Diversity resources
As part of their work on diversity and inclusion at St Paul's, the Diversity Group has been looking at our library and adding resources to ensure it is inclusive and promotes equality.
Here you will find a list of the books titles that have recently been purchased with funds from the St Paul's Community Group - SPCG - as well as the school budget.
The focus so far has been books with black protagonists, or that connect with Black history and promote anti-racism.
These books are now in the school library and in classrooms and kindergartens, and have supported the teaching during Black History Month.
Work on the library continues - the focus next will be on LGBTQIA+, followed by disability and neurodiversity.
Kindergarten
Baby Goes to Market,Splash! Anna Hibiscus- Atinuke
Busy Fingers - C W Bowie
Let's feed the ducks - Pamela Venus
Handa's Surprise and Handa's Hen -Eileen Browne
We are Together - Britta Teckentrup
Alfie - Thyra Heder
Through the Rainbow - Lou Harvey-Zahra
The Snowy Day, Whistle for Willie,Hi Cat! - Jack Ezra Keats
Blackberry Blue and other fairy tales - Jamila Gavin
No Dinner - Jessica Souhami
Hummingbird - Nicola Davies
My Nanna's Garden - Dawn Casey
Mrs Noah's Garden - Jackie Morris
Chinye - Obi Onyefulu
Flock Gemma Koomen
Over and Under the Pond - Kate Messner
All are Welcome - Alexandra Penfold
Sulwe - Lupita Nyong'o
Mama Panya's Pancake - Mary and Rich Chamberlin
Growing Good - Bernard Ashley
Mirandy and Brother Wind - Patricia McKissack
Classes I - III
Happy in our Skin - Fran Manushkin
Anna Hibiscus, Africa Amazing Africa - Atinuke
Chanra's Magic Light - Theresa Heine
Cinnamon - Neil Gaiman
Hey Water, A New Green Day - Antoinette Portis
The Honey Hunters - Francesca Martin
Being Ben - Jacqueline Roy
So Much - Trish Cooke
Amazing Grace - Mary Hoffman
The Infinite - Patience Agbabi
Precious and the Monkeys, The Girl Who Married a Lion - Alexander McCall Smith
Racism and Intolerance - Louise Spilsbury
Classes IV - VIII
Black and British - a short esssential history - David Olusoga
The Lotteries Plus One, The Lotteries More or Less by Emma Donoghue
Asha and the Sprit Bird - Jasbinder Bilan
White Fox - Chen Jiatong
Amal Unbound - Aisha Saeed
Dragon Mountain - Katie and Kevin Tsang
Young, Gifted and Black - Jamia Wilson
Patina, Ghost, Sunny, Lu, Look Both Ways - Jason Reynolds
High Rise Mystery - Sharna Jackson
Blast off into Space with Mae Jamison - Caroline Moss
Noughts and Crosses - Malorie Blackman
Blonde Roots, Girl, Woman, Other - Bernadine Evaristo
12 Years a Slave - Solomon Northup
I am Malala - Malala Yousafzai
Anita and Me - Meera Syal
Taking Flight - from war orphan to star ballerina - Michaela DePrince
Running with the Kenyans - Adharanand Finn
I will not be erased - gal-dem
Mother Country - Real Stories of the Windrush Children - Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
Rise up - the art of protest - Jo Rippon
Becoming - Michelle Obama