Beaumont Primary School celebrate the opening of new library

Beaumont Primary School celebrated the start of a new chapter as the ribbon to the new modern library was cut to officially mark its opening.

The new library has been years in the making and the the whole school say they are blown away with the finished result

"Children are at the heart of everything we do at Beaumont and so is reading. We are a reading school and we wanted our whole school library to be in the heart (centre) of our school," said Anna Dixon, Year Six class teacher and English lead.

Beaumont School Library

She added "After gathering the children's thoughts and ideas, we set to work creating our dream library.

"This involved raising money and carrying out numerous parent school assocation events including a sponsored 'spellathon' and a sponsored 'readathon'.

"The money we raised was put straight into our new library fund. It really has been a huge team effort and we cannot thank the Beaumont family enough."

The library was designed to be an 'open the calm, comfortable and colourful reading space'.

Among the guests to celebrate the library opening was Ruby, the reading dog, a regular visitor to the school.

Cllr Anne Galloway, executive member for children's services at Bolton Council alongside governors and a parent who played such a pivotal role in ensuring the school had enough money to create the library it wanted.

Children said they loved the new library, with Year Six pupils being trained to become librarians.

Mrs Dixon said: "With the help of our Year 6 trained librarians, children are able to come and visit, loan a book and return it when they have finished. I cannot wait to hear all about the stories the children have read."

Year Five pupil Zakariya Patel said: "If you can read you can do anything!" and Fellow  Year Five pupil Naomi Bradbrook said: "The books in the library are like trees in a forest. Every tree has a story and every book has a story!"