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Thank you to @AHicksonLovence and the Wymondham Words festival for an inspiring and engaging author visit with year 9 today. 🎤✍️📙

We are really excited to share that @AHicksonLovence will be visiting school next week as part of the Wymondham Words festival for an author talk, creative writing workshop & book sale. More details to follow via parentmail. @WyHighAcademy @UkslaN

The 2nd heats of the What on Earth! Schools Quiz Challenge 2024 stormed ahead today 🧠 🏆 More schools from all over the UK competed for places in the final, including @WyRead, @hebburn_comp, @stcleopas, and many more! Congratulations to all the fantastic teams that took part!

@whatonearthbook Well done to all: amazing teamwork and knowledge shown! Lots of fun too, thank you @whatonearthbook #WhatOnEarthQuiz @WyHighAcademy

Round 2 was tough! Students are feeling the tension. 😬 @whatonearthbook

And we're off... Students competing in the Britannica Schools Challenge defending our national champions title! Good luck to the team. 📚🌟 @whatonearthbook @WyHighAcademy

A fantastic lunchtime sharing poetry with students from across the school and sixth form! @WyHighAcademy @PoetryDayUK

Last week we hosted the brilliant @MitchAuthor for a visit with year 7. Mitch talked to us about the inspiration and research behind his book Toxic, helped students develop ideas and opening lines for their own stories, and signed 200+ books! 🎉🐸📚 @WyHighAcademy @kett

Thank you @Usborne for our early reader copy of Heart Seer by @RowanFoxwood. One of our student librarians, Erin, took the book home yesterday, finished it in one sitting, and wrote a great review to share their thoughts. Look out for this title in the library soon.

We are ready for our visit from @MitchAuthor tomorrow. Students: remember to pack your copies of Toxic. Copies of Mitch's other books will be on sale for £7 each. 📚🐸📝@wyhighacademy

There's just one week to go until we welcome @MitchAuthor into school to visit our Year 7 students as part of their transition read. We can't wait! Books will be available for sale on the day from @KettsBooks Look out for a parentmail with more details! @WyHighAcademy

Our fantastic team of student librarians helped to update our library displays today. We're ready with lots of activities for #NationalPoetryDay tomorrow & have lots of recommended books to help educate, inspire and empower our students for #BlackHistoryMonthUK . 📚

Calling all witches, wizards and muggles alike... Join us for a magical showdown at our Harry Potter quiz night. Booking forms available from reception. 🧙‍♂️⚡📚 @WyHighAcademy @UkslaN

Lovely to see lots of pupils for our club fair last week... And even better to see faces old and new at our clubs this week. New members are welcome at any time so why not come along and give something new a try! @WyHighAcademy

We wish all students, staff, and members of our community a safe and fun summer filled with lots of books! ☀️

It has been an amazing year in the library... Here is a quick snapshot! @WyHighAcademy @UkslaN

She's also left behind an inspirational quote from Run Rebel for our students on our author wall. Thanks for helping to organise! @AuthorsAloudUK

A huge thank you to Manjeet Mann for visiting students at @WyHighAcademy this morning. Manjeet gave an inspirational talk about her writing journey, talked about her process, and gave us an in-depth look at the inspiration behind her novels. 👏📚✍️ @UkslaN @schsofsan

We've had a fantastic couple of days in the library meeting our incoming Y6 students. Each student has been gifted a copy of Toxic by @MitchAuthor to read over the summer. Lots of excitement already....We can't wait to hear their thoughts on the book! 📚☀️🐸

Congratulations for Barney, who is the second student this year to earn their Silver Student Librarian Award. He's just finished this fascinating display about '-punk' subgenres. @WyHighAcademy @UkslaN