Biblio-buzz 2023: The Alexandra Palace Children’s Book Award

Our Year 7 Book Club is busy reading the books shortlisted for Biblio-buzz, the Alexandra Palace Children’s Book Award. This book award is very close to my heart as I am one of the shortlisters and part of the team which originally created the award and brought it to Alexandra Palace. This year our team…

Poetry event with Joseph Coelho

The new Waterstones Children’s Laureate is poet Joseph Coelho. On 15th November a group of Year 9 students joined him virtually in the LRC for an interactive poetry workshop based on his new book, The Boy Lost in the Maze. The Boy Lost in the Maze is a verse novel drawing on the myth of…