Weekend Course 2009 Programme

10.00
Registration from 10.00 a.m. (Foyer of Austin Pearce Building)

10.30 - 13.00
Visit to Guildford High School and George Abbot School

14.00 - 14.15
Welcome and introduction: Geoff Dubber, Chair of the SLA, and Course Directors (Management School Building)

14.15 - 15.15
Jonathan Douglas Director, National Literacy Trust - keynote address (Management School Building)

15.15 - 16.00
Opening of exhibition and bookshop: Tricia Adams, Director SLA
Refreshments with Matt Whyman, sponsored by Walker Books (Exhibition Area - Austin Pearce Building)

16.00 - 17.15
Nikki Heath, SLYA Winner 2008, and Sally Westrope, Literacy Coordinator, Werneth School, Stockport (Management School Building)

18.30 - 19.30
Dinner (Seasons Restaurant)

19.45 - 20.30
Drinks Reception with Sally Nicholls in conversation, sponsored by Scholastic (Lower Concourse, Lecture Block)

20.45 - 21.45
The Two Steves (Lecture Theatre, Lecture Block)

22.00 - 00.00
Bar and book signing (Wates House)

07.30 - 08.30
Breakfast (Seasons Restaurant)

08.00 - 08.45
Registration for day delegates (Foyer - Austin Pearce Building)

08.50 - 09.00
Welcome and introduction to the day - Course Directors (Management School Building)

09.00 - 09.30
Andrew Fusek Peters and Polly Peters (Management School Building)

09.30 - 11.00
Optional session 1
See list of optional sessions below (Management School Building)

11.00 - 11.45
Literary coffee break with Barry Cunningham and Chicken House authors, sponsored by Chicken House (Exhibition Area - Austin Pearce Building)

11.45 - 13.15
Optional session 2
See list of optional sessions below (Management School Building)

12.45 - 14.00
Lunch (Seasons Restaurant)

14.15 - 15.45
Optional session 3
See list of optional sessions below (Management School Building)

15.45 - 16.30
Authors working with publishers - Gillian Cross, sponsored by Oxford Children's Books (Exhibition Area - Austin Pearce Building)

16.30 - 17.30
Optional session 4 = Seminar
(choose one of A, B, C, D from seminar list below) (Management School Building)

18.45
Bar open throughout evening (Seasons Restaurant)

19.00 - 20.30
Dinner (Seasons Restaurant)

20.30 - 21.00
Gervase Phinn, SLA President (Seasons Restaurant)

21.00 - 21.45
Salsa (Seasons Restaurant)

21.45 - 22.15
Interval

22.15 - 23.00
Salsa

08.00 - 09.00
Breakfast (Seasons Restaurant)

08.30 - 09.15
Registration for day delegates (Foyer - Austin Pearce Building)

09.15 - 09.45
SLA AGM (Management School Building)

09.45 - 10.00
Polish Project Report (Management School Building)

10.00 - 11.00
Wendy Cooling - Keynote address (Management School Building)

11.00 - 11.45
Coffee with Meg Rosoff (Exhibition Area - Austin Pearce Building)

11.45 - 13.00
Words and Pictures: Graphic Novels, a Partnership of Words and Pictures
Sponsor: Walker Books (Management School Building)

13.00 - 13.15
Closing remarks: Geoff Dubber, Chair of the SLA (Management School Building)

13.15 - 14.30
Lunch (Seasons Restaurant)

1. The Snowball Effect: Creating Layers
An interactive workshop that looks at how you can build on a simple idea or event to create a cross-curricular project involving internal and/or external partnerships. Participants are welcome to bring along their own ideas for exploration.
Barbara Band Head of Library and Resources, Emmbrook School, Berkshire

2. S'WOT's This All About? Inter-planetary Communication Between Schools!
Two librarians from different planets talk about their experience of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of working together and will lead a discussion with delegates on how to move this exciting initiative forward towards developing their own inter-school partnerships.
Gaynor Cooper Librarian, Abingdon School, and Frances Stott Librarian, Larkmead School, Oxfordshire

3. The Big Leap: Library Transition from Sixth Form into Higher Education
Moving from the familiarity of the school library to using complex HE library resources and services can be a challenge especially when basic study and information literacy skills also need honing. Come along to consider and reflect on the issues.
Geoff Dubber Education, Libraries and Learning, a freelance trainer and consultant, is currently Chair of the SLA (2008-2010) and has been Publications Coordinator for well over a decade.

