Early Years Local Area Coordinators
This section is for all Early Years Local Area Coordinators, who manage the Bookbug programme in their area.
These pages will be updated on a regular basis with information for coordinators, including logistics and delivery updates, upcoming event details, training information and online resources.
Last updated - 14/05/2012
Do you want to bring Gaelic Bookbug Sessions to your local authority?
From - 07/05/2012
Details of your Bookbug Week Events
From - 30/04/2012
Tracy's Blog: Parenting Across Scotland Essays
Details of your Bookbug Week Events
From - 23/04/2012
Details of your Bookbug Week Events
Statistics for Creative Scotland - arts activity in areas affected by crime
Bookbug Pack Annual Stock Reminder
14/05/2012
Do you want to bring Gaelic Bookbug Sessions to your local authority?
In November last year we asked you to let us know if Gaelic Bookbug Sessions took place in your local authority. We were delighted to find out that currently there are Gaelic Bookbug Sessions running in:
Argyll and Bute
Highland (via Bord na Gaidhlig)
North Ayrshire
If you know of a Gaelic Bookbug Session activity happening in your area and you are not on the list, please contact us with the following information: where Gaelic Bookbug Sessions take place; how many sessions; and how many people attend.
Would you be interested in starting Gaelic Bookbug Sessions with support from Bord na Gaidhlig from 2013/14? If so please let us know how often and how many sessions you would be interested in running.
Please send your information or note of interest in Gaelic Bookbug Sessions to catriona.wallace@scottishbooktrust.com by Tuesday 22nd May.
Play Talk Read Update
The Play Talk Read bus is back on the road, touring around Scotland, and Bookbug Specialists will again be running Bookbug Sessions on board the bus.
The scheduling of the tour is being coordinated by Hannah Mitchell, and she is very keen to involve local Bookbug Coordinators and local Bookbug Session Leaders in the campaign when the bus visits your area. Hannah is your first point of contact for all queries relating to Play Talk Read, and she has provided the attached document outlining the plans for the 2012/13 PTR campaign, and how you can get involved.
Bookbug Co-ordinator Calendar
An updated calendar went into your Partnership Agreements but we thought it might be useful to have it separately. It has been added to the guidance and support page of our website. It's also attached at the bottom of this page.
My Favourite Place
Scottish Book Trust and BBC Scotland are collecting stories about your favourite places in Scotland. There are many ways to get involved in the project, including submitting your own story, reading other people’s stories and entering competitions for schools. Find out more about My Favourite Place here. Please pass on this information to those who may be interested.
07/05/2012
Bookbug Week
We have commissioned a very special song for Bookbug Week called The Torch Is On Its Way. You can find recordings of this song on our website, as well as lyrics and actions to help families join in. Please include this song in your special Bookbug Sessions and events throughout Bookbug Week. The song is also included on the rhyme mats so you can hand these out to families at your sessions and get them to join in.
You will also find a number book, song and rhyme suggestions that you may wish to include in your Olympic themed Bookbug Session. Colouring in pages and a template for a medal are also on-line. Please click here for the web link for Bookbug Week: http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/babies-early-years/professionals/bookbugweek
The parents pages for Bookbug Week can also be found here: http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/babies-early-years/parents/bookbugweek
Details of your Bookbug Week Events
You should have received your marketing materials for Bookbug Week at the start of May. Please start promoting your events and Bookbug Sessions as soon as they have been confirmed.
We would also like to include details of your event on our website. This year we have created a map of events that will be taking place over Scotland and you can view this by going to the following web link and clicking on the map: http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/babies-early-years/professionals/bookbugweek
A big thank you to everyone who has already submitted details about their events. It looks like some amazing events will be happening again this year and we are looking forward to hearing what you have planned!
If you’ve still to submit your event details, please can you provide the following information:
- Date
- Time and duration of event
- Location
- Ticketed/open to all
- Key contact name
- Key contact telephone number
- Key contact email address
- Brief summary of event
Please email kate.caldwell@scottishbooktrust.com with these details and we will include these on the website shortly. Thank you.
Bookbug Session Statistics
A big thank you to everyone for submitting Bookbug Session Statistics. You’ll be pleased to hear that the numbers have noticeably increased from last year. The number of sessions has grown by 13% and the audience numbers by 19.5% which is absolutely amazing! Thank you all so much for your hard work
Bookbug Marketing Materials
You will have recently received an email detailing the delivery of free marketing materials for 2012-13. Please make sure you take some time to read this email carefully. If you need this passed on to you again, please do not hesitate to get in touch with Kate on Kate.caldwell@scottishbooktrust.com Marketing materials will arrive with your June deliveries.
Partnership Agreements
Thank you to those of you who have returned your signed Partnership Agreements to us. This is just a gentle reminder to those who haven’t that the deadline of 30th April has now passed so please send these to us as soon as possible. If you have any problems or haven’t yet received the Partnership Agreement please contact kirsty.sinclair@scottishbooktrust.com.
Thank you.
Local Press
We just wanted to say thank you to all of you for running such wonderful Bookbug events and for getting local press involved. We receive lots of press cuttings so keep them coming! Feel free to send us photos of your events so we can see what fun you’ve had.
