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King's Worcester Library @KSWLibrary

The official library account for The King’s School, Worcester| Follow @kingsworcester for the latest #KingsNews | #ShapedByKings

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We are all set to welcome our Foundation Y6 pupils @KingsStAlbans @KingsHawford with ‘Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner’, some book title based games, and a scavenger hunt! #BigKings
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Author John Boyne @johnboyne signing a copy of #Fire for the School Library ; 3rd title in his new quartet of novels. Thankyou @RossiterBooks for hosting such an engaging event in Malvern. Fascinating stuff - from catharsis and authenticity to not 'staying in your lane'📚
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King's Worcester Library retweeted
The Booker Prizes@TheBookerPrizes
12 Nov 2024
‘Sometimes you encounter a book and cannot work out how this miraculous event has happened’ We're delighted to announce that the winner of the #BookerPrize2024 is Orbital by Samantha Harvey. 🌌✨ Discover the book: thebookerprizes.com/the-book…
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Starting today, we have four busy days in school with activities and events marking #AntiBullyingWeek In the Library we have a packed display and a brand new Anti-Bullying reading list! #ChooseRespect @AntilbullyingAll @ABAonline
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Library display with anti-bullying resources

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The wait is over! Tonight George Capell OV (& son of our Assistant Librarian) will appear on #UniversityChallenge with his St Andrews teammates when they take on Cardiff at 8:30 pm BBC 2. Good luck George - we are so proud & excited! #ShapedByKings (particularly the Library 📚😊)
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A selection of our favourite spook-tacular books for Halloween! 🎃 🧙‍♀️ 🦇 👻 🎃
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Happy #WorldMentalHealthDay - particularly to those of us privileged to have a school (and even better - a school library 📚) as our workplace!
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Y8 WRAITH (Library Book Club) off to the strongest of starts - delicious goodies baked by Katie and Amelia, and a choice of 3 fantasy future classics (Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell, Tyger @whatSFSaid & Skandar and the Unicorn Thief @annabelwriter) We even had napkins!
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We are underway with #Bookbuzz! It's always a pleasure to start the school year with this activity for our Y7s. L4C were beautifully engaged with their 'speed-dating' session - all choosing a book to keep from the excellent titles selected by @Booktrust #WeLoveReadingForPleasure
Pupils in the Library for a reading activity

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King's Worcester Library retweeted
The YA Book Prize@yabookprize
13 Jun 2024
We are SO excited to reveal our incredible #YABookPrize shortlist 🤩 “This year’s shortlist truly encapsulates the joy of Young Adult fiction and the astounding talent here in the UK and Ireland." See the thread below to meet our shortlist 👇
The stack of the 10 YA Book Prize shortlisted books on a white backdrop with red, blue and yellow shapes surrounding the border and the blue YA Book Prize logo.

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What a pleasure to meet the @KingsStAlbans Y6 pupils and to be able to give them a taster of what the Senior School Library has to offer when they join us in September. Really delightful pupils who thoroughly engaged with our reading for pleasure activities! 📚
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What a perfect morning in the Library with three Y7&8 classes visiting to choose books for the 'Genre discovery' reading challenge. L4B & L4D stayed on, resulting in delightful clusters of children reading throughout the Library. My idea of Heaven! #WeLoveReading 📚
Children reading in the Library

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What a perfect morning in the Library with three Y7&8 classes visiting to choose books for the 'Genre discovery' Reading Challenge. L4B & L4D stayed on, resulting in delightful clusters of children reading throughout the Library. My idea of Heaven! #WeLoveReading 📚

ALT What a perfect morning in the Library with three Y7&8 classes visiting to choose books for the 'Genre discovery' Reading Challenge. L4B & L4D stayed on, resulting in delightful clusters of children reading throughout the Library. My idea of Heaven! #WeLoveReading 📚

Children reading in the Library

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At last night's Nibbies (The British Book Awards), the superlatively talented Katherine Rundell was the recipient of both Book of the Year (the first time in 6 years that a children's writer has picked up the accolade) AND Author of the Year for Impossible Creatures! 🏆📖
The Bookseller
@thebookseller
13 May 2024
Katherine Rundell takes home Book of the Year: Children's Fiction (supported by @theweekjunior) for IMPOSSIBLE CREATURES. @KidsBloomsbury's no-holds-barred campaign positioned Impossible Creatures as “the book of Rundell’s career”. #Nibbies #BritishBookAwards
Impossible Creatures stood upright on a mirrored table next to the golden Nibbie trophy in front of a plant, in white text reads: winner, Book of the Year Children's Fiction

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It's #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek and this is our new display in response to the 2024 theme ‘Movement: Moving more for our mental health’. For some great tips to help us get the mental health benefits of movement visit mentalhealth.org.uk/movement… #MomentsForMovement
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King's Worcester Library retweeted
Mental Health Foundation@mentalhealth
13 May 2024
Our new playlist of music to get you moving is now available to download on Spotify! 🎵🎉 Thanks to @edibow for all the help. 💜 Don't forget to share your #MomentsForMovement. Download the playlist: bit.ly/4a5LXzT #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
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King's Worcester Library retweeted
BookTrust
@Booktrust
10 May 2024
"If children are to make sense of the past, it’s hugely important to tackle it and to have a wide selection of stories to help them." Here, author @jasinbath recommends books about British history which explore unseen characters and their stories: booktrust.org.uk/news-and-fe…
A photo of Jasbinder Bilan and the front covers of Stolen History, Cane Warriors, Nush and the Stolen Emerald, Diver's Daughter, Journey to Jo'burg, When Secrets Set Sail, Where the Heart Should Be, Windrush Child, and Meanwhile Back on Earth

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What a fantastic shortlist - and perfect timing, as we are currently reading three of these in our Library book clubs!
Branford Boase Award@BranfordBoase
25 Apr 2024
The year's outstanding debut novels for children/young people - it's the shortlist for the #BranfordBoaseAward 2024. Congratulations to these talented new authors and to the editors who have supported and nurtured them. branfordboaseaward.org.uk/sh…
Graphic for the six books on the Branford Boase Award shortlist with supporter logos Walker Books and ALCS

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We launched a 'Genre discovery' Reading Challenge on World Book Day 7th March. Y8 pupils Zofia, Henry, and Stella had completed the 12 categories less than three weeks later, whilst Y7 Penny and Amelia completed theirs over the Easter break! Wonderful reading role models all!📚
Pupils in the Library having completed their Reading Challenge

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Pupils in the Library having completed their Reading Challenge

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A fantastic win - from a superb shortlist. We are reading the Older Readers list with our Y9 Book club. Over half (8 out of 17) of the pupils selected Thieves' Gambit as their choice, and are very excited about reading it. Congratulations @KayvionLewis !
Simon YA
@simonYAbooks
21 Mar 2024
We are delighted to announce that Thieves' Gambit by @KayvionLewis has been crowned Best Book for Older Readers at the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2024! 🥳
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Just getting my breath back after issuing over forty books to these wonderful children from L4C and L4D (Y7 classes) - their 2024 Genre Discovery Reading Challenge is well and truly underway! 📚#ReadingChallenge #WeLoveReadingForPleasure
Year 7 children with books in the Library

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