4. Extending the Reach of Libraries: Effective Partnerships in Reader Development
This session will explore how libraries can work in partnership with other organisations to achieve greater outcomes for children and young people. The workshop will explore what ingredients make a successful partnership through a case study, the ‘Reading Voyage’.
Ayub Khan Head of Libraries (Strategy) for Warwickshire County Council

5. Young Cultural Creators
How YCC works, the partnerships, the buttons it hits, the outcomes it achieves. Including a taste of a YCC creative experience and how The Holocaust Centre, Newark, and Ellis Guilford School and Sports College, Nottingham, worked in partnership, investigating the impact of racism and discrimination, in order to engage young people and stimulate their creativity.
Tricia Kings Consultant, The Reading Agency, and Katherine Davison, Ellis Guilford School, Nottingham

6. Tips On How To Succeed With Bids
This workshop will include a short introduction to how to prepare your bid, including reasons why applications fail/succeed. This will be followed by a practical exercise looking at meeting the criteria.
Rosalind Robinson Children and Young People's Librarian: Reader Development, Northamptonshire Libraries

7. Bridging the Divide: Transition Activities Provided by the LRC
How can you welcome all newcomers to your school and make them aware of what the LRC can provide? This workshop will cover a variety of ways in which you can make this happen both in and outside school!
Anne-Marie Tarter School Librarian, Ripon Grammar School, North Yorkshire

8. You Can't Do It On Your Own!: Working With Partners Inside and Outside Your School
A seminar which looks at links with departments in school, primary feeder schools, other secondary schools, public libraries, schools' library services, Connexions, parents. The seminar also includes the primary/secondary transition looking at the Southwark Book Award, reading groups, Greenaway shadowing and Bookweeks.
Laura Taylor Librarian, City of London Academy, London

9. Author Allies, Poet Partners and Story Stars: Working with Creative Guests
Writers, storytellers, illustrators... creative visitors to school can give a boost to borrowing, a highlight in a book event, and a great way to partner with other teaching staff. This session looks at good practice in organising visits: essential preparation, top tips, and all-important follow-up.
Alec Williams Freelance trainer

A. Revisiting Classic Stories
Melvin Burgess Author (Sponsored by Andersen Press)

B. Local Book Award: A Match Made in Heaven
How to set up a local book award, including how to form partnerships with public libraries, schools' library services, extended schools, local education authorities, museums and the private sector to create a reading community.
Lyn Hopson School Librarian, Don Valley School and Performing Arts College and Lesley Hurworth School Librarian, Armthorpe School, Doncaster

C. Library 2.0: Can Web-based Collaboration Make a Difference in School Libraries? Examples of Collaboration Tools and What They Could Do For Your Library
Can existing and emerging technologies be used to strengthen library partnerships? What technologies are out there? How are they being used in other industries? And how can they be applied to your needs? This seminar will look at a range of free technologies that can be harnessed by librarians to forge more and better partnerships with each other, their users and the wider community.
Alex Isaachson Director of IT, Cheltenham College

D. Primary Partners - SLSs Working With Primary Schools
How can you best help your local primary school to develop their library? An opportunity for SLS staff to reflect on their practice and share techniques. Also suitable for primary school library staff working in partnership with SLS staff.
Kathy Lemaire Former Chief Executive, School Library Association

• University of Surrey
  Guildford
  Surrey
  GU2 7XH
  Tel. +44 (0) 1483 300800/686767
  http://www.surrey.ac.uk/conferences

• Elizabeth Smith
• Lin Smith
• Duncan Wright 

Closing Date

• Friday 22 May 2009
  Earlybird discounts apply to bookings received before 31 March 2009

For any further information about this course, please contact:

• Dawn Barras Weekend Course Administrator
  School Library Association
  Unit 2, Lotmead Business Village
  Wanborough, SWINDON SN4 0UY, United Kingdom
  
  Tel. 01793 791787
  Fax 01793 791786
  E-Mail: weekendcourse(@)sla.org.uk
  Web: http://www.sla.org.uk/

Should unforeseen circumstances force you to cancel your booking, please contact the SLA office immediately in order that your place may be re-allocated from our waiting list.

Cancellations received up to 1 June 2009 are refundable minus a £35.00 (€40.00) administration charge. After that date, cancellations are subject to 50% of the course fee. If you do not cancel or attend, the full fee will be charged. Please contact the SLA if you wish to send a substitute delegate.

We would like to thank our sponsors for their support of the Weekend Course 2009. Full details are listed on our separate sponsors page.