{"id":54432,"date":"2022-09-05T08:16:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T08:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2022\/09\/05\/bourn-school-transforms-bus-into-library-in-memory-of-pupil\/"},"modified":"2022-09-05T08:16:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T08:16:02","slug":"bourn-school-transforms-bus-into-library-in-memory-of-pupil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2022\/09\/05\/bourn-school-transforms-bus-into-library-in-memory-of-pupil\/","title":{"rendered":"Bourn school transforms bus into library in memory of pupil"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A double-decker bus has been converted into a school library in memory of a five-year-old student.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lyla Blue Glennen was in Year 1 at Bourn Primary Academy in Cambridgeshire when she died of a brain haemorrhage in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“We really wanted something to commemorate them with and this project seemed like the perfect fit,” said Headmaster Laura Latham.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When the school year begins, students can use the bus library.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Books have been donated from around the world and Ms Latham said the children “can’t wait” to choose from the “amazing books” they have.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The idea for the project came from Lyla’s teacher, Judith Balls, who was frustrated that the school only had a small non-fiction area in a corridor and no library room.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms Balls convinced a local bus company to donate a former London bus, and the school and the local community set about converting it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“It was a great privilege for me to have Lyla in my class and we missed her terribly when she passed, but I know she would be really happy that we made it through,” she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Simone Glennen, Lyla’s mother, contributed design ideas for the bus and helped with the cleaning and painting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She said the bus library meant “the world” to the family. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“It’s the icing on the cake of all the things the school has done to help us,” she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lyla’s younger brother, Heath, is about to begin his freshman year at the school.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ms Glennen said the bus library meant he could “always have a part of his sister with him at school”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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