Christmas and New Year
Find out how your bin collection days and our opening hours are different over Christmas and New Year.
Topic boxes
Our topic boxes support the National Curriculum and are delivered directly to your school.
How it works
Boxes are tailor-made to your requirements. Subjects can be mixed and matched including those from our:
- reading for pleasure
- play-sets
- guided reading lists
How to order a topic box
To order a box you can either:
- email the Library Services for Schools team
- order online
Library Services for Schools team
Email: library.servicesforschools@westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk
Reading lists
Key Stage 1
Topics include:
- Bible Stories
- Colour
- Feelings and emotions
- Ourselves
- People who help us
- Schools
- Seaside Holidays
- Seasons
- Superheroes
- Transport
Key Stage 2
Topics include:
- Ancient Greece
- Ancient Sumer (limited range of titles)
- Anglo Saxons
- Benin (limited range of titles)
- Britain since 1930
- Bronze Age and Iron Age
- History of crime and punishment
- Digestion
- Europe
- Evolution and Inheritance
- Human Body
- Indus Valley
- Iron Age & Bronze Age
- Islamic Civilisation (limited range of titles)
- Mayan Civilisation
- Medicine through the Ages
- Natural Disasters
- North and South America
- Rocks and Fossils
- Roman Empire
- Shang Dynasty of Ancient China (limited range)
- States of Matter
- Stone Age
- Volcanoes
- World War 1
Key Stage 1 and 2
Topics include:
- Air
- Africa
- Ancient Egypt
- Ancient Romans
- Animals
- Animal Habitats
- Animals including humans
- Art or artists
- Aztecs
- Buildings
- Castles
- Clothes
- Coasts
- Conservation and recycling
- Continents
- Countries
- Crafts and drawing
- Design and Technology
- Dinosaurs
- Earth and Space
- Electricity
- Environment
- Exploration
- Farming
- Festivals and Celebrations
- Food
- Food Chains
- Forces
- Habitats
- Healthy Body, Healthy Mind
- Houses and Homes
- India
- Inventions
- Life Cycles
- Light
- Living things and their habitats
- London Machines
- Magnets
- Map skills and atlases
- Materials
- Mini-beasts
- Mountains
- Myths and legends
- Pets
- Plants and Trees
- Poetry and Rhymes
- Polar Regions
- Rainforests
- Rivers
- Sculpture
- Seaside
- Senses
- Settlements
- Significant People
- Sound
- Space and the solar system
- Teeth and healthy eating
- Toys
- Traditional tales
- Tudors
- Victorians
- Vikings
- Water
- Weather
- World Religions
- World War 2