Open Book

Twitter account for the school library at Open Academy, Norwich.
Talking about the books we love and sharing library news and events. 📚

[Open Book @library_oa]

The votes have been tallied. The results are in. Our Battle of the Books winner is 🥁...
Demon Slayer 😈

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What a tense afternoon with the finals of our Chess Tournament! Well done to all the competitors, and particularly Ethan (3rd Place), Noam (2nd place) and our 1st place winner Areen! ♟️@OAOpenAcademy

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Last 2 books left in our GN & Manga Battle of the Books. Who will come out top? 🥊📖🏆

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Just updated our 'What Your Librarian Has Been Reading' display with April's reads. We'd love to know what you have been reading this month & what bank holiday reading you've got lined up? 📚

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Booky badges being made at lunch today!

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Last book club of the term, reviewing our Fantasy & Sci-Fi reads, top trumps style. We ranked story, heroism, villainy, magical/ scientific elements, world building and gave an overall rating. A great selection of books being shared too! @OAOpenAcademy

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Our Year 8 top readers enjoyed hearing from a great selection of authors today at the Norwich School, Norfolk Book Festival. BREIS was a huge hit! @OAOpenAcademy

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View from the library. The perfect spot to spend break and read a book! @OAOpenAcademy

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Finally, we were really impressed with one particular student who went above and beyond designing the OLC door. Congrats to Frazer who has won the individual prize for his Alice in Wonderland door!

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It has been an incredible tough afternoon judging our @WorldBookDayUK Door Decorating competition. Well done to all who got involved and onto the winners....@OAOpenAcademy

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The upper school prize goes to 12JTY for their Alice in Wonderland door. A fantastic design that captures the book beautifully!

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Well done to all the teams who took part in your Big Booky Quiz today! It was a close competition with a tie-breaker needed in both the Y8/9 and Y7 heats. Well done to the winning teams :) @OAOpenAcademy @WorldBookDayUK

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Then we ended the day reading the final part of our whole school read of Lamb to the Slaughter with year 8 and running a mock trial. What a great day with more planned for tomorrow!

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Happy @WorldBookDayUK ! Started the day with year 7 enjoying the @Literacy_Trust Booky & Footy quiz. 4 students managed to score an amazing 20/20! At lunch students were able to select books to take away from our book fair- I've never seen the library so busy! @OAOpenAcademy

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The World Book Day celebrations continue! We had great fun at our Willy Wonka puzzle escape this lunchtime. A huge thank you to Mrs Gill @NGatelibrary for the inspiration. Mrs Gunton was super impressed with students puzzle solving skills. 📚🍫🗝️ @OAOpenAcademy @WorldBookDayUK

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World Book Day: Book Week Day 1. Giving students the time to read with our hygge reading lunch. Lots of cosy reading going on! 📚☕@OAOpenAcademy @WorldBookDayUK

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Next week we'll be celebrating @WorldBookDayUK and have lots of fun bookish activities for students to get involved in. Check out this week's newsletter for all the details! @OAOpenAcademy

[Conrad Mason @conradwrites]

@library_oa @Booktrust @OAOpenAcademy This looks incredible!! Great work Hanna! :) @DFB_storyhouse

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Wow! We've had our first Bookbuzz challenge entry and it's set the bar high! Hanna has made an amazing board game based on The Girl In Wooden Armour by @conradwrites so much thought and effort has gone into this. Well done Hanna! @Booktrust @OAOpenAcademy