Spawforth Library at Merchiston Castle School. Tweets by Mrs Gibb 📚
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7 Jan 2025
🏆 We are delighted to announce that @scottishbktrust have awarded us the GOLD level #readingchools accreditation for our commitment to building and maintaining a reading culture at Merchiston Castle School 👏🎉📚🥇#readingforpleasure #weareareadingschool
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5 Jun 2025
It's our Reading Leaders' turn to #ReadWithPride !🌈
We love a great dystopian novel and The Last Bookstore on Earth by Lily Braun-Arnold is one of the BEST we've read!✨Highly recommended✨
Next up: what will @ArmAcadLib and @EdgbarrowSchool be reading tomorrow?
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Merchiston Library retweeted
4 Jun 2025
Our fabulous Wellbeing Practitioner Mrs Mason knows the power of reading. For #ReadWithPride she recommends #WhatIfItsUs, a quirky romcom about facing up to past & future. @MerchiLibrary, what will you read tomorrow? @AdamSilvera @beckyalbertalli @simonkids_uk @ReadWithPrideUK
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19 Mar 2025
Great titles including some Spawforth Library favourites in @The_UKLA 2025 awards shortlist 👏📚✨
It's here... The UKLA Book Awards 2025 Shortlist is now live! With so many powerful titles, this year's selection truly highlights the best of contemporary children's writing! Find out more here: buff.ly/vDROWpi
#childrensbookawards #bookawards
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19 Mar 2025
📚We are incredibly proud of our brilliant team of expert readers who won the NE/E/SE Scotland regional heat of the @Literacy_Trust National Reading Champions Quiz👏The boys will be heading to London in May to battle it out in the grand final🏆
#NRCQuiz2025 #rfp #readingschools
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11 Mar 2025
✨👏 Congratulations all shortlisted authors and illustrators - our Spawforth Shadowers are looking forward to reading, discussing and judging the books📖✨ #carnegies2025 #rfp #bookawards
11 Mar 2025
We are proud to share the #Carnegies2025 shortlists, that were revealed this afternoon at @londonbookfair 📖✨ Congratulations to the wonderful authors and illustrators who brought these exceptional stories to life. 💫 Read the full announcement: 🔗 carnegies.co.uk/2025-shortli…
ALT Graphic with the Carnegies logo. Text reads: 'Shortlists announced'.
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19 Feb 2025
✨Congratulations to all longlisted authors and illustrators! 👏 These titles include book group choices and some of our most borrowed books in the Spawforth Library📚
#carnegies2025 #rfp #readingschools #readinginschool #bookawards
12 Feb 2025
It is finally time! We are excited to reveal the longlists for the 2025 Carnegie Medals for Writing and Illustration. 🎉 Congratulations to the wonderful authors and illustrators longlisted for the #Carnegies2025! 🖌️📖✨
View the full list here: carnegies.co.uk/2025-longlis…
ALT Text reading 'longlists are announced' with the Carnegies logo, website carnegies.co.uk and #Carnegies2025
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Merchiston Library retweeted
13 Feb 2025
🥇We are delighted to announce that Merchiston has become the first Independent School in Edinburgh to achieve Gold in the @scottishbktrust 's Reading Schools Programme. 🥇
Find out more about the award here 👉 ow.ly/zcNb50UYAtG
@MerchiLibrary
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10 Oct 2024
🦄The most requested book in recent times is here.. Skandar and the Skeleton Curse is out today & copies snapped up by our eager readers. Congratulations @annabelwriter on another great book! #RfP #readinginschool #thebestbooks #skandar #mg #teenreads #schoollibrary #BookTwitter
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7 Oct 2024
🌲Today our Forest Juniors and friends invited from local schools were treated to a superb interactive storytime with @louisewannier and her book Tree Spirits🌳We've been inspired to use our imagination and look for creatures in the patterns and textures on the trees around us🐰
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Merchiston Library retweeted
9 Sep 2024
👋 Welcome to our new Prefects for 2024/25 👇
Our Prefect teams have a major role to play in terms of helping to run and manage aspects of the houses and departments, as well as helping to set the tone and ethos of the school through their day to day example.