30/04/2012
Book of the Month for May
We have 5 copies of Goat Goes to Playgroup, the wonderful new book by Julia Donaldson (and illustrated by Nick Sharratt), to give away in our new Book of the Month competition:
Please do pass this on to anyone who may be interested.
Tracy’s Blog: Parenting Across Scotland Essays
This week Tracy blogs about some fascinating essays from Parenting Across Scotland. Read Tracy’s thoughts here:
Staff Photos
So that you can put a face to the name, there are now staff photos of (almost) all of the Scottish Book Trust employees on our website. To see them click here. What a good-looking, lovely, smiley group of people, I’m sure you’ll all agree!
Partnership Agreements
Thank you to those of you who have returned your signed Partnership Agreements to us. This is just a gentle reminder to those who haven’t that the deadline of 30th April has now passed so please send these to us as soon as possible.
If you have any problems or haven’t yet received the Partnership Agreement please contact kirsty.sinclair@scottishbooktrust.com. Thank you.
Details of your Bookbug Week Events
Just a reminder for you to let us know about all the fabulous Bookbug Week Events you have planned so that we can help you promote your events to families in a special Bookbug Week section on our website.
On our website we will be featuring a map of events that will be taking place during Bookbug Week, so please submit the following information about your events once they have been confirmed:
• Date
• Time and duration of event
• Location
• Ticketed/open to all
• Key contact name
• Key contact telephone number
• Key contact email address
• Brief summary of event
It looks like some amazing events will be happening again this year but the more the merrier! Please email kate.caldwell@scottishbooktrust.com with these details. Thank you.
23/04/2012
Bookbug Marketing Materials
You will have recently received an email detailing the delivery of free marketing materials for 2012-13. Please make sure you take some time to read this email carefully. If you need this passed on to you again, please do not hesitate to get in touch.
Marketing materials will arrive with your June deliveries, please double check that the delivery address for you correct. If you have a change that needs to be made, please ensure you contact Kate.caldwell@scottishbooktrust.com by Friday 4th May at the very latest.
Details of your Bookbug Week Events
The number of special events and Bookbug Sessions held last year was phenomenal, and we would like to help you promote your events to families by including a special Bookbug Week section on our website.
On our website we will be featuring a map of events that will be taking place during Bookbug Week, so please submit the following information about your events once they have been confirmed.
• Date
• Time and duration of event
• Location
• Ticketed/open to all
• Key contact name
• Key contact telephone number
• Key contact email address
• Brief summary of event
It looks like some amazing events will be happening again this year but the more the merrier! Please email kate.caldwell@scottishbooktrust.com with these details. Thank you.
Statistics for Creative Scotland – arts activity in areas affected by crime
Creative Scotland have asked us to collect some additional statistics this year regarding arts activity in areas affected by crime. We need to contribute to this collection of data with information about Bookbug Sessions which run in areas of deprivation.
We apologise for the short notice but we have just been asked for this information and will need these figures by the end of next week.
What we need to know is if any of your Bookbug Sessions are run in areas of multiple deprivation. We are happy for you as local coordinator to make a judgement as to which libraries are based within such areas.
The statistics we need for the period 1 April 2011 – 31 March 2012 are:
• Total number of Bookbug Sessions held in areas of deprivation within your Local Authority
• Total number of children and adults attending these sessions
Hopefully you will have this information to hand as it was required for our annual Bookbug Session statistics and it will just be a case of pulling out the figures from specific libraries.
Please email catriona.wallace@scottishbooktrust.com with this information before this Friday 27th April 2012. It would be helpful if you could call this email ‘Statistics for Creative Scotland’ to avoid confusion with our annual Bookbug Session stats.
Bookbug Pack Annual Stock Reminder
Thank you to those of you who have already submitted their full stocktake figures. Just a reminder that we will need your figures by Monday 30 April 2012, but you can carry out your stocktake any time from now until the end of April.
We ask that you:
• Carry out a count of Bookbug packs held at your central store in April 2012
• Carry out a count of Bookbug packs held at all gifting locations in your area during April 2012
• Complete the stocktake form (instructions provided on the form)
• Return your form to bookbug@scottishbooktrust.com by Monday 30 April 2012. If you have any questions about the stocktake, please contact catriona.wallace@scottishbooktrust.com as soon as possible. Thanks very much in advance for your work on the stocktake, which is essential for our reporting purposes.
New Steering Group
Thank you to all of the members of last year’s Steering Group. We really appreciated your hard work and feedback.
We are delighted to announce that the members of the new Steering Group are as follows:
Gill Swales – Scottish Borders
Susan McKay – Aberdeenshire
Elissa Wilson – East Renfrewshire
Kirsteen Watson – Midlothian
Aly McCulloch – West Dunbartonshire
Sylvia Main – Angus
Janette White – Glasgow
The Steering Group ensures that we’re getting regular feedbackabout how the programme is delivered locally, and to make sure it is meeting the needs of families in your areas. The first meeting of our new Steering Group will take place on 20th June. Please do get in touch if there’s anything you would like to add to the agenda. Please also let us know if you’re interested in becoming a future member of the group.
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| Local_authority_-_Bookbug_Pack_Stocktake_2012.xls | 49.5 KB |
| Play_Talk_Read_Update_2012.doc | 25 KB |
| Bookbug_Co-ordinator_Calendar_2012.pdf | 282.8 KB |
