Nearly 50 years ago Joan Aiken wrote this letter for a #WorldBookDay wishing she could give everyone in the world just one book - she did her best by writing over 100...! It is a delightful read...do share with children today? #teachertwitter joanaiken.wordpress.com/2023/03/01/tak…

On Tuesday, we will celebrate #WorldPoetryDay as Zephaniah Day with 3 students performing ‘Dis Poetry’ by Professor Benjamin Zephaniah to the whole school… poetry WID LUV!! youtu.be/iHi6wIDaT1Y

Regardless of your darkness and the treachery of night Regardless of the brain clouds The sun is always bright

1 week left of our Spring Readathon @MEACentral …which house will have read the most pages???

@MEACentral ON FIRE 🔥 Manchester Cup WINNERS 2022-2023 🧡 so so proud of these boys! Huge shout to Mr. McCullough and Mr Pitts who’s absolute dedication, grit and hard work has got them this far 🔥🧡

Since #WorldBookDay2023 we've been running a Spring Readathon encouraging students to read and the results are in... so proud of our scholars!!!! Easter eggs for our top readers today. 🥚🥚🥚

For the first time in a century, #ramadan #Passover & #Easter have coincided. We will not live to see such a time again. Wishing all marking this past week & today peace - despite all attempts at war; light - despite the dark, and hope - despite every effort to extinguish it.

These tiny sci-fi stories will twist your mind!

'The Shape of Stories' "I think these are brilliant prompts to help our students see, consider and talk about the ‘shape of stories’. In doing so, it can bring to life sterile analysis of structure into something more meaningful." theconfidentteacher.com/2018/01/the-sh…

'How do you hold on' said night 'To love throughout the day?' ' To keep what I have' said light 'I have to give it away'. Photo by Todd Trapani from Pexels

Fantastic to see Women's Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her #WomensPrize shortlisted novel Demon Copperhead 🎉 Huge congratulations Barbara!

Festival of Libraries is a joyful celebration of the role that Greater Manchester’s 133 libraries play in wellbeing, culture, creativity and more - Manchester City of Literature. 📚 talkingaboutmygeneration.co.uk/manchester-cit…

🖤👻👻🖤GIVEAWAY🖤👻👻🖤 Welcome to Dead Town Raven McKay will be published on the 1st June. To win a signed copy and a cool, creepy notebook 🖤Follow me 👻RT Random draw. Ends 1st June UK&Éire only. Good Luck! Mikka @ Everything With Words #RavenMcKay #win #BookTwitter

Nothing better than a book delivery!

One in three say books offer best form of escapism when having a bad day theguardian.com/books/2023/jun…

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

‘We’re Going on a Bear Hunt’ the rap! Big shout out to Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 Helen Oxenbury & the @BIGPictureBooks Walker Books crew for creating and sharing this classic. Remember: you can’t rap a book if you can’t read a book. Over to you and your crew now. #BearHunt #MCGrammmar

Today we took some lovely reading students on a trip to Stockport air raid shelters! We explored how the world around us can be used as writing inspiration

Lego club in the library this afternoon!

Some of the book prizes we had for our year 6 transition day! Come find copies of these in our library