A Fulwood high school library has celebrated after winning £1,000 in National Book Tokens and a year’s membership to the School Library Association.

Archbishop Temple Church of England High School is one of five UK schools to win the prize following a competition launched by National Book Tokens in association with the charity Read for Good earlier this year. It helps winning schools rebuild their book collections and encourages reading for pleasure.

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National Book Tokens gift cards are accepted in hundreds of bookshops across the UK, Ireland and online, including personalised and e-gift cards and Bookily.

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Mrs Baybutt, the lead practitioner in literacy and vocabulary, said: “We are absolutely delighted that we can enrich what we offer to our pupils in our school library by winning these tokens. We look forward to including more diversity in our fiction section and helping all departments to complement the offer in fiction and non-fiction.

“We will also offer some of the tokens as prizes as an incentive for our new library reading scheme called ‘Bookopoly’ – watch this space!”

National Book Tokens have inspired book lovers for over 90 years, empowering readers to choose ‘just the right books for them’. Read for Good encourages children to love reading, with the charity working in schools and hospitals across the UK to make reading accessible and fun.

For more information, visit – www.nationalbooktokens.com

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