Today I visited Egglescliffe School near Stockton, in order to interview staff and students for my project. I was made very welcome and in the foodie spirit of this blog, have to report on the excellent quality of the school dinner today! Egglescliffe is an 11-18 secondary school, noted as outstanding by Ofsted, so I wasn’t surprised to find both staff and students had plenty to say about their views of information literacy. This school is also one of the few in this area which still has a teacher librarian in post – this makes an interesting comparison with Queensland, where I found many such posts and even a specific course for teachers wishing to add an extra librarianship qualification to their cv.

Wendy and Fariha in Egglescliffe School Library (with permission)