Library account for Sydenham High School GDST, an independent school offering a first-class education for girls aged 4-18.
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Sydenham High School GDST Library #fearnothing retweeted
12 Nov 2024
Just announced! Samantha Harvey wins the #BookerPrize2024 for Orbital, her deeply human saga of six astronauts in space, which combines an urgent message about the state of our planet with luminous hope and a refusal to sink into despair: waterstones.com/category/cul…
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Sydenham High School GDST Library #fearnothing retweeted
12 Nov 2024
My reading manifesto launched today for
#MichaelRosenDay
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We're SOOO excited to be welcoming Kiran Millwood Hargrave to @SydenhamHigh as part of her @GDST book tour. 😃Remember to pre-order books to guarantee a copy. @HachetteKids @KirkdaleBooks
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We're very excited to be participating in the GDST Book Award 2025 again this year - what a great list of titles for our students to read! #readingforpleasure @SydenhamHigh @HeadSydHigh
12 Nov 2024
We are excited to announce the GDST Book Award 2025 shortlist 👏
@ahoffmanwriter @scholasticuk @WelshDragonParr @KidsBloomsbury @RavenaGuron @simonschusterUK @ClareFurniss @Usborne @Sally_Nicholls @AndersenPress @GDST
Huge congratulations to all the authors and publishers!
ALT We are excited to announce the GDST Book Award 2025 shortlist 👏 Huge congratulations to all the shortlisted authors and publishers! Bravo! ❤️ When We Flew Away by @ahoffmanwriter @scholastic_uk ❤️ Fallout by @lesleyparr11 @bloomsburypublishing ❤️ The Things We Leave Behind by @clarefurnisswriter @simonschusteruk ❤️ Catch Your Death by @ravenaguron @usborneya ❤️ Yours From the Tower by @nicholls9417 @andersenpress #gdstbookawards2025 #readingforpleasure @gdstgirls @bhs_academy @bhsa_english @bhsa_juniors @belvedereacademy @shrewsburyhigh @sheffieldgirlsschool @nottmgirlshigh @northamptonhigh @newcastlehighschool @howellsschoolgdst @oxfordhighschoolgdst @royalhighschoolbath @northwoodcollege_gdst @nhehsgdst @nhehsjuniors @southhampsteadhighschool @kensingtonprepschool @putneyhighschool @wimbledonhighschoolgdst @schsgdst @blackheathhigh @sydenhamhighschool @suttonhighschool @suttonhighlibrary @norwichhigh @croydonhighschool @bromleyhighschoolgdst @portsmouthhighuk @brighton_girls @n
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Two more @AccReader Word Millionaires in Y7 today - well done to Willow and Zoe! #readingforpleasure @SydenhamHigh
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Congratulations to our new @AccReader Word Millionaires - Charlotte, Aiko and Anna I in Y8, and Safia in Y7! Over 32 million words read so far this year by Y7/8! 👏 #readingforpleasure @SydenhamHigh @HeadSydHigh
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Sydenham High School GDST Library #fearnothing retweeted
5 Nov 2024
Books help children make sense of the world, provide an escape from it and maybe even inspire them to build a better world, so I hope we act to help this young generation, who have borne so much, connect to the joy of reading - an "invisible privilege" that lasts for a lifetime.
5 Nov 2024
Report finds ‘shocking and dispiriting’ fall in children reading for pleasure theguardian.com/books/2024/n…
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Sydenham High School GDST Library #fearnothing retweeted
5 Nov 2024
A difficult read, but this section below is what makes me want to redouble my efforts to encourage reading for pleasure. Reading does all this for me. And more.
5 Nov 2024
Report finds ‘shocking and dispiriting’ fall in children reading for pleasure theguardian.com/books/2024/n…
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Sydenham High School GDST Library #fearnothing retweeted
5 Nov 2024
Report finds ‘shocking and dispiriting’ fall in children reading for pleasure theguardian.com/books/2024/n…
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Sydenham High School GDST Library #fearnothing retweeted
21 Oct 2024
Today, CILIP co-hosts a Parliamentary reception celebrating the positive impact of how #LibrariesChangeLives by Creating Opportunities. Thanks to Laurence Turner MP & 11 library sector organisations, the event connects policymakers & the library sector. cilip.org.uk/page/libraries-…
ALT Image of the Houses of Parliament with the Libraries Change Lives logo
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Well done Y7 and Y8 for passing 308 @AccReader book quizzes this half term - that's nearly 22 million words! And congratulations to our 3 Word Millionaires Helene, Ella and Anna R! 👏 'ReadingforPleasure @SydenhamHigh
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Sydenham High School GDST Library #fearnothing retweeted
15 Oct 2024
Delighted our paper on the need to widen professionals' repertoires of children's texts has reached nearly 4k readers! shorturl.at/aQHkv
Moving beyond our childhood canons matters! 📕📗 @jonnybid @WorldBookDayUK @Booktrust 📕📗 Read on find ways forward! @OpenUni_RfP
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Sydenham High School GDST Library #fearnothing retweeted
15 Oct 2024
A lovely surprise this morning. FOREST OF A THOUSAND EYES (my collaboration with award-winning illustrator Emily Gravett) is in the @guardian's roundup of the best new chapter books!
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Sydenham High School GDST Library #fearnothing retweeted
13 Oct 2024
Hotting up the publicity before the #mrloverman series, adapted by Nathaniel Price drops on @BBC 1 tomorrow at 9pm, but you can watch all eps back to back on @BBCiPlayer from then. I've written an essay in the Guardian about writing the novel @PenguinUKBooks, published 2013; AND it's the @guardian 'Pick of the Week for TV' ("A beautiful adapatation")!🙂 Also an interview with me in the Independent yesterday. @fablepicsuk STARRING Lennie James, Sharon D Clarke & Ariyon Bakare. Director: Hong Khaou. (Sorry, no comments, you can imagine why.)
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Sydenham High School GDST Library #fearnothing retweeted
10 Oct 2024
The Diverse Book Awards 2024 Winners! What a foursome!
#TheDBAwards
#thediversebookawards
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Our first jigsaw of the year completed today. 😀 #readingforpleasure #puzzle #brainpower @SydenhamHigh
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Sydenham High School GDST Library #fearnothing retweeted
21 Sep 2024
On 21 September 1937: J.R.R. #Tolkien's The Hobbit was published.
The book tells of a hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, and his journey with thirteen dwarves to recover their treasure from a dragon, Smaug. It's sold over 100 million copies as one of the best-selling books of all time
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Sydenham High School GDST Library #fearnothing retweeted
20 Sep 2024
FOREST OF A THOUSAND EYES, my latest collaboration with the brilliant Emily Gravett, was yesterday released into the wild! In fact, Forest _is_ the wild, and is coming after you with strangling vines, giant eagles, venomous deer and malign intent! Er... in a good way?
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