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The goings on of our busy Great Academy Ashton library.

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Shakespeare week in the library 🪶 📖 ✍️ @GAAshton_news

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Some great progress at crochet club this term! @GAAshton_news

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More Reg and Read book prep! So many of our forms have already read and enjoyed an entire novel this academic year 📖 @GAAshton_news

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Congratulations to our first recipient of a book review badge! Give great reviews completed. Now to aim for 15 and a silver badge 🥉@GAAshton_news

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Some fab new additions to our graphic novel collection! @gaa_history @GAAshton_news

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We held a spooky spoken word event yesterday. Our students showcased all of the GREAT values and their preparation and confidence was outstanding. They read their poems and short stories aloud and the audience celebrated their impressive oracy skills. Well done! @GAAshton_news

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Fun at murder mystery club tonight! @GAAshton_news

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All set up for the book fair! @Scholastic @GAAshton_news

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Our students have been making LOTS of requests lately! Can’t wait to get these added to the catalogue and in their hands 😊📚 @GAAshton_news

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Some of the comments our students have left so far when tracking their reading for our @ReadforGoodUK Readathon! @GAAshton_news

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Some great new Fighting Fantasy books have arrived for our students to play at break and lunch. These are fantastic for oracy skills, critical thinking and just having fun 😊 @GAAshton_news

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We launched our Y7 Readathon on Friday. Over the weekend, our amazing Y7 students have already beat the target for the whole week! We'll up our target and can't wait to see what we achieve by Sunday📚 @ReadforGoodUK @GAAshton_news

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Well done to our raffle winners! Thanks so all our staff and students for taking part, we raised over £100 for new library books 😊 @GAAshton_news

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New stock! All added to our catalogue and ready for our Student Librarians to shelve at lunch time 😊 @GAAshton_news

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All set up for our raffle this week! 3 baskets up for grabs, filled with books, United goodies and sweet treats. £1 to enter and all the money raised goes towards new books for our library 📖 @GAAshton_news

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We had a prize draw this week in the library! All book borrowers were in with a chance of winning one of 2 goodie bags! We drew the names at the end of lunch today, congrats to our two Y7 avid readers who won! They got 3 books and some sweet treats 😊🥳 @GAAshton_news

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Some of our students use social media for their book recommendations, so we’ve showcased some of the more popular choices 😊📖 @GAAshton_news

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Lots of new books added to our shelves! All chosen by our students. Thanks again to @sdowdtrust for our grant.

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Great new additions to our catalogue! These books all feature characters who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community 🏳️‍🌈

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17 loans during form time! 8M visited the library today and definitely made the most of it 😊 @GAAshton_news