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 […]
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‘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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Staff from the across the English faculty share their favourite books and poems in anticipation of meeting our new Year 7 students.
Continue readingYear 9 Recommended Reads
‘Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well’. Mark Haddon Reading for just 20-30 minutes everyday helps to improve your knowledge and understanding of the world around you, your confidence, and your reading and writing skills. It also helps to you to relax and […]
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‘A book is a dream that you hold in your hand’. Neil Gaiman Reading for just 20-30 minutes everyday helps to improve your knowledge and understanding of the world around you, your confidence, and your reading and writing skills. It also helps to you to relax and exercise your imagination; […]
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‘That’s the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet‘. Jhumpa Lahiri Reading for just 20-30 minutes everyday helps to improve your knowledge and understanding of the world around you, your confidence, and your reading and writing skills. It also helps to you to relax and exercise […]
Continue readingBookbuzz: a new book for every Year 7 & 8 student
From September 2020, all Year 7 and Year 8 students will be asked to choose one book from ten selected titles to keep. Which book will you decide on? Browse our top picks below by reading each blurb, and click on individual book covers to discover more about the author […]
Continue readingThe CILIP Carnegie Medal 2020
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 saw stories full of hope, discovery and understanding a little more about ourselves and the world we live in. Here’s our pick of […]
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