Advice
Teachers and home educators
Special library cards and resources for teachers and home educators.
If you’re a teacher or educating children at home, you can get a special library card with increased lending allowances and periods.
Online teaching
- Support for teachers at schools using Oxford Owl
- Online Teaching Part 1: Getting Started
- Online Teaching Part 2: Practical Tips for English Language Lessons
- Online Teaching Part 3: Tips to Engage and Motivate Students
- Top tips to support remote learning
- Homeschooling during the pandemic: a guide to parent self-care
Homework help
- Britannica for children, Britannica for students and Britannica for adults - age-appropriate encyclopaedia available anyone with a Suffolk Libraries card
- Q-files - illustrated encyclopaedia for children
- Fact-checking tips from Suffolk Libraries (PDF) - free poster you can download and print.
Find the right book at the right time
- New titles and recommendations for children and new titles and recommendations for young adults - handpicked new and themed titles from our children's librarian. Includes lists for Empathy Day, Black History Month, Refugee Week and Pride, as well as award longlists and shortlists
- Booktrust Bookfinder - perfect titles for all ages and interests
- Books for Topics - recommended books for curriculum topics as well as Reading for Pleasure lists
- Love Reading 4 Kids - find titles by age, genre and subject
- Fantastic fiction - listings by author of sequels and series.
Staying safe online
- Childnet - great advice, tips and resources for parents and carers, teachers and young people
- NSPCC - online safety - advice and guidance about what to do if there are concerns about your children’s welfare and internet safety as well as 'Share Aware' guidance
- Childline on social media - support for young people up to the age of 19 on a range of any number of issues or concerns including internet safety
- UK Safer Internet Centre - tips, advice and resources on the safe and responsible use of technology for