Mary-Rose Grieve
School Librarian
Hartland International School
Mary-Rose Grieve has been the librarian at Hartland International School since 2015. She has responsibility for the three libraries in the school as well as the whole school reading strategy. She was the UAE Librarian of the Year in 2019 and is a founding director of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Association of School Librarians (ASL).
She is a member of the CILIP School Libraries Group national committee in the UK and co-chair of the Great School Libraries campaign which is working not only to ensure that every child has access to a school library and a librarian but also to create a framework for what a great school library looks like for school leaders and policy makers. She runs an Open University/ UKLA Teachers Reading Group in Dubai, a free year long professional development programme for teachers around creating and embedding a reading for pleasure pedagogy and practice in their classrooms. She is also a member of the Carnegies Organisation Group, which provides support to the Carnegie Awards, the UK’s longest running children’s book awards.
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