Just getting my breath back after issuing over forty books to these wonderful children from L4C and L4D (Y7 classes) - their 2024 Genre Discovery Reading Challenge is well and truly underway! 📚#ReadingChallenge #WeLoveReadingForPleasure

A fantastic win - from a superb shortlist. We are reading the Older Readers list with our Y9 Book club. Over half (8 out of 17) of the pupils selected Thieves' Gambit as their choice, and are very excited about reading it. Congratulations Kayvion Lewis !

We launched a 'Genre discovery' Reading Challenge on World Book Day 7th March. Y8 pupils Zofia, Henry, and Stella had completed the 12 categories less than three weeks later, whilst Y7 Penny and Amelia completed theirs over the Easter break! Wonderful reading role models all!📚

What a fantastic shortlist - and perfect timing, as we are currently reading three of these in our Library book clubs!

"If children are to make sense of the past, it’s hugely important to tackle it and to have a wide selection of stories to help them." Here, author Jasbinder Bilan - I'm meant to be writing... recommends books about British history which explore unseen characters and their stories: booktrust.org.uk/news-and-featu…

Our new playlist of music to get you moving is now available to download on Spotify! 🎵🎉 Thanks to edith bowman for all the help. 💜 Don't forget to share your #MomentsForMovement. Download the playlist: bit.ly/4a5LXzT #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

It's #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek and this is our new display in response to the 2024 theme ‘Movement: Moving more for our mental health’. For some great tips to help us get the mental health benefits of movement visit mentalhealth.org.uk/movement-tips #MomentsForMovement

At last night's Nibbies (The British Book Awards), the superlatively talented Katherine Rundell was the recipient of both Book of the Year (the first time in 6 years that a children's writer has picked up the accolade) AND Author of the Year for Impossible Creatures! 🏆📖

What a perfect morning in the Library with three Y7&8 classes visiting to choose books for the 'Genre discovery' reading challenge. L4B & L4D stayed on, resulting in delightful clusters of children reading throughout the Library. My idea of Heaven! #WeLoveReading 📚

We are SO excited to reveal our incredible #YABookPrize shortlist 🤩 “This year’s shortlist truly encapsulates the joy of Young Adult fiction and the astounding talent here in the UK and Ireland." See the thread below to meet our shortlist 👇

What a pleasure to meet the King's St Alban's Y6 pupils and to be able to give them a taster of what the Senior School Library has to offer when they join us in September. Really delightful pupils who thoroughly engaged with our reading for pleasure activities! 📚

We are underway with #Bookbuzz! It's always a pleasure to start the school year with this activity for our Y7s. L4C were beautifully engaged with their 'speed-dating' session - all choosing a book to keep from the excellent titles selected by BookTrust #WeLoveReadingForPleasure

Y8 WRAITH (Library Book Club) off to the strongest of starts - delicious goodies baked by Katie and Amelia, and a choice of 3 fantasy future classics (Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell, Tyger SF Said & Skandar and the Unicorn Thief A.F. Steadman) We even had napkins!

Happy #WorldMentalHealthDay - particularly to those of us privileged to have a school (and even better - a school library 📚) as our workplace!

A selection of our favourite spook-tacular books for Halloween! 🎃 🧙‍♀️ 🦇 👻 🎃

The wait is over! Tonight George Capell OV (& son of our Assistant Librarian) will appear on #UniversityChallenge with his St Andrews teammates when they take on Cardiff at 8:30 pm BBC 2. Good luck George - we are so proud & excited! #ShapedByKings (particularly the Library 📚😊)

Starting today, we have four busy days in school with activities and events marking #AntiBullyingWeek In the Library we have a packed display and a brand new Anti-Bullying reading list! #ChooseRespect @AntilbullyingAll Anti-Bullying Alliance #AntiBullyingWeek

‘Sometimes you encounter a book and cannot work out how this miraculous event has happened’ We're delighted to announce that the winner of the #BookerPrize2024 is Orbital by Samantha Harvey. 🌌✨ Discover the book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-lib…

Author John Boyne John Boyne signing a copy of #Fire for the School Library ; 3rd title in his new quartet of novels. Thankyou Rossiter Books for hosting such an engaging event in Malvern. Fascinating stuff - from catharsis and authenticity to not 'staying in your lane'📚

We are all set to welcome our Foundation Y6 pupils King's St Alban's King's Hawford with ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’, some book title based games, and a scavenger hunt! #BigKings