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Web App of the Week - Sarah Bonnell School - UK

Web App of the Week is an award for outstanding users of Accessit Library. It’s a place to recognise nice-looking, useful user interfaces and is somewhere to turn to for inspiration.

This week we are focusing in on Sarah Bonnell School’s World Book Day themed Web App. For those readers that don’t know about World Book Day, here is some information about it, taken from their website:

“World Book Day changes lives through a love of books and shared reading. Our mission is to promote reading for pleasure, offering every child and young person the opportunity to have a book of their own. Reading for pleasure is the single biggest indicator of a child’s future success – more than their family circumstances, their parents’ educational background or their income. We want to see more children, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, with a life-long habit of reading for pleasure and the improved life chances this brings them.”

– From worldbookday.com

Sarah Bonnell School’s World Book Day themed Web App is comprehensive and engaging. It has reading challenges, multiple twitter feeds, promotional banners, and features book recommendations from their librarians.

Like all schools in the United Kingdom, Sarah Bonnell has adapted their library to assist home learning. They’ve subscribed to 3rd party content suppliers such as Wheelers eBooks and set up a new click and delivery service. When asked how Accessit Library helped them with this, Poonampal said:

“The latest reservation and quarantine mode update worked well and has definitely helped set up my click and deliver service. Also integrating Wheelers into the Accessit program has helped to channel all borrowing in one area. Using the landing page as a point of getting notifications out to students has been useful.”

Sarah Bonnell School also uses Accessit Library to support lessons through Google Classrooms.

“I have Google Classrooms set up as learning hub support rooms where the students contact me with any queries of issues they may have about the learning hub.”

Accessit Library is truly a whole school resource that enhances digital classrooms, allows parents to make book choices with their children and provides multitudes of reporting options to demonstrate reading progress to the SLT and OFSTED.

For more inspiration, have a look at other Web Apps from the United Kingdom that have been featured in Web App of the Week:
Great Baddow High School
Durrington High School
Bishop’s Hatfield Girls’ School
Broadland High Ormiston Academy

If you would like to submit your Web App for ‘Web App of the Week’, fill out the form below with your details and we’ll be in touch.