Leavers working on a video project in the library today

#wildlife #WildlifeCrossings

More photos of wildlife crossings in comments. Great idea!

Elephants are afraid of bees. A line of hives along a boundary is one of the most effective deterrents there is. We manage 222 beehives, including a women's beekeeping group in the Kibwezi Forest. When people and wildlife coexist, everyone gains: www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/projects/com...

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“If disabled young people don’t see writing like this, how can they believe that they too have a right to express themselves?” Rebecca Butler, in the latest @booksforkeeps.bsky.social , discusses the under-representation of disabled children in #KidLitUK

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Michael Rosen Funny Poems | Kids Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen YouTube video by Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen

Children on holiday?
Here's a little concert (20 mins) of some of my shorter funny poems:
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Did you know that the Book Trust recommends books too? Have a look on their website!!

Leaving Senior is a really... Supergirl! Who knew?!

Our first ever Library Legend award, given to a young man who is reading avidly at home!

More Reading Rockstars and Punctuality Pros!

More certificates for reading today!

More certificates!

Mr Elliot giving out reading certificates today in the library today S1 pupils! Reading Rockstars, and Punctuality Pros! Kudos!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Jane Austen Book Club completed Northanger Abbey today. We loved it! Sarah won the Folio Society copy of the book. No more club until August, when we will start Emma!

Photo of a copper coloured coin featuring the profile of a male head which has an indented message across it stating 'Votes for women'

Suffragette-defaced Edward VII penny with subversive political graffiti for the UK women's suffrage cause - 20thC, via British Museum #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

Kids’ Poems and Stories With Michael Rosen Official Michael Rosen Channel Every video and playlist here is approved by Michael himself. If it’s on this channel, it’s the real deal and safe for children. You may see “YTP” or “poop” remixes on...

There are 11 free-to-use poetry workshops here for pupils, teachers, parents. Each one has the sub-heading of 'What is poetry for kids' and each workshop has a title like 'The Book' or 'Newcomers'.
Use them how you want.
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"Beneath memory and experience, beneath imagination and invention, beneath words, there are rhythms to which memory and imagination and words all move. The writer's job is to go down deep enough to feel that rhythm, find it, move to it, be moved by it, and let it move memory and imagination to find words." — Ursula K. Le Guin, 2000

This quote comes from a talk Ursula gave as part of the Portland Arts & Lectures program of Literary Arts.

You can listen to the whole thing here: literary-arts.org/archive/ursu...

Carrongrange class visited the school library on Wednesday. H from GHS assisted, looking at Panda books with A! What a star!!

Notty the zebra and Tytan the black rhino arrived in our care with nothing. They found each other instead.

Months on, they're inseparable — mornings spent scampering through the bush, afternoons flopped together in the shade. One day they'll return to the wild: www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.o...

A photo of secondary school students and staff gathered around a table in the library looking at books and smiling. In a green and purple circle text says Early bird offer with the BookTrust Bookbuzz logo.

Don't miss out on the #Bookbuzz Secondary early bird offer!

Register your Year 7/8s before 15 May & pay by 26 June to receive a bonus pack of books worth £75. 📚

Over 2 million students have taken part in Bookbuzz so far - will your school join in this year?

Get involved 👇

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Michael Rosen and MC Grammar join forces for Gallery Kids Gallery Kids has acquired Ridiculous Raps & Rhymes, a "riotously funny" new poetry collaboration from former Children’s laureate Michael Rosen and rapper, educator and literacy champion MC Grammar.

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WHOO HOOO! The Jhalak Prize is celebrating 10 years and the longlist for 2026 is out!

Thought book burning ended 100 years ago? It’s happening in the U.S. today. 🔥📚

Tonight in Molde: "The Librarians" — a powerful doc on librarians fighting book bans & defending the freedom to read. 💬📖

This concerns us all. ✊ #libraries #FreedomToRead
@thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social

We have Freedom Braids and Lord of the Flies in the school library. Come on in for a peruse!

Watching the announcement of the Carnegie Medals for Writing and Illustration short lists at London Book Fair

Huge congratulations to everyone shortlisted 🎉

@carnegiemedals.bsky.social

#Carnegies2026 #readingforpleasure
#LBF26

Here they are! The shortlists for the #Carnegies2026 Congratulations to the illustrators on the shortlist for the Carnegie Medal for Illustration @carnegiemedals.bsky.social #booksky #KidLitUK
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Rescue is just the start. It’s no exaggeration to say Aura wouldn’t be alive today without our community of foster parents who stepped in to help us raise her mother, Arruba, and other orphaned animals. From thousands of miles away, you help create miracles like this.