Learning Resources for Education

Places where kids eat for free, or for £1, during the Easter holidays! 🐰🥚

We are devastated that our libraries colleague and friend Liam has passed away. Many of the staff at LRE have worked with Liam over the years, and many of our schools in the Rushden area will know him him from Rushden Library. Our deepest condolences go out to his family and friends.

We don't just loan resources to schools, we loan to home educators too! Join us at Corby Library on Friday 1:30 to 3:30 at their home ed drop-in event. There'll also be craft activities, lego and refreshments. Corby Library

Happy ! This week is a great opportunity to introduce children to Shakespeare and his works. Check out the official website for downloadable resources. LRE also have many child-friendly versions of his works, as well as full playscripts and even a 'Tudor Times' artefact collection to borrow!

For Home Educators Join over 1,000 home educators registered to take part in Shakespeare Week

What fantastic shortlists! Congratulations to all the illustrators and authors. It’s time to get on with some reading for the shadowing of the awards!!

Want to know more about Learning Resources for Education? Never managed to visit the showroom and want to know what it looks like? Want to see some fabulous acting skills when pretending to answer the phone? Then take a look at our promotional video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp3tlBzwDQg

Welcome to Learning Resources for Education Learning Resouorces for Education (LRE) is the school library service for Northamptonshire. They supply home educators, early years settings and schools with...

We know that schools are bombarded with information about World Book Day events, so here is a short thread to some of the best online events happening across the whole week 🧵🌍📚🌤️
World Book Day (UK & Ireland) SLS UK

Do you know any children who would like to be involved in voting for the Children's Book Award? Northamptonshire Children's Book Group are looking for families, school classes or reading groups to read and vote. Contact Northamptonshire Children's Book Group to get involved!

In the run up to our Top 10 announcement on Monday, we thought we would share some fun facts about the Children's Book Award with you! Remember, the CBA is voted for entirely by children, start to finish! Huge thanks to our local testing groups who facilitate this monumental logistical task!

Happy half term! We will be here Tuesday to Thursday next week for any last minute Spring 2 requests. In the mean time, libraries across Northamptonshire have lots of children's activities going on to keep them occupied, so take a look to see what your local library has in store this half term... https://tockify.com/nccevents/agenda?tags=Libraries

What a fantastic idea! 😍

Are you loved up today? Whether you are or not, here's a selection of modern YA romances on our shelves. Have you read any? What romances, old or new, would you recommend?

Happy Lunar New Year! Here are some of the items that we have in our 'China' artefact collection, plus lots of lovely books all about Lunar New Year and the story behind the zodiac signs. All available for schools to borrow

It was so lovely to welcome Eastfield Academy students and teachers to LRE yesterday to select books for their classrooms. Just look at all the lovely books they chose! Happy reading! SLS UK Great School Libraries

We are marking by highlighting some favourite books that are ideal for talking about internet safety and the perks and perils of social media with children and young people. Check out these titles from

For we are promoting the collections. With books suitable for different ages, they are a mix of fiction and non fiction the help and empower young readers through difficult times. Schools in Northants can borrow sets from us here at LRE. The Reading Agency Place2Be Healthy Schools North Northants

Have you received our latest newsletter? Be sure to add us to your safe senders list so we don't go to spam. This term we feature some WBD online events, our range of space resources and lots more.

A great morning explaining the benefits of using LRE to school governors across West Northamptonshire Council North Northamptonshire Council My favourite slide was showing £100 worth of books from the big online jungle shop vs from us!

We are already picking and packing your requests for spring 2! It feels like such a short term. Want some books, story sacks or artefacts for next term? Get in touch. We are delivering week beginning 12 Feb

Our Vikings artefacts collection has inspired us to jump on the latest trend... this is what we would look like as a Viking!
https://www.westnorthants.gov.uk/schools-library-service/resources-borrow

Happy New Year! If you would like to start the year with a revamp of your school library provision then get in touch and see how we can help!
https://www.westnorthants.gov.uk/schools-library-service

We hope Father Christmas brought you lots of lovely books. We'd love to hear what has been added to your too be read pile.

Merry Christmas from everyone here at LRE. We thought we'd share this lovely video from our public libraries on this night before Christmas.

A LibraryPlus Christmas LibraryPlus wishes everyone a merry Christmas! Transcription:Northamptonshire Libraries present "A LibraryPlus Ch...

Don't forget the children can take part in the The Reading Agency's Winter Mini Challenge. They simply create a profile on the website and log their reading:

Summer Reading Challenge 1. Sign up Click 'Join now' to create your account 2. Read books Set your reading goal and read anything you like! Each time you finish a book, add it to your profile and leave a review 3. Earn digital rewards Unlock rewards for your reading including a new online badge and a certificate when you re...

We will be joining Corby Library on Monday morning to showcase the resources home educators can borrow from us. There's lots to see on the day with some lovely activities too, so do drop in if you can!

*Cancelled*
The secondary network meeting on 21st November 2023 is cancelled.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

It's November! Can you believe it? This month's events and activities include Non Fiction November and World Kindness Day