News and shenanigans from the world of books and reading at the @WimbledonHigh School Library. 📚 Tweets by Ms Toffoli. 📱
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One of our Teachers is reading "Eve" by Cat Bohannon this summer! Guess who? 🌿🔍
Join us in exploring the origins of humankind and discover the incredible journey of women through time. Let’s make this summer a season of knowledge and inspiration! 🌟
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ALT Eve / Cat Bohannon
Looking forward to welcoming @AnneKarpf on Thursday to discuss How Women Can Save The Planet!
"Anne Karpf shines a light on the radical ideas, compelling research and tireless campaigns, led by and for women around the world, that have inspired her to hope." - @HurstPublishers
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The @gdst book award shortlist is out! Which is your favourite?
#LoveReading #Year7WHS #Year8WHS #Year9WHS #GDSTBookAward #ExploreWHS
ALT GDST Book Award shortlist 2024
Come join us this week for #GreenLibrariesWeek!
Why not check out one of our themed books on display, or visit us during lunchtime to join one of our events?
#BorrowNotBuy #LibrariesWeek
ALT Green Libraries Week 2023
You have until Sunday to write a book review via the online library catalogue and enter a raffle to win a small #GreenLibrariesWeek prize!
Pick a themed book of your choice and get writing wimbledon.oliverasp.co.uk/li…
ALT Library Catalogue
#NewBookAlert 🌳🌱🪺 Interested in nature, ecology and the environment? 🌊🦀🦠 Come and borrow these brand new library books!
ALT New Books
As we welcome the Jewish New Year, may it be filled with sweet moments, joyful memories, and abundant success.
Wishing you a prosperous Rosh Hashanah 2023!
ALT Shana Tova Greetings
So happy to have donated books and given the opportunity to help children lose themselves in a story and discover the world 📚🌍💫
Thank you Alex and Clare from @lonbookproject for coordinating the donation 📦📦📦
ALT Certificate from The Children's Book Project.
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📣 The #SummerReadingChallenge ends on Sat 9 Sept. If your child hasn't completed the challenge yet, visit your local library so they can tell us about those final books. Completers will receive a medal & certificate & will be entered into the prize draw!
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📚📲 Don't forget! #SoraSweetReads is in full swing until August 28th! 📖 Dive into the collection of free, simultaneous-use middle grade and young adult ebooks and audiobooks.
🍬📚 Explore Sora Sweet Reads: soraapp.com/library/wimbledo… #SoraApp
ALT Sora Sweet Reads
Summer is a good time to do some reading around your subject and get ahead of the academic year ahead - or anyone else!
Come and borrow a few library books to peruse over the summer: wimbledon.oliverasp.co.uk/li…
☀️Happy reading!
#SixthWHS #ExploreWHS @HeadGirls_WHS @AcademicRep_WHS
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This #WindrushDay is the 75th anniversary of the Windrush voyage.
Today, we celebrate the rich heritage and contributions of this generation, and the challenges they still face. Use these empathy-rich stories to start conversations about the day with young people📚
#Windrush75
Congratulations @ManonSteffanRos 🥳
So deserved! The Blue Book of Nebo was my favourite title on the shortlist, loved it (and cried too)!
This #YotoCarnegies23 winner would make a great read for #Year7WHS students @English_WHS 📘
And the 2023 Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing goes to The Blue Book of Nebo! Congratulations @ManonSteffanRos @FireflyPress! #YotoCarnegies23
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2023 sees the 75th anniversary of the Empire Windrush arriving in Britain. Merton Heritage Service has compiled a series of online resources about the Windrush Generation and the important part played by the Caribbean community in shaping our borough.
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ALT Windrush Logo with text: Windrush 75 Celebrating the UK's dna
Congratulations to our brilliant reading team who came joint 6th place in the #NRCQuiz23 finals. Thank you @literacy_Trust @mrdillypresents we had a great day celebrating reading and amazing authors with you.
@WimbledonHigh @GDST
ALT WHS reading team at the #NRCQuiz23 finals.
Sunday is #MHDay2023 - check out titles from your senior library tinyurl.com/2jtzw7zn 🩸 if you'd like to learn more about menstruation. 📚 #WeAreCommitted #EndPeriodStigma
@mhday28may
ALT MHD
ALT The hormone diaries : the bloody truth about our periods / Hannah Witton
ALT It's only blood : shattering the taboo of menstruation / Anna Dahlqvist
Do pop over @Library_WHS if you'd like to borrow one of @alexbellos's books!
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#WHSLinguistica @MATHS_WHS
Can't wait for the #WHSLinguistica conference on 18 May! Keynote speaker @alexbellos & workshops on translation, invented languages, sign language & much more! It's going to be 精彩绝伦 🇧🇴fascinante مبهر faszinierend🇨🇮 eltur tìtxen si 🇦🇫захоплюючий 🇧🇷hynod ddiddorol चित्ताकर्षक
Check out new titles available from the senior library: tinyurl.com/2guaa7av 👀
Which one(s) will you borrow next? 📚
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Don't miss this, if you haven't signed up already 😀 #alumnaeWHS
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Congratulations to Barbara Kingsolver! 👏
@Sixth_WHS students and all staff: borrow the book for free from your school library 👉 soraapp.com/library/wimbledo… @WimbledonHigh @PulitzerPrizes @harperbooks
Fantastic to see Women's Prize winner Barbara Kingsolver awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for her #WomensPrize shortlisted novel Demon Copperhead 🎉
Huge congratulations Barbara!
