Welcome Year 7! We hope you have discovered our treasure trove of a library. You are now tasked with tricky decision of choosing a brand-new book from twelve selected titles to keep as your very own. Which book will you choose? Browse our top picks below by reading each blurb, […]
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Bookbuzz ’22 – time to choose your book, Year 7
Welcome Year 7! We hope you have discovered our treasure trove of a library. You are now tasked with tricky decision of choosing a brand-new book from sixteen selected titles to keep as your very own. Which book will you choose? Browse our top picks below by reading each blurb, […]
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Continue readingYear 7 Bookbuzz Bonanza!
Just in time for February’s half-term break, Year 7 received their titles from Bookbuzz thanks to the generosity of the George Green’s Trust. This means that every student in Key Stage 3 now has a book they’ve specifically chosen to keep to add to their own personal library. The most […]
Continue reading‘The Race’ by Roy Peachey (KS3)
‘Not your typical happily ever after, Roy has written a wonderfully relatable and inclusive tale, where all are welcome, and the beauty of sport brings everyone together in the end. There are life lessons to be learned in this inspiring story with friendship at its heart.’ Shaunagh Brown, International Rugby […]
Continue readingBookbuzz ’21: a new book for every Year 7
Welcome Year 7! You have the wonderful, if not slightly difficult, decision of choosing one book from thirteen selected titles to keep as your very own by October 22nd 2021. You will be able to register your choice in your English lesson. The question is: which book will you decide […]
Continue readingOur new ‘Shelf Care’ Section for Well-Being
Books can help us navigate life’s big challenges, providing advice and support in understanding and managing our mental health and well-being. Our new ‘shelf-care’ reading section is a mixture of fiction, non-fiction, personal accounts, picture books and poetry covering topics including anxiety; stress management; OCD; depression; body image; self-esteem; gender […]
Continue reading‘After the War’ by Tom Palmer (KS3)
Longlisted for the The CILIP Carnegie Medal 2021 Synopsis: Summer 1945. The Second World War is finally over and Yossi, Leo and Morecai are among three hundred children who arrive in the English Lake District. Having survived the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps, they’ve finally reached a place of […]
Continue reading‘Amal Unbound’ by Aisha Saeed (KS3+)
Amal is a young girl who dreams of being a teacher. She stays behind to help her teacher regularly and is a keen reader. After her mother gives birth to another girl and develops post-partum depression, Amal stays at home to look after the home and family and has to […]
Continue readingThe CILIP Carnegie Medal Shortlist 2021
The CILIP Carnegie Medal is the UK’s oldest children’s book award, recognising outstanding reading experiences created through writing for children and young people. The shortlist this year includes our most recent YA Fiction Staff Book Club’s Book of the Month Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo as well as […]
Continue reading‘The Night Diary’ by Veera Hiranandani (KS3+)
This is a beautiful book which explores the power of relationships in its many guises. In particular, I loved the relationship Nisha and her twin brother Armil have – how she sees him and the way they complete each other. I loved the relationship Nisha has with cooking too; how […]
Continue readingBringing the LRC to the classroom
Thanks to the generous support of the George Green’s School Trust Fund, we have installed ‘mini-libraries’ in each of our Year 7 and 8 English classrooms to supplement the wonderful array of titles in the LRC, and on VLeBooks. Each mini-library houses multiple copies of some of our most popular […]
Continue readingJust in!
Hitting the shelves this week in the LRC, are a range of brand new fantastic graphic books and novels including the powerful Illegal by Eoin Colfer, Andrew Donkin and Giovanni Rigano, George Orwell’s Animal Farm, Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. You can now visit […]
Continue readingWelcome Year 7
Staff from the across the English faculty share their favourite books and poems in anticipation of meeting our new Year 7 students.
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