Students holding up pictures of their reading animals
This term Dr O's Economics students are reading Talking to My Daughter by Yanis Varoufakis. They came up to the library today to collect their books, and while they were here they decided what reading animal they are - there were a lot of tortoises! #bedesreads #goallin #nationalyearofreading2026
Cover of We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
Miss Evans is currently reading... Share what you're reading in the comments! #bedesreads #goallin #nationalyearofreading2026
Image of cartoon zoo animals, text reads: The Reading Zoo: What kind of reader are you?
New blog post: What reading animal are you? Link in comments #bedesreads #goallin #nationalyearofreading2026
Book cover for Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans.
Miss Evans is currently reading... #bedesreads #goallin #nationalyearofreading2026
Go All In logo. Text reads Proud to support The National Year of Reading 2026.
Bede's is Going All In! #bedesreads #goallin #nationalyearofreading2026
Screenshot of blog post - Exams & Mental Health: Don't stress, the library's got you covered!
New blog post - how the library can help during exam season. Link in bio. #bedesreads #booksky #libraries #exams
We'll be reading three of these titles in next term's Brilliant Books and Biscuits. But not The Things We Leave Behind or Glasgow Boys because we already read those - look at us, fingers all over the literary pulse! #bedesreads #booksky #libraries
Lots of students and teachers in a library listening to stories
Brilliant Books and Biscuits Nostalgia Special: Dash of Wind in the Willows, a dollop of James and the Giant Peach, a drizzle of Frog and Toad, and a sprinkling of Pippi Longstocking - a really lovely World Book Day event! #bedesreads #booksky #libraries #librarylife
Chairs in a big circle, blankets and cushions all over the floor and cushions and throws on the chairs, ready for storytime!
Almost ready for our World Book Day Brilliant Books and Biscuits Nostalgia Special! #bedesreads #booksky #libraries #librarylife
Whatever career you want to pursue, reading books will get you there. #bedesreads #booksky
A brightly coloured noticeboard on a breeze-block wall, headed with the words Read Every Day, and covered in posters and slogans to do with reading, as well as pictures/illustrations/cartoons of, e.g., brains reading and lifting weights, piles of books, people reading.
A productive afternoon spent with our Reading Ambassadors, putting together a jolly new noticeboard outside the Sports Hall! #bedesreads #libraries #booksky
Loved 'Isaac and the Egg' (available in your friendly school library), and looking forward to this one! #bedesreads #booksky
Most of these excellent titles available from your friendly school library... 😊 #bedesreads #booksky #libraries
Also available from your friendly school library... #bedesreads #booksky #libraries
Standing room only for John McCullough this lunchtime. Fabulous poetry, great Q&A with some brilliant questions from the students, and Dr O and I may have won a bottle of wine each for the poems we wrote for the competition! #bedesreads #booksky #libraries #poetry
School library, set up with audience chairs in rows, a low table and 2 comfy chairs for the Q&A, and a lectern with fairylights for poetry reading
John McCullough is coming in today for a Q&A and then a workshop with our poetry competition winners. The library is ready, bring on the poet! #bedesreads #booksky #libraries #poetry
This afternoon we have mostly been putting a reading corner into Mr Betts' classroom... #bedesreads #booksky #libraries
22 titles in the pile, 20 of them are currently available to borrow from the school library. Not bad! #NotBannedHere #bedesreads
It's in the library, folks! #bedesreads
Such an on-the-money article. I find trying to get boys engaged with books tricky initially, but once you find them a book they enjoy, they fully engage, especially if it's a series. Publishers, please take note and put teen boys on your marketing radar! #booksky #libraries #bedesreads
Well worth taking a look at this! #bedesreads #booksky #libraries
The book cover of Glasgow Boys by Margaret McDonald
Currently reading this for student book group - just over halfway through and my heart is breaking for these boys, I want to scoop them up in the hugs they've never had enough of. 😢 I can spy hope for their futures, but who knows at this point, so on I read... #booksky #bookreviews #bedesreads
'Read the World' display on a big inboard. In the middle, a world map. Around it, images of book covers, each connected by a piece of string to the country the story is set in. Each book cover has the country's flag attached to the top left corner, and a banner with the country's name across the bottom right corner. The whole board has a yellow boarder and 'Read the World' is in big blue letters above the board, with the 'o' in 'world' substituted for a stylised round image of Earth.
New wall display in the library. If you can't afford to travel, read your way around the world instead! #bedesreads #booksky #libraries #librarylife
A display of YA fiction books, facing out, all with covers in shades of orange, yellow and red, each with a handwritten shelf-talker with a quick one-line synopsis of the story
Cheerful new display that purely by accident became colour-themed! #bedesreads #booksky #libraries #librarylife
A group of three students dance on a table as another student films them
Three students standing on a table, rehearsing a dance move, while three other students look on.
Three students on tables, one singing, one playing guitar, one playing drums, while another student films them. Two students and a teacher are watching.
Some A-Level Media students used the library to film a music video today, and one of the entourage even borrowed a book for the first time ever. This is a new and left-field way to get kids into the library and reading, and I am here for it! #whateverittakes #bedesreads #booksky #librarylife
Think I need to explore this one - so many rave reviews for it on here! #booksky #librarysky #bedesreads
Brilliant book! #librarysky #booksky #bedesreads
