SPL Education works in partnership with a wide range of organisations, and works with a variety of other cultural and arts organisations. We regularly run workshops in collaboration with the Scottish Parliament, the National War Museum, the National Trust for Scotland and Holyrood Palace.

And we have worked on specific projects with many others, including Oxfam, The People's Palace, Edinburgh World Heritage, the Nevis Partnership, and the Royal Commission for Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland.

We work with local authorities across Scotland to provide workshops to schools, take part in events, and offer CPD opportunities to teachers.

And we work with the other literacy organisations in Scotland through the Literature in Learning Partnership, with educational institutions such as Learning & Teaching Scotland and with other poetry organisations throughout the UK, including the Children's Poetry Bookshelf.

We are always open to new partnership opportunities to add value and stimulus to our programmes.

If you would be interested in exploring ideas for partnership with us, please contact us.

Children's Poetry Bookshelf

The Children's Poetry Bookshelf, run by the Poetry Book Society, is a book club for children aged 7-11 designed to make the best children's poetry available to young readers in an exciting and enjoyable way.

Providing three different packages (for schools, libraries, and for individuals) the CPB sends titles recommended by an expert panel out to its members three times a year - a very useful way to receive poetry books of a high quality if you are unsure of which books to purchase.

The Scottish Poetry Library work in partnership with the Poetry Book Society, with the support of Scottish Arts Council Lottery funding, to spread news of the CPB to Scottish schools, libraries, parents and grandparents – anyone with an interest in providing children with high quality children's poetry resources.

The CPB has a website dedicated entirely to children's poetry books with a lively, fun-filled section for children, and offers suggestions for adults on the best poetry to buy for children. It also provides support for teachers and libraries, including teachers' activity sheets and posters, to encourage children to read and enjoy poetry.

Find out more at www.childrenspoetrybookshelf.co.uk

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Learning & Teaching Scotland

We are always pleased to work with Learning and Teaching Scotland. You will find details of their Home/Hame poetry competition for schools in our competitions section.

And we look forward to being able to promote their Edwin Morgan resource with the opening of the Edwin Morgan Archive at the SPL.

In the past they have distributed our anthology The Thing that Mattered Most: Scottish poems for children free to every school in Scotland, with the support of the Scottish Executive.