Librarian Adam Lancaster has made a huge impact on reading at his Hertfordshire school.
He runs Enjoying Reading classes for all year 7s at Monk’s Walk School in Welwyn Garden City, helps parents to encourage children to read at home, and offers free CPD to local primary and secondary schools.
Initiatives like these have now led to Mr Lancaster scooping the title of School Librarian of the Year 2012.
Mr Lancaster received his award from children’s writer and School Library Association president Kevin Crossley-Holland at a special ceremony in London last week.
“School libraries and school librarians are under real pressure – political apathy, cuts in their budgets, threats of redundancy, status within their schools,” said Mr Crossley-Holland.
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