{"id":24630,"date":"2025-10-14T15:34:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/?p=24630"},"modified":"2025-10-14T15:35:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T15:35:49","slug":"crawley-primary-school-shows-off-refurbished-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefamilygrapevine.co.uk\/west-sussex\/crawley-primary-school-shows-off-refurbished-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Crawley Primary School shows off refurbished library"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"24630\" class=\"elementor elementor-24630\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-fb8e12c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"fb8e12c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-176cbd9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"176cbd9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"margin: 12pt 0cm;\" align=\"center\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">Over \u00a32000 of books donated to Southgate Primary School<\/span><\/b><\/h4><p style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 12.0pt 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">A Crawley primary school has shared photos of its newly refurbished library after over \u00a32000 of books were donated thanks to the generosity of parents, families and local businesses.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 12.0pt 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">The school, Southgate Primary School, has spent \u00a314K on refurbishing its library. It reached out to the parents of pupils and local businesses in the community with an appeal for support in getting new books to fill up the new library.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 12.0pt 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">Southgate Primary School has received around 250 books, with parents and the community donating through the school\u2019s Amazon wish list. This has provided the Ofsted \u2018Good\u2019 rated school with hundreds of brand new books.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 12.0pt 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">Victoria Hatton, interim co-headteacher at the school, commented:<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 12.0pt 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u201cIt\u2019s been very inspiring to see all the community support which has made our newly refurbished library a possibility.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 12.0pt 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u201cWith hundreds of brand new books we have updated and enhanced our book collection to inspire a lifelong love of reading in our pupils.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 12.0pt 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">\u201cThe response so far from our pupils has been great, with our new library helping to foster a vibrant reading culture throughout the school.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify; margin: 12.0pt 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">It was officially opened last week by The Mayor of Crawley, Councillor Sharmila Sivarajah, along with Councillors Michael Jones, Bob Noyce and Yasmin Khan. Local parent authors Katie Kett and Susie Reading also visited the library and read from their recently published book \u2018Little Owl\u2019s Woodland Adventure\u2019 to pupils.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over \u00a32000 of books donated to Southgate Primary School A Crawley primary school has shared photos of its newly refurbished library after over \u00a32000 of books were donated thanks to the generosity of parents, families and local businesses. The school, Southgate Primary School, has spent \u00a314K on refurbishing its library. 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