British Library Learning Programme

Resource type: Projects, programmes and workshops

Price band: Free

Key stage: KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5

Region(s): England - Greater London and England - North East

The British Library Learning Programme offers a range of hands-on workshops, curated exhibitions and interactive tours to support primary and secondary educators at its two sites in London and Leeds.

Workshops and events include:

Research Matters: developing independent research skills for primary and secondary pupils.
Write Here: creative writing workshops inspired by some of the exhibits in the Treasures Gallery.
Once Upon a Time – Tell/Make a Story: developing literacy and language skills through storytelling and imaginative play.
Exploring Black British Literature.
Sounds familiar: exploring speech, accent and dialect through the oral history collections from the National Sound Archive.
Windrush Voices: exploring the wider social and historical context of the arrival of the Empire Windrush in 1948.
Teacher CPD sessions.
Author events to support temporary exhibitions and/or key events in the literacy calendar.

Cost: Free but booking essential.

About the British Library: The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. Its collection holds over 170 million artefacts from every age of written civilisation, with around three million new printed and digital publications added to the archive every year.

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The British Library’s learning programme is designed to enrich the curriculum and help young people develop skills in visual literacy, critical thinking, source-based learning and research.
In-person workshops and tours give pupils access to a unique and inspiring learning environment.
Many of the in-person author events are also live-streamed.
Find a range of themed creative writing activities and supporting resources for primary-aged children on the British Library’s Discovering Children’s Books padlet.
Top children’s authors, illustrators and poets introduce a range of writing and book-related activities for primary aged children on the Discovering Children’s Books YouTube playlist.