1. School Motto & Mission:
Learning Today, Leading Tomorrow
The mission of Worth County Primary School is to
provide students with a solid educational foundation
that will ensure a successful journey towards
graduation and productive citizenship.
Worth County
Primary School
1304 N. Isabella Street
Sylvester, GA 31791
229-776-8660

2. Outside View of School
Outside entrance to media center.

3. WCPS Vision
 Our vision for Worth County Primary School is to assist
students in the development of their full potential through
differentiated instruction that is challenging and motivating.
 To achieve this vision we will make curricular and instructional
decisions that are data driven, standards-based, and provide the
necessary scaffolding for student achievement.
 We will dedicate ourselves to the success of our students by
being life-long learners and outstanding educators through the
use of professional development and research based practices.
 As a result, our students will be offered a quality standards-
based curriculum with appropriate instructional technology to
prepare them for their life-long educational journey.

4. WCPS Beliefs
 Students learn best when they are actively engaged through
quality time on task.
 Each student is a unique learner and should be provided
differentiated instruction.
 Students learn best in a safe, orderly, and well-disciplined
environment.
 Prompt and regular attendance by students, teachers, and
staff leads to improved performance.
 Teachers, parents, and the community share the
responsibility in preparing students to learn, grow, and
function as productive citizens.

5. WCPS School Map
 The media
center is
located at the
front entrance
of the school.
 It is centrally
located to all
classrooms
and is directly
across from
the main
office.
Media Center Front Office

6. WCPS Media Center Goals
 To provide materials and learning experiences that contribute to
lifelong learning and support a wide variety of teaching and learning
styles, student needs, abilities, and interests.
 To provide students and teachers with physical and intellectual access
to the variety of informational resources and materials necessary to
support the achievement of curricular and instructional goals.
 To assist students in the development of attitudes and skills which
enable them to become independent,
life-long learners.
 To maintain a program that functions
as the information center of the school
with a climate conducive to
self-exploration, experimentation and
self-fulfillment

7. WCPS Media Center Profile
 Opened in 1995
 Serves approximately 950 students, PreK-2nd
 Serves 70+ faculty members
 One full-time media clerk
 One full-time media specialist
Media Specialist
Shayla Norman
Media Clerk 
Annie Toomer

8. Media Center Location
 The media center is located on the left as you walk in
the front of the building.
 It is centrally located and is easily accessible to all
classrooms.
Media Center entrance.
View from front of school View from Corridor

9. Current Facilities Floor Plan
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The current floor plan includes media specialist’s office, teacher work room, storage
closet, break room w/restroom, media clerk’s office/teacher resource room,
storybook corner, reference room & attendance keepers office

10. Circulation Desk
 The circulation desk is located in the front of the
media center beside the media specialist office.
 The media specialist office has one window to view the
circulation desk and most of the media center.
Media specialist office
behind circulation desk

11. View from Circulation Desk
 The view of the media center from the circulation desk is very
open. There is a mirror in the back corner to make it easier for
the media specialist and clerk to monitor students in the media
center.
Mirror for
observing
browsers

12. Media Specialist’s Office
 The media
specialist office
is located directly
behind the
circulation desk
 There is one
window so that
the MS can keep
an eye on the
circulation
desk at all
times.

13. Storage Room w/ Restroom
 This storage room is located
directly behind the
circulation desk and next
door to the media specialist
office.
 At this time this room is used
more as a break room
(notice microwave).
 A restroom is located in the
corner of this room.
 An entrance door to the
storage closet is in this
room.

14. Storage Closet
This storage closet behind the media specialist’s office houses many daily
necessities for media operation but should be more organized
Left Side Right Side

15. Teacher Resource Room
 The teacher resource room houses many, many resources
teachers may need to help them with particular students.
 Has computer software, music CD’s and computer games.
 Serves as media clerk’s office
 Houses the only color copier in the school.

16. Teacher Workroom
 The teacher workroom is
located in the front of the
media center to the left as
you walk in the main
entrance.
 The workroom houses the
laminating machine, paper cutter
and comb binding machine.
 It also has our “closed Circuit”
equipment used for the morning
announcements.

17. Storybook Corner
 The storybook corner is
located in the very back of
the media center.
 There is a Dewey Decimal
rug on the floor.
 Walls are bare and not very
inviting to students and
faculty.
 There is enough room to
seat 2-3 classes at once.

18. Reading Carousel
 The reading carousel is
located in the very front of
the media center.
 It tends to be an eye sore
because it blocks the view of
the entire media center as
you walk in. (The media
entrance door is directly
behind the carousel in this
picture)
 The carousel seats 6
students but very rarely gets
used.

19. Reading Loft
 The Reading Loft is located on the wall between the Storybook
Corner and the Emergency Exit doors. Teachers may send up to
four children at a time to read in top of the loft due to space and
safety. Student’s may also purchase extra loft time with AR
points.

20. Reference Room
 The reference room is located in
the back of the media center
next door to the Attendance
Keeper’s office.
 It houses all reference materials
and listening center books &
tapes.

21. Attendance Keeper’s Office
 The office in the back of the
media center is the office of
WCPS’s Attendance Keeper.
 This office use to be used
by the media center
as an AR store but
was needed this
year for other
reasons.
 There is a door
going into the MC &
into the main hall
of the school.

22. The STACKS!
 All AR books are color
coded and shelved together.
 The non-fiction section is
very overcrowded yet many
bookshelves are empty in
the fiction section.

