Sharples Library

Our English Ambassador Aamira V hosted a fantastic quiz as part of our Fantasy week this week! #Wicked @SharplesSchool

Our Library is Wicked!! Are you Team Elpheba or Team Glinda? 🧙 🩷💚

Some fabulous Y7s reading aloud during form time this morning! They’re over halfway through Tyger by SF Said! Well done to Ibrahim P and Mabroor H!! @SharplesSchool

Some more great pictures from yesterday! @SharplesSchool

@SharplesPrimary Y6 pupils enjoyed an afternoon of spooooooky literature. They got stuck into a Halloween-themed quiz testing their knowledge of famous authors and texts and even some poetry recitals! Huge thanks to our English ambassadors from Year 9 and 8! @SharplesSchool 🎃👻

Y8 are on their final chapters of their Form Time read: Hacker! Will they figure out who framed Vicky’s dad? @SharplesSchool

Wednesday means Trivia! Our reading ambassadors quizzed their peers on their knowledge of historical and contemporary black figures! #BlackHistoryMonth @SharplesSchool @SharplesEnglish

Tuesday was Black Voices Book Club! Mrs Topham and book club members explored key black figures and the hardships that black women in STEM endured! @SharplesSchool @SharplesEnglish

BHM in the library is well under way! This lunchtime, a black figures Scavenger Hunt! 🕵️ @SharplesSchool @SharplesEnglish

Freshers Fortnight has begun!! Today is a treasure hunt! 👀 @SharplesSchool

We are ready for our Meet the Head/Helpdesk Evening! We have some good bags ready to giveaway to our Y6s this evening 😎 @SharplesSchool @SharplesEnglish

@PiuDasGupta1 is the last author of the day telling us about her front cover and her inspiration a for her book Secrets of the Snakestone! #BCFA2025

We are at Bolton School today for the Bolton Children Fiction Awards! We can’t wait to meet the authors and get our books signed! #BCFA2025 @SharplesSchool @SharplesEnglish

The library transformed into the crime scene tonight for our Y6s! The big question on everyone’s mind: Who Killed Mrs Mopp? @SharplesSchool @SharplesTransi1

We love reading at all times of the day!! @SharplesSchool

Azraa R made some wonderful Harry Potter cakes in honour of our World Book Week Harry Potter theme! They are incredible! 🧁🧙

In Art for #worldbookday2025 Y7 & Y8 got to experience what it's like to work as a book illustrator. After reading a description of a Fantastic Beast from Harry Potter, pupils had to do an illustration based on the description. Can you tell which Beast they were illustrating? 📚

Thank you to all of our staff who dressed up today, it was truly magical ✨🪄 #WorldBookDay

Just some of our incredible teachers dressing up today for #WorldBookDay!! @SharplesSchool

📚#WorldBookDay is a perfect opportunity to shine a light on careers using English. There are many with a direct link to the subject but the skills that you develop through studying English can be applied in all occupations.@SharplesEnglish @CareersWeek #NCW2025

Lovely afternoon exploring Harry Potter with y7 for wbd 2025 @SharplesSchool