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June 2025: NEW S2 and first book talk of 2025 - 26 session:
June 2025: NEW S2 and first book talk of 2025 - 26 session:
Sail Away in a Story
Sail Away in a Story
We will have a bit of fun on our desert island during June
We will have a bit of fun on our desert island during June
Looking for a summer read? Look no further!
Looking for a summer read? Look no further!
All of these books will make us want to sail away in a story and be stranded on an island with a great book.
May 2025: Reading Reflections
May 2025: Reading Reflections
New S3 Top Reads for New S2
New S3 Top Reads for New S2
As we move towards the 2025 -26 timetable, it is time to reflect. 🤔💭
S2 pupils recently completed the library's Reading Reflection surveys.
S2 pupils - now S3 - recommended books for the new S2 cohort.
April 2025: Keep on Reading into S3
April 2025: Keep on Reading into S3
All about keeping on reading books and focusing on The Carnegie Medal shortlist.
All about keeping on reading books and focusing on The Carnegie Medal shortlist.
This book talk focuses on why you should keep reading into S3.
Reading for pleasure is so important for attainment, achievement, health and wellbeing, creativity and resilience and empathy.
March 2024: Thrills
March 2024: Thrills
Empathy: Thrillers are very emotional reads. Often, it can feel like you, as the reader, are on a roller-coaster. Slip between the pages of a well-written thriller and you'll forget all about everyday life... you will be so involved with the characters and be a part of their lives.
Excitement: Thriller books are also great for adding excitement to our lives.
Escape: this sums up most fiction reading, doesn't it? Losing yourself in a good thriller is perfect escapism from life, for a short while
You’ve probably binge-watched all the top thriller movies out now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and TV Catch-ups, but have you read the best thriller books of all time? For more ideas, see this list from Book Trust.
There's nothing like a book you just can't put down. These thrilling stories from Common Media will grab your attention until the final pages.
27 January marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. Every year on that day Holocaust Memorial Day takes place.
In the words of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, Holocaust Memorial Day encourages remembrance in a world scarred by genocide.
S2 book talks during January focus on a variety of novels and non-fiction books.
January 2025: it is great to see the books being borrowed and discussed and read.
January 2025: it is great to see the books being borrowed and discussed and read.
A touching and true story of Jewish children sent to safety in Lake Windermere in 1945.
This powerful book is the focus of our January S2 book talk.
Adam-2
Adam-2
I Am Wolf
I Am Wolf
Reek
Reek
December 2024: Sci-Fi
December 2024: Sci-Fi
Science fiction (often shortened to sci-fi or SF) is a kind of writing. Science fiction stories can be novels, movies, TV shows, comic books and other literature.
Writers often use SF to explain everyday questions or problems by putting them in the future. Usually they invent a very different world to help people notice important ideas.
Sharing these brilliant books
Sharing these brilliant books
What is Science Fiction?
What is Science Fiction?
SF is often about the future. It can be about imaginary new science and inventions such as spaceships, time machines, and robots. Science fiction stories are often in a world that is very different from the real world. They can have science and tools that do not exist in reality. Science fiction stories often take place on other worlds. There are often alien creatures.
Science fiction is different from fantasy. Fantasy stories often have magic and other things that do not exist and are not science. Isaac Asimov was a famous science fiction writer. He once said that science fiction is possible, but fantasy is not.
Check out other writers and books in the library.
Check out other writers and books in the library.
October: Horror - weeks beginning 21 and 28 October
October: Horror - weeks beginning 21 and 28 October
Sometimes a good scare is just the thing. These horror stories are deliciously spooky without being too terrifying -- perfect for an Autumn night by the fire! But it doesn't need to be Halloween time to enjoy these picks. These gripping tales full of zombies, urban myths, haunted towns and other supernatural scares will keep you turning pages late into the night. These well-written scary books provide delicious creepiness!
There are lots more horror-terrific books to choose and read in the library.
When everyone goes...."Ooh" and "Scary!"
When everyone goes...."Ooh" and "Scary!"
It has to be the Horror S2 book talk.
It has to be the Horror S2 book talk.
With lots of borrowing of the books and happy readers!
With lots of borrowing of the books and happy readers!
Sara
Sara
Ella
Ella
Roland
Roland
Piper, Jacob, Boyrs, Olivia and Mya borrowed their scary new reads.
Spooktacular books
Spooktacular books
November's S2 book talk is all about the powerful Noughts and Crosses series by Malorie Blackman. The first novel in this acclaimed series, of which there are now six, was written nearly two decades ago. Its story of star-crossed lovers though – a Romeo and Juliet-type story set in an alternative contemporary world in which Black people had been the colonisers and were now the ruling class dominant over white people – hasn’t aged. The book challenged perceptions of race in a way that hadn’t been done for a Young Adult audience before.
“When I came to Noughts and Crosses,” says Blackman, “what I found really interesting was some of the assumptions that my white friends had about black people etcetera,” says Blackman. And so, she thought: “Now how do I turn it on its head?”
“I didn’t read a book that featured a black protagonist until I was 21,” she says. It was a copy of The Color Purple by Alice Walker that she had picked up at an independent Black bookshop in Islington. Growing up in Clapham, south London, Blackman “lived down my local” (library, not pub). But as a young girl, she didn’t see herself in stories, which sounds painful to remember how. “I knew that the world that I absolutely adored, the world of literature, I was invisible in and excluded from,” she says, adding: “It’s gotten better. We’re not there yet though.”
Included in this book talk are Malorie’s books Chasing The Stars, Noble Conflict and Boys Don’t Cry.
We will also talk about about the episode that Malorie wrote for Doctor Who, called Rosa and was all about real-life Civil Rights icon Rosa Parks. This episode won prize at the Visionary Honours Awards, with this joint-penned episode with Chris Chibnall. Rosa was honoured for making “a positive social impact”.
“I’ve always loved Doctor Who. Getting the chance to write for this series has definitely been a dream come true,” said Blackman.
Sophie and Evie are looking forward to reading all about Sephy and Callum
Sophie and Evie are looking forward to reading all about Sephy and Callum
The Noughts and Crosses series is hugely popular with pupils.
"Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while."
"Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while."
Samuel, Helena and Aaliyah are looking forward to reading their new books
Samuel, Helena and Aaliyah are looking forward to reading their new books
S3 recommendations for S2
S3 recommendations for S2
S3 pupils were recently asked to recommend favourite reads for S2 pupils.
Some are here on the poster and more recommendations are on display in the library.
These are some of the books recommended by new S3 pupils for the new S2 cohort.
These will be shared with the S2 classes during the June book talks.
All of the books are available to borrow from the library.
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