23. Positive Survey Results…
 The physical layout flows well, it's set up in a friendly
way, and works well for children with disabilities.
 Reading Loft is comfortable for students to sit and read.
 Large area in the Storybook Corner for story time.
 Students can easily check in and out books on their own.
 Media center offers laminating services to teachers.
 Media center staff portrays good attitudes and they are
very welcoming to students and staff.

24. Negative Survey Results…
 There are no listening stations for the
students to sit and listen to books in the media center.
 Not enough space to seat a whole class to have whole
group lessons.
 No place for students to sit and read while in the media
center / no comfortable seating.
 Storybook Corner’s bare walls are boring to visitors and
browsers.
 AR books should be intermingled with the other books so
that they can learn to find their way around the library
rather than just through AR books.

25. Facility Change Suggestions
 Listening stations should be added.
 Additional tables should be added to allow adequate
seating for an entire class.
 Comfortable furniture should be added to create a more
inviting environment for students to “snuggle up” with a
good book.
 Carousel should be removed to make space
for the new tables and chairs.
 Small reading tables should be placed at
the end of a few stacks to allow students a
place to “preview” their books before
checking out.

26. Listening Stations
Listening stations will be placed across the wall in the storybook
corner for students to sit and listen to their favorite stories while
visiting the media center.
 Problem: There are no listening
stations for the students to sit
and listen to books in the media
center.
 Solution: Children’s Listening
Stations - Daisy Station
 www.demco.com
 Price: $1,774.99 each

27. Tables and Chairs
Five sets of tables and chairs will be purchased to provide enough
space to seat an entire class for instructional purposes. Students
may also use these tables for research with visiting the media center.
 Problem: Not enough space to seat a
whole class for whole group lessons.
 Solution: 48" Round Table Set with
Addison Chairs, Medium Cherry/Oak
 www.demco.com
 Price: $1,294.99 each
 Each set comes with 1 table & 4 chairs

28. Reading Tables
Reading tables will be purchased and placed at the end of the stacks
so that students will have a place to relax and read in the media
center.
 Problem: Students need a
place to sit and read in the
media center.
 Solution: Texwood™ 78"W
Children's Reading Table
 www.highsmith.com
 Price: $1,165.00 each

29. Comfortable Furniture
Comfortable furniture will be placed near the storybook corner to
provide a place for students to “snuggle up” with a good book.
 Problem: No comfortable seating available in the media center
 Solution: Kidovation Children’s Furniture – chair, ottoman &
loveseat
 www.demco.com
 Price: $309.99 - chair
$154.99 - ottoman
$354.99 - loveseat

30. Improved Facilities Floor Plan
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Reading Carousel is
removed to make
additional room for tables
and chairs.
Four listening centers were
placed in the storybook corner
for students to access during
the day.
5 tables are added to allow the
media specialist to seat a full class.
Comfortable seating is
placed near the storybook
corner for places for
students to read.

31. Current Media Policies
Media Center Orientation
 Media Center orientation is provided for each homeroom during the first
"specials" rotation two weeks of the school year to discuss checkout
procedures, media center rules, location of materials and care of books.
Each class MUST attend orientation before students are allowed to check
out books.
Hours of Operation
 The WCPS media center operates on a flexible schedule and is open daily
from 7:15 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. on regular school days and teacher planning
days. Students and faculty have access to all media services, materials,
and equipment. Students may come to the media center at any time during
the day except from 11:45 – 12:45 due to the MS’s lunch and lunch duty, to
return books, use reference materials, or use computer look up stations.
Students may check out books from 8:30 until 2:45 8:00 – 3:10.
Red= suggestion for change/addition

32. Current Media Policies
Checkout Procedures
 1st grade students may check out only one book at a time, 2nd graders may
check out two books; this book must be returned before another one can
be checked out. Each student is assigned a patron number (check out
number) on the automated system.
 In order to check out a book, the student should bring their bookmark and
scan their book. No due date is given; however, a reminder will be sent
through the student's teacher when a book has been out for over two
weeks.
 When books are returned they should be dropped into the slot at the end of
the circulation desk checked in at the “check in” station. Materials other
than books should be returned directly to one of the media center staff.
 Shelf markers are provided for students to use when choosing a book.
Students are asked to browse carefully and replace any book that is not
chosen in the same position on the shelf from which it was pulled.
Red= suggestion for change/addition

33. Current Media Policies
Browsers
 Teachers may send up to five three unaccompanied students to the
media center at one time. These browsers are asked to come after
the first 15 minutes of the instructional block of time so that they will
not interfere with the checkout time of the scheduled "specials"
group. Each browser must wear a browser tag with his or her
teacher's name on it.
 Browsers may stay in the media center for no more than 30 minutes.
Students may read in the reading loft, in the rocking chairs or on
beanbag chairs (there are no beanbag chairs). They may use
reference materials, read magazines, access the Internet (with
teacher's permission and appropriate instruction), or simply look for
a book to check out.
Red= suggestion for change/addition

34. Current Media Policies
Damaged/Lost Materials
 Media center materials lost or damaged by a student, or while
checked out to a student must be paid for. The cost of the lost book
is the original price. Damage is assessed by the media specialist
and books found to be unusable because of damage must be
replaced. The original purchase price will be charged for this.
Damaged books in unusable condition are taken off the database
and discarded. They do not become the property of the student.
 Check out privileges of students with lost or damaged materials are
suspended until the item has been returned or paid for; however the
student may still visit the media center and use materials in the
media center as usual. Students will be placed on a payment plan if
they cannot afford to pay the entire fee at one time. Replacement of
a missing or damaged barcode will cost the student $1.
Red= suggestion for change/addition

35. Worth County Primary School
Media Center Facility Plan
Shayla Norman
FRIT 7132
Dr. Green
Fall 2010