A Selection of Halloween Howlers @Sandym0untPark 🎃📚👓👻🦡

Displays were created🖼, presentations were made 🎤 & votes were cast 🗳by our Junior Jurors at their Book Fair today as part of the search for some of Ireland’s most impactful reads of the year📚 @KidsBooksIrel shortlisted books gets our Badger of Approval! 🏅👏@Sandym0untPark

Legend has it there is a badger who calls the Sandymount area home 🦡 so our Junior Book Club thought we should make this resident of our local ecosystem our very own Library Mascot☺️🪵📚🌿Introducing Bernie the Badger to @Sandym0untPark

It’s a Bingo!!!🎯This group of students from 1st-3rd Year are the first to complete our Book Bingo Reading Challenge ☺️🙌 Lots to celebrate for these Reading Heroes 🎊🦸‍♂️👏@Sandym0untPark

Yesterday, our Junior Jurors received a visit from Jack, a KPMG Children’s Books Ireland volunteer 📖 A great opportunity to discuss their ongoing reflections of the shortlisted books and get creative producing awesome book covers🖍🎨 @Sandym0untPark @KidsBooksIrel

The new Junior Jurors🧑‍⚖️of @Sandym0untPark are thrilled to be reflecting and reviewing KPMG Children’s Book Awards’ shortlisted choices where they’ll help decide the winner of Ireland’s Junior Juror Award 📖📚📙

@Sandym0untPark staff and students enjoyed a DEAR hour this morning while taking part in Ireland Reads where we also launched our World Book Day Celebrations🌎🎉📚Fantastic whole-school response in introducing our brand new Book Bingo✨ #SqueezeInARead #IrelandReads #WorldBookDay

We @Sandym0untPark, would also like to say a BIG THANK YOU 🙌😊 to all who contributed to our library resource fund & all those in our school community who donated books this week⭐️ Our book donation box proved a little small for the great response we received 😄 Thank you!

Our librarians did a terrific job in celebrating literary festivities @Sandym0untPark this morning 🎄📚✨On offer were student-made bookmarks, a book trivia quiz, prizes to be won & personalised winter warmer reading recommendations specially delivered in Christmas cards 🛷🍫🧑‍🎄☃️

Another shout out goes to our very own published podcasters🙌 -Zoe, Shawn and Daniel, who worked with @FightingWordsIE to create a very insightful listening piece which is available on their website 🏅🎧🥳@Sandym0untPark Congrats all!☺️

Congratulations 🎊🎉👏to the class of 2A who became published writers ✍️with the submission of their short story, “The Lobster Plot”🦞to @FightingWordsIE. Copies of this book are pride of place in our library for all to enjoy 😊📚 @Sandym0untPark