'The beauty is behind the front cover': Inside Walsall school which has undergone 'significant changes'
One of the key drives at Blakenall Heath Junior School is promoting a love of reading in its pupils.
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Youngsters at the Bloxwich school are encouraged to write book reviews and earn rewards for every six books of different genres they read.
They can enjoy reading their books in the school's library, which has recently undergone some changes.
Headteacher Diane Newton said: "They go in the library and we have big bean bags where they just read what books they want to read that aren't being forced upon them.
"The library was once a multi-purpose room, is now solely a library, and the children love it because it belongs to them and they love that."
Miss Newton took on the post at the Field Road school, which forms part of The Lighthouse Federation, in September last year and said the education children are being provided with has "significantly changed".
The headteacher explained: "At the school we have taken a different direction and journey from what predominantly had been and I think the main reason for that is having some ownership of the children here.
