NOVEMBER #BOOKSHOPSPREE 6 WINNERS: Eday Community School, Orkney £350; Cottishall Primary, Norfolk £500; Brook Community, Ashford £500; Town Farm Primary, Spelthorne £600 Mayfield School, Portsmouth £750; Joseph Cash Primary, Coventry £500

DECEMBER #BOOKSHOPSPREE 4 WINNERS: Wirral Hospital School £650; Yorkmead Primary, Birmingham £500; Shap Community School, Lake District £300; Lickhill Primary, Stourport £400. Winners emailed this evening with next steps *pls check junk!*

Wow! What an amazing afternoon! Thanks to the incredible Siobhan Dowd Trust, we have chosen some fantastic news books for school from Kenilworth Books🌱🌺🌻🦔....and enjoyed a hot chocolate whilst we had a little read!

We had a fantastic time choosing books for the library at Waterstones today. Thank you for the book spree Siobhan Dowd Trust.

After too long a delay (sorry!) pleased to say that this week I'll be announcing all the spree winners for January/February/March/April 2024! In mid-November will announce May/June 2024 & in December July/August (September/October/November/December probably the New Year)

So... the JANUARY BOOKSHOPSPREE WINNERS ARE: Bow Brickhill Primary, Bedfordshire £500; Whitehall Primary, Chingford £650; Sacred Heart School, Sheffield £650; Norton Juxta Kempsey Primary, Worcestershire £500 Sorry if not you... you are welcome to reapply but do redraft!

February 2024 bookshopspree winners: Upton Primary, Macclesfield £500; Streatham Wells Primary, Lambeth £500; Lapford Community Primary, Devon £500; Weston Mill Primary, Plymouth £500; Holy Family Primary, Co Derry £850; St Matthews Catholic Primary, Liverpool £650.

March 2024 Bookshopspree winners (we have 8 so will split this into 2) 1/2: Lee Bridge Nursery & Infants, West Yorkshire £500; Town Farm Primary, Spelthorne £500; Churchfield Church School, Sedgemoor £650; Brampton Primary, Gillingham £650...

March 2024 Bookshopspree winners continued, 2/2: Glebe Farm School, Milton Keynes £500; Wheelwright Lane Primary, Coventry £500; Holyrood Academy, Chard £650; Kirkstall Valley Primary, Leeds £500.

There are 4 April 2024 Bookshopspree winners: Treetops Learning Community Trust, Grays, Essex £650; The Westwood Academy, Coventry £650; Portal House School, Dover £500; Pakeman Primary School, Islington £500.

THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH. Cannot wait to tell the children 😁 Kirkstall Valley Primary School

#Bookshopspree winners for MAY: **We have two** The Charter School, East Dulwich £1000; Ormiston Bollingbroke Academy, Runcorn £750

#Bookshopspree winners for JUNE now (all 6 winners will have just had an email re next steps) West Chiltington Community School, W Sussex £500; Hall Rd Academy, Hull £500; Culgaith CofE School, Cumbria £500. 1/2 continued....

#Bookshopspree June winners continued: Ark John Primary Academy, Battersea £500; Chadwell Heath Academy, Romford £1000; and Ormiston Horizon Academy, Turnstall, Stoke on Trent £500. 2/2 that's all until end of the month when I hope to do July & August entries!

#Bookshopspree winners for JULY (the 7 winning schools have just had an email re next steps) Anfield Rd Primary, Liverpool £500 The Blue Secondary School, Wells £750 The Oaks Primary, Ellesmere Port £500 Marden Lodge, Caterham £650 St Paul's Primary, Brinnington £650 1/2

#Bookshopspree winners for JULY continued now (winners will have just had an email re next steps) St Mary's Primary, Hadleigh Suffolk £500 Rotherfield Primary £500 2/2

And the #bookshopspree winners for AUGUST are 2 schools: Falconbrook Primary, Clapham £750; East Markham Primary, Nottingham £750 Pls check emails for next steps!

SEPTEMBER (2024 sorry - long overdue!) #bookshopspree winners: St Columba's College, Portaferry £500 Oasis Academy Watermead, Sheffield £500 Dudhope House Young People's Unit, Dundee £500 & St Francis de Sales Junior School, Liverpool £750 All winners will be emailed!

OCTOBER 2024 #bookshopspree winners - we have 7 Mossfield Primary, Salford £500; Kinetic Academy £500; St Edmunds, Wolverhampton £750; River Tees Secondary Academy £500; Brecknock Primary, Camden £500; Holy Spirit Academy, Liverpool £500; Cairns Primary, Cambuslang £500

Our pupils visited Pritchards Bookshop today and explored the shelves and chose new titles for our library thanks to a generous £500 grant from Siobhan Dowd Trust The children discussed authors, read blurbs, and collaborated with the shop staff to pick out the most captivating books.