About our events
Plan your next school trip, join us online wherever you are, or learn without leaving your classroom.
Join us in London, Leeds or online for workshops, interactive sessions, self-guided visits, and teacher CPDs to inspire you and your students.
What's on
Secret Maps Workshop
Students will develop information literacy and critical thinking skills by exploring our maps collection.
Sensory Storytelling: Secret Maps
X marks the spot in this fun-filled sensory adventure around our latest exhibition!
Self-Guided Visit: Story Explorers
A self-guided opportunity for schools to discover our riotous new hands-on exhibition taking a fresh look at the Library’s collection.
Teacher CPD: The Tempest in context
Join Professor Emma Smith and teacher Michael Donkor for fresh perspectives, tips and resources exploring magic in The Tempest for teachers of Key Stage 4 – 5.
Global Food Stories with Michael Rosen
Join Michael Rosen to explore delicious tales from around the world, featuring mysterious treats, tempting wonders and magical morsels!
Study Day: International Women's Day
A Level students will explore the history of women’s rights through our collection.
Self-Guided Visit: Fairy Tales
A self-guided opportunity for schools to discover our upcoming exhibition all about fairy tales.
Exploring Black British Literature – Live! with Malorie Blackman
Save the date to join the literary icon and explore influential Black British writers.
Story Explorers Leeds: Class Visit
Students will develop literacy, oracy and social skills in free class visits to this playful exhibition.
Refugee Week: No Place Like Home
Save the date! The Sanctuary Foundation’s No Place Like Home competition prize-giving ceremony returns to the Library.
Celebrate the Summer Reading Challenge
Save the date for this joyous jamboree of Key Stage 1 reading.
Refugee’s Journey: A Drama Workshop
Use drama activities to explore space and characterisation, while learning about the experiences of refugees.
Elizabeth and Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens
Experience Tudor life and explore the turbulent relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots.
Once Upon a Time
Through exploring the story of the Three Little Pigs, pupils will develop storytelling skills, strengthening their literacy and oracy.
Write Like a Poet
What makes a poem? Do they have to rhyme? Can they be silly?
Musical Storytellers
Combine literacy with music to have fun developing vocabulary, oracy and comprehension skills.
Once Upon a Time: Tell a Story
Students take a well-known story and develop storytelling skills through performance, strengthening their literacy and language skills.
Voyage into Maps
Students will explore maps on display in our Treasures Gallery, thinking critically about their many uses and styles.
Once Upon a Time: Make a Story
Students will create a new story as a class, developing their literacy and language skills through imaginative play.
Listen Up! Sound Lab
Students use a range of techniques to create, collect, amplify, mix, layer and record sound in this hands-on session.
Research Matters Primary
Start developing your class's research skills in this session touching on information literacy, observation, analysis and more.
Write Here
Students will explore the Library and our Treasures gallery to gain inspiration in this creative writing workshop.
Exploring Black British Literature
Explore the rich history of Black writing and literature in Britain.
Sounds Familiar?
Uncover ways of analysing speech, accent and dialect by diving into oral history collections from the National Sound Archive.