Having bitten the bullet and decided that I should join CILIP and do Chartership, what I've actually done is pay my membership fee and look at the PKSB. Which is rather daunting, to be patently honest. Jo Harcus has found a way of cutting through the bureaucratic language here, which I am minded to try when I get round to registering for Chartership (another £50 to CILIP - ka-ching!) but that's all going to have to wait until the summer holidays as I now have to get to grips with teen fiction, weeding/updating American history, working 32 hours a week and having a kind of social life.
As we Brits say, "mustn't grumble", and to be perfectly honest, I do love my job, and the fact that there is so much to do and learn here.
I was at a Youth Libraries Group conference last week (more on that here) where we discussed emerging readers and how to get children to read, and I felt immensely lucky to work in a school where we don't have budget restrictions, and our pupils have scheduled reading lessons, and our teaching and support staff all love to read, and you can have a proper conversation about books without people thinking you're a nerd.
So although at the moment I know that Chartership must be done, I'm enjoying things as they are, and when I get home, I'm going to settle down with a nice book and just enjoy a good read.
As we Brits say, "mustn't grumble", and to be perfectly honest, I do love my job, and the fact that there is so much to do and learn here.
I was at a Youth Libraries Group conference last week (more on that here) where we discussed emerging readers and how to get children to read, and I felt immensely lucky to work in a school where we don't have budget restrictions, and our pupils have scheduled reading lessons, and our teaching and support staff all love to read, and you can have a proper conversation about books without people thinking you're a nerd.
So although at the moment I know that Chartership must be done, I'm enjoying things as they are, and when I get home, I'm going to settle down with a nice book and just enjoy a good read.
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