We are incredibly excited to be welcoming Alex Foulkes 🌙 to St Peter's 8-13 in a couple of weeks! She'll be speaking to J1-3 and guests from Burton Green Primary School, and then doing exciting workshops with J1. Emails have been sent out about how to pre-order books for your child 📚💖

This week, Eren in J5 recommends the exciting Ready Play One by Ernest Cline as our #BookOfTheWeek!

Our final #BookOfTheWeek before half term is a team effort! Miles, Alexander, Jake AND Thomas in J2 got together to recommend "The Lonely Tree" by Nicholas Halliday!

Tomorrow! 🤩

We had the BEST time with Alex Foulkes 🌙 today, even despite the dreary weather! J1-3 had a brilliant time listening to her talk and taking part in a surprise game, and J1 got to design their perfect secret hideouts in workshops throughout the day. A vampirically delightful day!

To help everyone remember their (hopefully rather smoother) half-term holidays, Grace in J1 has recommended "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul" by Jeff Kinney as our new #BookOfTheWeek!

Are you a librarian, publisher or bookseller? Have you got an amazing book that will blow York's Year 7 and 8's socks off? Our nominations are now open for the 2025 York Book Award! Check the nominations criteria on the next post, and email us at [email protected]!

This week's #BookOfTheWeek is "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick, which has been recommended by Ben in J3, who found it really exciting even though reading isn't usually his thing!

15 things I’ve learned about Reading for Pleasure. A 🧵 1. Create designated reading time in class. 2. Preferably student-led - what do they want? Give them empowerment. 3. As teachers, equip yourself with what’s selling now, not what was selling when you were young.

This week, Aggy and Pixie in J5 have teamed up to recommend "A Good Girl's Guide to Murder" by Holly Jackson as our #BookOfTheWeek!

🎉 Congratulations to the 2024 Winners of the Yoto Carnegie Medals for Writing and Illustration, and Shadowers' Choice Medals The Carnegies: @StoryBreathing, @JospehACoelho and Tia Fisher (moving to Bluesky and Insta)! #YotoCarnegies24 Read the press release: yotocarnegies.co.uk/2024-winners-a…

Our penultimate #BookOfTheWeek for this school year comes from Isla and Dorothea in J4, who recommend "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins!

Our last #BookOfTheWeek was chosen by Noah in J2, and is the wonderfully summery but still slightly creepy "Over Sea, Under Stone" by the inimitable Susan Cooper!

Our first #BookOfTheWeek of the 2024-25 school year is "Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean" by Justin Somper, as recommended by Charlie in J3!

Thank you St. Peter’s - and especially to Charlie! I’m very honoured to be the first #BookOfTheWeek for this school year! Here’s wishing you a great term of reading ahead! JS

This week's #BookOfTheWeek is a firm favourite here and has been recommended by Joy and Erin in J4: "Smile" by Raina Telgemeier !

We are very excited to be welcoming Tom Vaughan, who will be visiting us tomorrow to talk about the incredibly cool and heroic HERCULES!!

This week's #BookOfTheWeek is 'Finding Bear' by Hannah Gold - here sometimes 🤩, recommended by Bertie in J1!

Tabitha in J3 recommends this week's #BookOfTheWeek, "Daring Deeds: World War II Short Stories for Kids", just in time for #ArmisticeDay

We are delighted to announce our 2025 Longlist! Thank you for the brilliant books alexandradawe Phil Earle Clare Furniss @clarefurniss.bsky.social Nathanael Lessore Tom Palmer Katherine Rundell Radhika Sanghani Sam Sedgman Julian Sedgwick Chie Danny Weston!