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20 Jun 2024
🍃✨ WOW! ✨🍃
We cannot wait for this @annabelwriter ! 👏
20 Jun 2024
🍃COVER REVEAL🍃 Unicorn riders face their greatest fears in SKANDAR AND THE SKELETON CURSE coming October 2024…
Cover design by the earth-shatteringly brilliant @simonkids_UK & illustrated by extraordinary @twodots_studio 💚 I hope you love it as much as I do!
Pre-order now!
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20 Jun 2024
CONGRATULATIONS 👏✨📖 @tiafisher_
@BonnierBooks_UK @HotKeyBooks
#YotoCarnegies24 This book is spectacular!
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20 Jun 2024
✨CONGRATULATIONS @JosephACoelho
@OtterBarryBooks Winner of the Medal for Writing in the #YotoCarnegies24 We LOVED this book! 👏✨
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10 Jun 2024
✨This book continues to wow our readers, Kwame in III form says 'this book made me laugh, be on the edge of my seat in suspense and it made me cry' 'I knew Kwame Alexander would represent Ghana well' 👏👍
@kwamealexander @CarnegieMedals
6 Jun 2024
✨Our Spawforth Shadowers have loved reading and discussing the shortlisted #YotoCarnegies24 books and #TheDoorOfNoReturn by @kwamealexander in particular wowed our judges! ✨
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7 Jun 2024
✨This #PrideMonth The Reading Leadership Team @MerchiNews have been reading the brilliant twisty mystery How to Die Famous by @NotAgainBen ✨ What are you reading @PriorySch @ToynbeeSchool and @LibraryGts ? Let's #ReadWithPride 🌈
1 Jun 2024
Every weekday this #PrideMonth, libraries celebrate the #LGBTQ young adult fiction that we #ReadWithPride. Share your favourites and follow our relay of UK schools recommending great queer stories!
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️📚#Pride2024 First up: @LatymerUpper @DRHS_LRC @SydHighLibrary
ALT Text: "#ReadWithPride2024" Image: Outline of a book with the coloured stripes of a pride flag Text: "Join our 2024 Pride Month celebration of LGBTQ YA fiction! Follow our social media relay of schools across the UK recommending favourite queer reads, and share your own favourites with the #ReadWithPride hashtag."
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6 Jun 2024
✨Our Spawforth Shadowers have loved reading and discussing the shortlisted #YotoCarnegies24 books and #TheDoorOfNoReturn by @kwamealexander in particular wowed our judges! ✨
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Merchiston Library retweeted
1 Jun 2024
Every weekday this #PrideMonth, libraries celebrate the #LGBTQ young adult fiction that we #ReadWithPride. Share your favourites and follow our relay of UK schools recommending great queer stories!
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️📚#Pride2024 First up: @LatymerUpper @DRHS_LRC @SydHighLibrary
ALT Text: "#ReadWithPride2024" Image: Outline of a book with the coloured stripes of a pride flag Text: "Join our 2024 Pride Month celebration of LGBTQ YA fiction! Follow our social media relay of schools across the UK recommending favourite queer reads, and share your own favourites with the #ReadWithPride hashtag."
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Merchiston Library retweeted
1 Jun 2024
This year's relay schools include: @BeauLibrary @RGSGLibrary @DuffieldLibrary @ChancellorsLib1 @Alleyns_Library @IPSLIB @ManHighGirls @stourporthighschool @DulwichCollege @GuildfordCounty @MerchiLibrary @PriorySch @ToynbeeSchool @LibraryGts @morton_lrc @LibrarySps @CharltonSch
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Merchiston Library retweeted
2 May 2024
We were delighted to welcome @annabelwriter to Merchiston on Wednesday. Ms Steadman is the best-selling author of the #Skandar series. The boys were so excited to talk to her and had lots of questions. @MerchiLibrary - Thank you to Ms Gibb for organising. #reading #inspiration
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