John Smeaton Academy Library

JSA Library - a place full of Reading for Pleasure, creative competitions, and bookish magic. 🖥📖Head Librarian: Miss Edwards✨ #greatschoollibraries

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Yesterday marked Miss Edwards’ final day after four-and-a-bit wonderful years at JSA 🖤🥺

If you would like to stay in touch, you can via https://t.co/M1WIe1xcfn

Home Learning Club will be covered by Mrs Deane until our new Librarian is in place - stop by and say hi!

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Guess what …. It’s back! Our wonderful Book Vending Machine is stocked and ready for another term :)

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An exciting first month back in the JSA Library!
Our first @Browns_Books @educationgovuk box has arrived, giving students access to even more exciting materials.
We’ve also had a record breaking 612 books borrowed by students- amazing! #GoAllIn2026 #NationalYearofReading

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This week, JSA is proud to take part in the #GorseLiteraryFestival - a week of events aimed at celebrating reading, igniting imagination, and building confident readers. Students who take part in events will win special #GLF tokens - which can be exchanged for prizes next week.

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One week to go … #GORSELitFest

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Thank you @uksla - our students cannot wait to get reading and voting! #InformationBookAwards

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Happy half term to all our students 🖤 Miss Edwards is busy today preparing the library for your return, including preparing even MORE book review sheets and making some fun new bookmarks for you all to use. See you in November!

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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth 💙 this week’s Highlights section, selected by students, includes fiction, non-fiction, and graphic novels by @DavidOlusoga @GeorgeThePoet, @WCShearer, @salomeydraws, @akalamusic, and many more.

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We look forward to welcoming you at @SmeatonAcademy’s Open Evening tonight 🖤 find us in the English corridor!

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Tomorrow (26/09/2025) is European Day of Languages! 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇷🇮🇪🇮🇹🇵🇱🇷🇺🇪🇸🇺🇦🇬🇧

To celebrate, any student who borrows a book from our Highlights section will receive six stamps for their planner ⭐️

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Thank you to @ReadforGoodUK for their incredible book donation - our students have had great fun on their first day back at school deciding which to borrow first!

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We look forward to welcoming all our new and returning students tomorrow!

The library will be open before form for all students, during morning break for Y7 to Y9, during dinner break for Y10 and Y11, and after school for all.

[National Literacy Trust @Literacy_Trust]

Big news! 2026 has officially been announced as the National Year of Reading by @bphillipsonMP.

We’re proud to join @educationgovuk to lead this national campaign to get the UK reading again.

#NationalYearOfReading2026 https://t.co/JpKF0WOu6u

[Philip Howard @philiphowardbks]

@JsaLibrary @TrumanBooks @holdfastleeds Thank you! It was wonderful to be there

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… and the library even gained a new plant sibling! 🖤

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Last week, wonderful volunteers from @TrumanBooks, @philiphowardbks, & @holdfastleeds gave a series of fantastic talks and allowed our students to browse and buy from their stock.

Our students had a brilliant time speaking to our visitors and designing their own bookstores!

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Thank you to all of the very kind students who have donated their old books to the library this half term - Miss Edwards has been blown away by your kindness and generosity, and the other students are already looking forward to reading them!

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Thank you to the amazing @TshepoBrown3 and @Literacy_Trust for the #NationalPoetryDay2024 workshop they delivered on Tuesday! Our students loved seeing poetry in a different context, and challenging each other to find the most rhymes.

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@mrsbettysbooks @Literacy_Trust @AmazonUK Signed up for their World of Graphic Novels challenge and was successful in the book ballot! https://t.co/UukKlnmGAs

We adore the NLT and their challenges here - between them and Booktrust, we’ve been very lucky over the past few years with free events and resources!

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Thank you to @Literacy_Trust and @AmazonUK for their kind donation of these fantastic graphic novels and mangas! Our students are so excited to read them.