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The 2025 #ReadforEmpathy collection is here!
💫 A new list of 70 books for 3-16 year olds, selected by experts to help understand and build empathy. Use the gorgeous new guides in your setting! Which is your favourite on the list?
Download FREE right now
empathylab.uk/RFE
The LRC Team would like to wish students and staff a wonderful festive break and new year.
We will see you in 2025.
Online services will be available during this time.
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You can email library@kirkleescollege.ac.uk and we will respond when we return. 🎄
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We are now starting to wrap up for Christmas. The LRCs will close for the holidays on Thursday 19th December at 4.45pm. Only online services will be available. Please plan ahead and ensure you have any physical resources you may need to continue your studies during the break. 🎄
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Santa Paws is coming to town!
We are looking forward to welcoming @PetsAsTherapyUK for a festive vist.
Join us in the @kirkleescollege LRCs
Monday 16th December
Huddersfield LRC
1-2pm
and
Tuesday 17th December
Springfield LRC
1-2pm
🐶🎄🐶🎄
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Christmas season is here! 🎄
Cosy on down with some seasonal festive fiction. 🎄
Head to Huddersfield and Springfield LRCs to browse our festive displays or click and collect from our online catalogue. 🎄
We have something available for everyone...
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In October Dr Andy Cope aka Dr of Happiness, attended the KC staff training day as a key note speaker. Andy specialises in positive psychology and the science of human flourishing. A selection of his books are now available to borrow from the LRCs.
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#BookoftheWeek
A stunning retelling of one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written. Illustrated beautifully by Chris Mould, a graphic novel inspired by the H.G. Wells classic War of the Worlds.
Available to click and collect from the LRCs 📚
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♟️Are you interested in playing or learning how to play Chess?
Join the Student Chess Club, all welcome, no sign up needed, just turn up and play.
Every Monday
11am-1pm
Huddersfield Centre LRC Level 1♟️
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The LRC team would like to welcome back new and returning students and staff. We hope you have had a fantastic summer and ready for the brand new academic year. As always the LRC staff are here to help and support you, please come and talk to us. We look forward to seeing you. 😀
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We would like to wish you a happy, safe and hopefully sunny summer holiday.
The LRCs are now closed for the break but you can email us if you have any queries on library@kirkleescollege.ac.uk
We look forward to welcoming new and returning students and staff in September. ☀️😃☀️
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Congratulations to the 2024 winners of the @CarnegieMedals ! Such worthy winners 🌟
You can borrow and read these award winning books plus the shortlisted runners up from our LRCs....👏
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🎉 Congratulations to the 2024 Winners of the Yoto Carnegie Medals for Writing and Illustration, and Shadowers' Choice Medals @CarnegieMedals: @StoryBreathing, @JospehACoelho and @tiafisher_! #YotoCarnegies24
Read the press release: yotocarnegies.co.uk/2024-win…
ALT Image of The Boy Lost in the Maze, The Tree and the River and Crossing the Line, the 2024 Yoto Carnegie winners
We are supporting @RefugeeWeek
The theme this year is “Our Home”. Places we gather to share meals to our collective home, planet earth: everyone is invited to celebrate what our Our Home means to them. Our refugee display is all about making a new home.
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Foundation Rose Group at Springfield Centre took part in Carnegie Medals Illustration Shadowing. They debated, discussed, made bowers and masks and voted for their group favorite. Find out who has won the Shadows' Choice Awards at the official ceremony on 20th June in London.
Summer borrowing now available.
Staff and students returning in September can borrow resources over the Summer Break.
If you are looking for a few summer reads, a perfect beach read or a relaxing in the garden read.
Check out our fantastic fiction 📚🌞📚webopac.kirkleescollege.ac.u…
Proud to be supporting and shouting about #PrideMonth2024
Our LRCs offer a safe space within college where all students are welcome to come and be themselves. Come and see what we have to offer for the LGBT community not just this month but everyday through the academic year 📢🌈
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#FantasticFictionFriday
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams has now been adapted into a TV series.
Queenie is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman who straddles two cultures but slots neatly into neither.
Read the book that inspired the show...
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Can you take on the #ReadforEmpathy reading challenge? How many have you read ? How many will you read ? All of the books on the list are available from Huddersfield and Springfield LRCs and you can collect a form to keep track of your progress 📚✅🩷
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We are supporting @EmpathyLabUK ! Today is the day to celebrate empathy's power to drive social change. Check out our #EmpathyDay collection in the LRC and step into someone elses shoes, feel the power of living a life of someone else for a short time.🦸♀️📚
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