Kristabelle Williams of Addey and Stanhope School, a voluntary aided state secondary in inner south east London, has been awarded the honour by the School Library Association (SLA).
Ms Williams is manager of the school’s Learning Resource Centre and impressed the judges with her “unremitting and consistent focus on ensuring the best futures for her students, making reading, researching and library use the norm”.
The award is for 2020 and 2021 after judging last year was delayed by the pandemic. Nominations are now open for the 2022 awards.
Addey & Stanhope is a 300-year-old co-educational school for years 7 to 11 in Lewisham. Among the many strategies Ms Williams employs are a Manga Club, book “tasting menus” and Books Up – a mash-up of the games Taboo and Heads Up. She is the only member of staff in the LRC but judges praised her for creating a “thriving reading culture”.
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