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‘When life’s off track, put pen to paper and find your way back.’ Thanks to @AHicksonLovence for a brilliantly engaging author visit for Year 10 & 11 and an inspiring poetry workshop for Year 12 students! ✍️📚⚽️
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Today we welcomed our new Year 7 pupils to school for Transition Day and transported the library to the Catacombs of Paris to introduce our Summer Reading Challenge... @PiuDasGupta1 @NosyCrow @TheKingstonAca
TKA Library played host to the @sparkbookaward Final Award Ceremony yesterday, which was broadcast live on YouTube to 170 schools. Some of our pupils attended as the live studio audience and supplied some excellent drum rolls and applause! @TheKingstonAca
Year 7 & 8 enjoyed a brilliant author visit from @RavenaGuron on Monday. She spoke about her journey to becoming a writer via law school, her obsession with Agatha Christie, and she gave us some practical insight into the publishing industry. Thanks for a fascinating talk!
The KS3 book club created this fantastic display to celebrate David Attenborough & Colin Butfield's new book #Ocean. Thanks to @ReadingAgency & @Johnmurrays for sending us this beautiful book! @TheKingstonAca
We're voting for the @sparkbookaward this week and it's going to be a close call! Here's what our pupils thought of the books...
'Here to Slay' by @radhikasanghani slayed with the students: 'It is very nice as you can learn valuable life lessons from it.' 'I think this book has a good variety of characters and reminds me of other stories.' 'They are a team and love each other a lot and are very close.'
Thanks to the @readingagency & @johnmurrays
for this beautiful gifted copy of 'Ocean' by David Attenborough & Colin Butfield, with gorgeous full-colour photo inserts. I can't wait to show the book club on Monday! 💙 #Ocean @TheKingstonAca
Introducing Merlin - the library apprentice… 📚🐈⬛ 🧙♂️
(He’s grown so much in the last few weeks he doesn’t even look like his cardboard cutout anymore!)
Happy Pride Month! Here are just a few of the fantastic LGBTQ+ books available in our library… 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌈 @TheKingstonAca
The KS3 Book Club is excited to be reading and reviewing 'Fireborne' by Rosaria Munda for @_Reading_Rocks_ We love a dragon story! 🐉📚❤️ @TheKingstonAca
The final @sparkbookaward event took place last week with @AHicksonLovence author of the powerful verse novel, 'Wild East'. Ashley spoke about how the book was based on his own experience & how we can use our lives to inspire our writing. Thank you for a fantastic event, Ashley!
Here are some recommended reads for International Trans Day of Visibility 🏳️⚧️
#TransDayOfVisibility @TheKingstonAca
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On Monday our KS3 Book Club, with some other schools, heard @DeniseBrownUK talk about her thrilling murder mystery 'It all Started with a Lie' - shortlisted for the @sparkbookaward. We also got to ask her some questions about her writing process - thanks Denise! @hashtag_press
Our KS3 Book Club hosted the first @sparkbookaward online author visit on Monday with @radhikasanghani, the author of 'Here to Slay'. Radhika told us about her research, her inspiration and then read a short extract. We also had the opportunity to ask the author some questions!
It’s #PiDay today and here are some fantastic maths books to celebrate. Happy Pi Day! 🥧 @TheKingstonAca
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Every year, we run a bookmark design competition for World Book Day and the winners have their bookmarks professionally printed for the library. Congratulations to this year's winners, Aayush, Masha, Deniz & Jeremy, for their beautiful illustrations! @TheKingstonAca
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We're celebrating #WorldBookDay2025 today by sharing book extracts and spreading the joy of reading in every lesson throughout the day! We also had a record-breaking response to our costume competition from both pupils and staff... @TheKingstonAca
It’s Race Equality Week and here are some fantastic reads about how you can make a difference… #EveryActionCounts @TheKingstonAca
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On Wednesday our Year 7 & 8 pupils enjoyed a highly engaging and entertaining visit from @SophsWills, author of the Bite Risk series, including were-chinchillas, radioactive bananas and some classic werewolf special effects. Thank you, we had a fantastic time! 🐺 @TheKingstonAca
Our pupils were excited to announce the 11+ shortlist for the @sparkbookaward - what a great selection! @TheKingstonAca
We're thrilled to announce that the following brilliant books have been shortlisted in our 11+ Category:
#Spark2025Shortlist @rrouillard
@NateLessore @HotKeyBooks @DeniseBrownUK @hashtag_press @AHicksonLovence @PuffinBooks @radhikasanghani @_KnightsOf