groups
Transition events

Other secondary schools
SELF group
Sharing stock
Shared initiatives and events
Support and ideas

Public Libraries
Summer Reading Scheme –Quest seekers and Teen Quest www.questseekers.org.uk
Events – invites/tickets
Student panels
Young Cultural Creators
TRGs
Staff /6 th form reading group
Storyteller
National Year of Reading co-ordinator?

LEA
Advisors?
NYR co-ordinators?
Governors – link governor
Training for our Reading Buddies
SLS

Why?
Lack of information about Year 6 reading experiences
Evidence of students’ academic regression by end of Year 7
Build relationships between key partners
Empower students
Encourage reading for pleasure

The Books!!

Evaluation of first year
Enthusiastic staff and students- a partnership
Over 200 students involved in 9 schools in pilot year- up to 1,000 in 19 schools this year
Over 600 books read
Over 200 pupils used the blog
145 thought the blog was a good idea
86 changed their attitude to reading for the better!
A third of our Year 7 intake took part in 2007

Teachers’ comments
“ I thought it was perfect! What a fantastic way to end year 6”
“ Pupils’ reading speed increased with the children trying to outdoing each other”
“ It opened my eyes to the benefits of online blogging and the blog motivated them to read more”
“ I got to read some interesting books and got to know the librarian and teachers at Bacons. We are really interested in doing some teacher exchange visits for next year”

“ It was great to meet the primary teachers and discuss the children’s reading. They wanted to know about our Year 7 curriculum and I learnt a lot about Year 6 teaching.”
“ It was wonderful. All the children were motivated to read more. We would like to explore video conferencing for next year.”

We would like to develop …
teacher exchanges so that year 6 and 7 teachers share their curriculum
video conferencing so that more schools can be involved and more contact can be made between teachers and pupils
the role of the year 7 pupils in presenting the shortlist to the primary schools through presentations
Cross- curricular links with Art and Drama depts.
www.southwarkbookaward.org.uk

Local colleges and Universities
Make contact.
Visits by you, HOFs, students
Loans
Reference access for students

Local Businesses?
Sponsorship
Reading support
Football clubs

Parents
Family Literacy
Library helpers
Bookweek events
Fund raising for library - PFTA

IDEAS? Discuss ways in which you have collaborated with others. What made it work? What were the issues/problems?

What about you?
Can we share some of the ways in which we have worked with others ?
Lewisham Kids Lit Quiz
Careers/Connexions service
Parents? Helping in the library? Reading Group? Warhammer? Chess? Reading support
Governors
LSAs
Students- Student Voice

Make links and forge connections
Exploit all opportunities
Offer to help
Get involved
Find your allies
Librarian as a catalyst

“ No-one wants advice, only collaboration” John Steinbeck

“ Those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed” Charles Darwin

“ Individually we are one drop. Together we are an ocean” Ryunosuke Saturo

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