objectives
- To support vision of all children at the school having a reading identity
- To create a library area that can be used as a teaching space for a whole class as well as a place for individual pupils to come and borrow books
- To feel like a real library as there is no library in the community
- To spread and pass on the love of reading and books
- To entice with the entrance to the library (including the door and wall space)
- To extend/spill out the library into the entrance, down the drive and into the community
- To provide mini community libraries (potentially for the driveway and surrounding areas) where people donate and borrow for free
- To include fiction and nonfiction books and show case a variety of reading materials
- To promote books, face out to attract attention
- To have ability to update wall displays and featured tabletop theme areas
considerations
- Opening a book is like opening a door to another world to explore
- The new library space at SCCEPS will be an immersive area to escape to another world
- The experience will start in the entrance lobby
- The door and wall area will be wrapped to look like a book so that you feel like you are opening a book when you enter the room
- Inside the library it will look like an enchanted forest like ones described in many children’s stories
- There will be nooks and places to relax and read independently as well as spaces for class reading, story telling thrones and woodland décor
elements
- Entrance to library
- Windows (including stain glass effect)
- Walls (inc paint, wallpaper, decals / wall stickers, 3d butterflies, quotes and framed book covers)
- Flooring
- Shelving (inc shelving units, low shallow display book shelves for picture books, rotating bookshelf for featured books
- Furniture & soft furnishings (inc teacher chair, low table, chairs, rug, cushions, ‘logs’, reading pods, cosy cove, other decor)
- Lighting (inc free standing ‘street’ lamp)
- Ceiling
- Community libraries
