We done got interviewed!

It’s the most wonderful time of the year ❄️📚✨Bedes Library #poplibrary #readmore #bedesreads #bedes

Children's books are the cornerstone of our culture. They're the books that make us readers & shape us in the deepest ways. Even if the media ignore them, we all know how vital they are. So THANK YOU to everyone who's been sharing, celebrating & championing children's books!

Bedes Library has some fantastic books to borrow for the Christmas break. Make sure you visit before the end of term! #AcademicPE #Sport #PE #Literacy #Learning Pete Goodyer Bede's Senior School #TeamBEDES

Bedes Library has some interesting books to borrow over the Christmas holiday. Be sure to visit before the end of term. #AcademicPE #Literacy #Biology #Anatomy #Physiology #SportScience #GCSEPE Bedes Library Bedes STEM #TeamBEDES Pete Goodyer

Christmas Prep has been released, and BTEC Sport Coaching Assessments are fast approaching. Make sure you have a Distinction-level coaching plan for the January deadline. Bedes Library Pete Goodyer #TeamBEDES

We call them children's books, but really, they're books written for an audience that includes children, but excludes no-one - and you can never, ever be too old to read them! I wrote about some of my all-time favourites in this piece for Foyles Bookshop : foyles.co.uk/SF-Said-Blog

If you loved Wednesday... #bedesreads #wednesdayaddams #wednesday @ Hailsham, East Sussex instagram.com/p/CnkALfZLPlf/…

To find out why my first priority as a new Head was to restore a library at the heart of our school- and why libraries are more important now than ever before - have a read of my latest blog post: petermiddleton.blog/2023/01/11/a-n…

Holocaust Memorial Day #bedesreads #holocaust #holocaustmemorialday #ordinarypeople @ Hailsham, East Sussex instagram.com/p/Cn6UgjqL3Hn/…

LGBT+ History Month starts today! I’ll be sharing resources via our PSHE website for pupils to explore throughout February 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️⚧️ Bede's Senior School LGBT+ History Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #lgbthistorymonth #LGBTplusHM #educateoutprejudice #PSHE #Bedes

Throughout February, we will share resources via our PSHE website to encourage pupils to talk about the bigger picture of LGBT+ experience, in which LGBT+ people were the agents of change. This year, the theme is #BehindTheLens, celebrating LGBT+ peoples’ contribution to cinema.

Lovely to welcome Lisa Heathfield to ‘Brilliant Books & Biscuits’ to discuss our shared text for February - ‘I am Not A Number’. There’s nothing like hearing about the creative process from a writer, especially one as fascinating as Lisa Heathfield. Bede's Senior School Bedes Library

Every single school needs a library. Every single child needs a librarian in their life. Because librarians create the readers of the future! #GreatSchoolLibraries cilip.org.uk/news/news.asp?… (Art: chris riddell)

I can finally announce that I've been collaborating on a dark YA illustrated tale for Two Hoots, with illustrations provided by the brilliant Emily Gravett! Island of Whispers will be published this autumn, and it's looking very, very pretty...

Telling lies about what was being taught in sex ed in schools was one of the ways section 28 started. Eagerly enabled by the Mail / Telegraph / Sun, of course. We cannot let these dreadful people, who want kids to live in shame, fear and ignorance, do this again.

If you’ve followed me for a while you’ll know I’ve been banging this drum for years. Libraries are statutory in prisons (rightly) and not in schools (very, very wrongly). This takes a minute to sign, but countless lives could be changed - please spare it a moment of your time xxx

🌟 BOOK NEWS 🌟 I have a new novel for adults called HEY, ZOEY coming May 2024 Bloomsbury Books UK 🇬🇧🇮🇪 & June 2024 Little, Brown and Co 🇺🇸 And here is the incredibly stylish jacket designed by the brilliant Gregg Kulick

I promise you, this is a book of the year. Such great news.

A huge thank you to the brilliant Sarah Crossan and the inimitable Ms Arduino for a superb lunchtime Q&A celebrating creativity, resilience and our students’ prize-winning poems. Well done to all students & to our peerless host, librarian Ms Evans. Pete Goodyer Sarah Crossan