Joydens Wood Junior School

Our Library at Joydens Wood Junior School

Click here to see our Kent Literacy awards certificate

Joydens Wood Junior Library

We are very proud of our award-winning library here at Joydens Wood Junior School. It is run by our dedicated team of  librarians who religiously turn up every lunch hour to provide a much-valued book-borrowing service to pupils (and staff) in the school. The librarians are trained to stamp, issue, return, label, colour-code, and even dewey books. They also follow up any overdue books and are able to reserve or request books that children need or want. No adults needed!  

Our Librarians

Without our librarians, we would be well and truly stuck. They tidy, sort, stack, organise, titivate and even do their own displays! If you’re stuck for ideas about what to read next, come and consult with one of our librarians. There is something for everyone and if we don’t have what you want, put your request into our suggestions box. We’re keen to hear from you!

What can we tempt you with?

Although small, our library is FULL of up-to-date, enticing books. For those of you who don’t want to read a book, we also subscribe to ‘First News’ – a newspaper written especially for children. Check out our new Newspaper rack so you can peruse our collection!

Award-Winning

In 2019 Best School Library category in Dartford Gravesham for the Kent Literacy Awards. Our pupil librarians had been nominated for their outstanding work in encouraging reading for pleasure along with organising and helping to run all the wonderful reading events throughout the year, such as our ‘Spooky Stories’ event and ‘Bring and Buy Book Sale’! We had previously won the 2015 ‘Best School Library in Kent’ for all the amazing fund-raising to help build and create our small (but buzzing) library.

Library Newspaper

We’re always trying to find new ways to engage readers across the school and one way of getting everyone talking about books is through our seasonal library newspaper! Current events, latest gossip, exciting new books, debates and topics – nothing escapes our notice. We like to keep our school fully updated and ‘in the know’, especially with latest fiction, non-fiction and trendy authors. There is even a fantastic puzzle page for those of us who want to relax back and test those brain cells. Look out for latest publications!

 Top Readers

We’re looking for Top Readers in our school! Do you think you can make it onto the the library board of top readers? You had better get borrowing!