‘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 […]
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Bookbuzz ’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 Wellbeing
Books can help us navigate life’s big challenges, providing advice and support in understanding and managing our feelings and personal growth. It’s reassuring, and often illuminating, to see ourselves or others in what we read when trying to take better care of ourselves and those around us. Our new ‘shelf-care’ […]
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 reading‘Clap When You Land’ by Elizabeth Acevedo (KS4+)
Clap When You Land follows Yahaira and Camino, two half-siblings from contrasting worlds who are unware that the other exists until the death of their father and carefully kept secrets begin to surface. The story is a powerful exploration of the rawness and complexity of loss within a family in […]
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 readingWorld Book Day 2021
Although World Book Day 2021 looked a little different this year from previous years of hidden books and costume donning, we celebrated the day with competitions and shared reads in form-time: Skysteppers by Katherine Rundell in Years 7 and 8 (scroll down below for more details) and One by Sarah […]
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 readingCoronaVirus Update
This is a very strange time for everyone, and there isn’t a single part of any of our lives which feels unaffected by COVID-19. We miss hearing about what you are reading as well as sharing recommendations with you in person. A number of organisations are offering their resources and […]
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.
Continue readingMs Harrison’s Desert Island Reads
‘Each peach pear plum, I spy Tom Thumb…’ – opening pageEach Peach Pear Plum, Allan Ahlberg and Janet Ahlberg (1978) My first text is the children’s book Each Peach Pear Plum – a classic picture book that introduces children to a number of characters from traditional stories like Robin Hood, […]
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 […]
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