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