I’ve just finished adding our lovely new KS3 Book Group books ready for September! Shirley Hughes Hilary McKay Piers Torday Tom Palmer Jane Elson @moontrug I won’t be showing them to the students until September, what a lovely way to start our new year!😀ReadingRocks

Final preparations are underway for our Ross Welford author visit on Friday.The Primary school students are VERY excited about their workshops with Ross and our YR7 students are excited about their assembly with him. ReadingRocks ReadingZone Waterstones Camberley

Here is Maddie’s(YR7)Book Review of Chinglish Sue Pickford Cheung - updates I love that the book made Maddie feel such contrasting feelings ‘’sad,cringey,shocked,surprised & embarrassed’’ Maddie confessed that she read the book in just one day! Andersen Press ReadingZone ReadingRocks

I've just loaned out all 11 of my remaining copies of Chinglish Sue Pickford Cheung - updates to the students in one YR7 English class! 😁😁 They were super excited that Sue visited our school last week! Andersen Press ReadingZone ReadingRocks

We’re having a fantastic day with Ross Welford Waterstones Camberley ReadingRocks ReadingZone

Our visiting YR6 students had a lovely time today working with Ross Welford they were fully engaged and full of creative ideas! Huge thx to Waterstones Camberley for supporting us! A wonderful end to our school year. Authors Aloud UK ReadingRocks ReadingZone

Look what arrived in the LRC today! what a beautiful book this is. Many thanks to Lost Words for Surrey for donating it to us! ReadingRocks I will update again in September when we start using it in lessons.😀

We have launched our Summer Reading Challenges to the staff and students, they are both proving to be very popular! 😀 ReadingRocks ReadingZone

We've just had our second Book Group meeting and had some fantastic discussions! They are both thought provoking and powerful books with v.unusual story lines, the students loved them both! Ele Fountain Polly Ho-Yen ReadingRocks ReadingZone

We had our last “Free Writing Friday” session at lunch time, everyone was really excited to to have so much time available during the Summer holidays to explore their new found love of writing! Cressida Cowell ReadingRocks

We're really looking forward to meeting our lovely new YR7 students tomorrow in the LRC.

All YR7 students had their LRC induction session today and we have been extremely busy with customers at lunch time! I feel we have an exciting year ahead! ReadingRocks

We've been really busy in the LRC as our new YR7 students are keen readers! ReadingRocks ReadingZone

We’ve been busy testing the YR7 & YR8 students Accelerated Reader UK & Ireland it’s been lovely discovering so many keen readers! ReadingRocks ReadingZone

We had a ''Book Busters'' meeting on Thursday and discussed the Terrible Thing that Happened to Barnaby Brocket John Boyne & Running on the Roof of the World @J_T_Butterworth We had some wonderful discussions and would highly recommend both books. ReadingRocks ReadingZone

We're busy preparing for our Open Evening on Thursday, and have some fantastic activities planned! Thanks Lucas Maxwell for the ideas! ReadingRocks ReadingZone

NOW booking #ChinglishBook School Tour with Sue Pickford Cheung - updates for November! Full details & criteria here: pgbb.co.uk/free

The Tomlinscote LRC twitter account may be quiet until after the half term due to staff changes.😀

Our Book Busters have been reading Armistice Runner by Tom Palmer and The Skylarks’ War by Hilary McKay and have come up with some great discussions and comments about both books. We’d definitely recommend! ReadingRocks ReadingZone

Who else has been watching #HisDarkMaterials on BBC One? We’ve got the books ready to read if you can’t wait for the next episode! #NorthernLights #TheSubtleKnife #TheAmberSpyglass Philip Pullman ReadingRocks ReadingZone #SchoolLibrary