Karen Conlon

School Librarian at independent school for girls aged 3 to 16 in North London

[Karen Conlon @liblad]

The @PGHSGirls just loved making these miniature books to display in our little library- of course now they want to add sone furniture! #myminiaturelibrary 🩷📚

[Karen Conlon @liblad]

No sooner are the displays put up than it’s almost time to break up! With thanks to the wonderful librarians that post their displays and provide inspiration! #bookcoverchristmastree #12booksofchristmas 🎄📚

[Karen Conlon @liblad]

@lauramucha @lisa_letters Oh that’s so strange - don’t know why it keeps happening! Are we ok to promote the poem? Have pupils read it out? What do you think?

[Karen Conlon @liblad]

It’s been a busy half term - so ready for our 2 week break!! We had a wonderful visit from the lovely @lisa_letters have hopefully broken a #guinnessworldrecord with @lauramucha on #nationalpoetryday and have just picked our school favourite in the #slaiba 8-12 age group!

[Karen Conlon @liblad]

@clpe1 @littlerebsprize 🏆

[Karen Conlon @liblad]

@clpe1 @TomPercivalsays @simonschuster 👟

[Karen Conlon @liblad]

So excited to hear the news that the wonderful @frankcottrell_b is the next #waterstoneschildrenslaureate
First WBD assembly I gave, I read an extract from Cosmic, when Liam gets mistaken for a teacher and has to introduce himself to the school! Never had so many book requests!

[BookTrust @Booktrust]

We were thrilled to get the inside scoop on what it’s like to be the brand new Waterstones #ChildrensLaureate from @frankcottrell_b!

[Karen Conlon @liblad]

@antheadavey @officialronnies How lovely! Such a special night for her!

[Karen Conlon @liblad]

Such a delight having @cowfishdreams visit us at @PGHSGirls this morning! We all loved hearing about Michael and as for those little origami dachshunds…🥰🐾🐾

[Palmers Green High @PGHSGirls]

Today it was a pleasure to welcome the children’s author, Terrie Chilvers (@cowfishdreams) to PGHS. She ran inspiring workshops with our Year 3&4 classes and read her debut book ‘Michael The Amazing Mind-Reading Sausage Dog’ to them.

[Karen Conlon @liblad]

Great to see our girls engage with some of the issues facing young people today and start to think more about how our country is run - big thank you to the ever engaging @campbellclaret !

[Palmers Green High @PGHSGirls]

This morning, Years 6-10 attended a live Zoom event with writer, podcaster and strategist, @campbellclaret. Alastair was a powerful and enthusiastic speaker who talked about how the country is run, and answered many interesting questions from our pupils.

[Karen Conlon @liblad]

@childrensbkshop @thebookseller Huge congratulations and so very well deserved!!

[Karen Conlon @liblad]

@TimesRadio @StigAbell having been dead against air fryers I caught the end of Jamie Oliver and his baked Alaska- it made me decide I must go and get one! Delicious!! How can you all be so against it ?!

[Karen Conlon @liblad]

@BookSpace loving our little ‘Me-to-You’ book review shelf labels! Our @PGHSGirls Y6 Reading Ambassadors have started the first 2 and hoping more will follow!

[Karen Conlon @liblad]

@PotteryThrow @siobhni @richmillerpots @KBJWhitstable Well done Donna!

[Karen Conlon @liblad]

Fun activities in the library to celebrate #WorldBookDay2024 Huge thanks to the #schoollibrarians that share so many good ideas for us all to use and adapt #guessthebookinajar #nationalbooktokensadaptedbookquiz

[Karen Conlon @liblad]

Happy #WorldBookDay2024 - what an amazing day we had with @pond_dipper - the wonderful and very hard working Michael Holland! Too many sessions to count making beautiful creations with leaves, seeds, plants, ink & clay!

[Karen Conlon @liblad]

So, not kept up with posting for while but it’s @WorldBookDayUK and we’ve been busy so feel I should! Started week with a wonderful visit from @JoyceEfia talking about her debut novel #howfarwevecome Also ran 3 inspirational workshops for Y9,10 &11!

[Karen Conlon @liblad]

@DraytonHeating All sorted now, thank you for your response

[Karen Conlon @liblad]

@DraytonHeating we’ve had a Vaillant engineer in on Friday to fix an error on our very new boiler. That evening the link between our Drayton lifestyle thermostat seems to have broken - although working it did not turn off heating? Should we get engineer back?

[Karen Conlon @liblad]

Not sure we could possibly win again 😂but these do look amazing and I know the @PGHSGirls would love to see them in our library!

[WRDaboutbooks @WRDmag]

We have 3 INCREDIBLE sets of the NEW chunky #Factology hardback books to WIN on #Romans #RobotsAndAI & #Dinosaurs
Fabulous brain stretchers, loved by 8yrs+ for their gorgeous lively infographic spreads 😍bursting with facts!
To enter RT/Flw by Feb 2
@GMCbooks
#WRDMagComp #NonFic