Spawforth Library at Merchiston Castle School. Tweets by Mrs Gibb 📚
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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?
📚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
✨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
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
🏆 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
🦄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
🌲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🐰
CONGRATULATIONS 👏✨📖 @tiafisher_
@BonnierBooks_UK @HotKeyBooks
#YotoCarnegies24 This book is spectacular!
✨CONGRATULATIONS @JosephACoelho
@OtterBarryBooks Winner of the Medal for Writing in the #YotoCarnegies24 We LOVED this book! 👏✨
✨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 🌈
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."
✨Our Spawforth Shadowers have loved reading and discussing the shortlisted #YotoCarnegies24 books and #TheDoorOfNoReturn by @kwamealexander in particular wowed our judges! ✨
📚We are delighted to be welcoming A.F. Steadman, author of Skandar and the Chaos Trials, back to Merchiston for an event on 1st May with our juniors and guests from local schools ✨
We can't wait to hear more about bloodthirsty unicorns! 🦄📖👏
#authorevent #mgbooks #reading
✨📖On 13th November the winner of the prestigious #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2023 will announced - and we think the judges will have a tough choice! Staff and students can come and speak to Mrs Gibb for more information on the shortlisted authors and to borrow these great books✨📖👏
🎃 Happy Halloween readers! 🌟
In The Spawforth Library we are treading the hallowed halls and reading the most atmospheric dark academia inspired novels.
What's your go-to genre this sbooky season? 👻
#DiscoverMerchiston #rfp #darkacademia #schoollibrary #halloweenreads
✨ Today we had the most magical morning with a visit from Cressida Cowell !✨Our juniors and guests from Longstone, Oxgangs, St.George’s, Compass and Cargilfield primary schools were captivated and inspired by Cressida and had a chance to meet her afterward too💫📚
