Alison Lilburn June 2013 Rotherham's Imagination Library, UK

Alison Lilburn

June 2013

Rotherham's Imagination Library, UK

Rotherham's Imagination Library

How it all began……….

December 2007, Rotherham

Project Management1 x F-T Project Manager1 x P-T Admin Officer



Rotherham


Rotherham Wards


The need to develop communication, language and literacy skills in Rotherham

Educational attainment 2005 - 2007

Early Years Foundation Stage Profiles – age five

The ‘National’ columns reflect the % achieving the expected levels in CLL

The ‘R’ham’ columns reflect the % of Rotherham children achieving the expected level in CLL

2005 2006 2007

COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE AND

LITERACY (CLL)

National R’ham National R’ham National R’ham

Language for communication and

thinking

81 68 78 69 81 65

Linking sounds and letters

63 51 61 55 63 53

Reading 72 58 68 60 72 59

Writing 61 47 57 50 61 48.6


Financing Rotherham’s

Imagination Library


Registrations Number of Active Registrations / % of under-fives:

Total Registrations since launch:

13,944 (87%)

23,416Year 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

Number of registrations

5,968

9,349

12,377

13,540

13,802

13,944*(April 2013)


• 0 - 7 Strategic Partnership• 0 - 7 Multi-Agency Transition Officer• 2010 (Housing)• Adult Education – English as Additional

Language programmes)• Adoption Team• Advertiser (local press)• Bookstart• Local Chamber of Commerce)• Chief Executive Strategic Partnership• Childminder Co-ordinator

• Children’s Centres x 22• Children’s Development Centre• Chinese Community• Clifton EAZ (Education Action Zone)• Community Cohesion Officer• Culture and Leisure Services• CYPS Strategic Partnership• Dearne Valley College• Dinnington Cluster• Early Years Strategic Team• Early Years settings – PVI• Eastern European Stores – Wellgate• Eastwood Community Centre• Eastwood Mission Church• Every Child a Talker (ECAT) participants • Education Psychologists• Extended Services

• Families Information Service• Family Learning Team• Family Support Workers• Families for Change • Ferham Children’s Centre• Ferham Gala• FORE (Families of Rotherham East)• Foundation Stage Units – Lead Teachers• Get Real Team• GROW (Giving Real Opportunities to Women)

• Health - Clinical Teams/Health Visitors (National Health Service)

• Homestart (supporting parents with issues)• Job Centre Plus – Single Parent Advisers• Special Education Needs Co-ordinator Early

Years• LAC (Looked After Children/Foster Carers)• Learning Partnership• Library Service – Children’s Champion• Literacy Consultants• Mosque Liaison Group• Multi-Cultural Centre• Outreach Workers• Parenting Team• Phoenix Business Centre• Portage

• Primary Schools• Rotherham College or Arts and Technology

• Registrars• Rotherham Ethnic Minorities Alliance• Rotherham’s Leisure Centre• Rotherham Ready (Enterprise in Schools)• Rotherham Rugby Club• Rotherham Strategic Partnership• Rotherham United• Rother Valley Country Park• Rowan Centre (Teenage Mums)• Scrutiny Panel• Sheffield Diocese• Sheffield Sharks (Basketball)• Sheffield Steelers (Ice Hockey)• Special Care Baby Unit• Speech and Language therapists• Locality Team Managers (Social Services)• Thomas Rotherham College• Unity Centre (New Arrivals)• VAR (Voluntary Action Rotherham)• Visually and Hearing Impaired teams• Welcome Centre• Women’s Refuge• Yemeni Society

RECRUITMENT PARTNERS


How we measure Imagination Library take-up

across Rotherham

• Rotherham is divided into

21 Wards, 16 Learning

Communities and 116

Super Output Areas (SOA).

• We cross reference the

number of under-fives

(NHS data) living in each

SOA with the number of

Imagination Library

registrations and

convert to percentages.

• We record the figures in

the appropriate column –

according to levels of

disadvantage.


• Compare take-up in each Super Output Area with borough-wide norm (88%).

• Highlight those areas lower than the norm (less than 88%) and prioritise any that fall within the 30% most disadvantaged areas.

Prioritising and targeting recruitment


Enhancing

the

Imagination Library Books


Working with the Library Service

Working with Childminders

Working with Childcare students

Family Learning

Family Learning

Rotherham Book Awards

Rotherham Book Awards

Schools – Foundation Stage (3 – 5 yrs)

Measuring Impact

• Early Years Foundation Stage Profiles

• E-mags

• Report – ‘Hundred different ways of sharing books’


Early Years Foundation Stage Profiles


The Foundation Stage Profile records each child’s progress and learning needs at the end of the Foundation Stage. Profiles must be completed in any government-funded setting in which children complete the Foundation Stage. For most children, this is at the end of the reception year in primary school.

The Foundation Stage Profile is based on early childhood practitioners’ observations and assessments in six areas of learning: Personal, Social and Emotional (PSE) development; Communication, Language and Literacy (CLL); Mathematical Development; Knowledge and Understanding of the World; Physical Development and Creative Development.

Attainment achievements – comparing ‘Imagination Library’ children with ‘non-Imagination Library’ children

Key: PSE= Personal, Social and Emotional Development - Areas of Learning KUW = Knowledge and Understanding of the WorldCLL= Communication, Language and Literacy – Areas of Learning Phy = Physical DevelopmentMaths= Mathematics Cre = Creative Development


The ‘hundred languages of book sharing’

The Imagination Library study - May 2010

Kate Pahl, Margaret Lewis and Louise RitchieSheffield University – commissioned by Inspire Rotherham (literacy project)


Summary Findings:

• Book sharing in homes comprises a diverse set of practices

• Book sharing is not the same as school literacy

• A strategic approach to the Imagination Library is essential


Book-Sharing with the Imagination Library – DVD

featuring Rotherham parents & carers


Any Questions?

e-mail: [email protected]


Documents

Alison Lilburn June 2013 Rotherham's Imagination Library, UK