A Twitter account from the school library all about reading for pleasure at Varndean School. Account maintained by school librarian Ms Shanahan (she/her).
Brighton, England
Joined November 2013
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Arrived today! A big thank you to @jhalakprize for their #giveaway, our students are absolutely going to love this fantastic book 📚
So exciting!! Our students are definitely going to be watching this 🩸🔪🕵️ @HoJay92
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Varndean Books retweeted
'A beautifully written call to arms' The Guardian
One of @BigIssue and @DailyMailUK 's books of the year
GIVE AWAY for paperback launch.
3 prizes of...
Book (signed), bookmark and Adopt a Whale with @whalesorg
To enter: Follow, RT and tag a whale loving friend
Varndean Books retweeted
#GiveawayAlert: to win a copy of the powerful, complex YA novel #WhenOurWorldsCollided by #DanielleJawando, shortlisted for the Jhalak C&YA Prize 2023, RT + reply to this tweet by noon tomorrow (UK only).
#jhalakprize23 #giveaway #JhalakShowcase #giveaway
ALT Jacket with faces of three young people in the centre: a young woman with curly dark hair flanked by two young men. Identifying text in orange and white
The @artistshouses held on the weekend was an absolute success! It was so fantastic to have the opportunity to show off our talented art and technology students' work. As always, it was a pleasure holding it in the Reading Room 🎨❤️📚 @VarndeanSchool
Varndean Books retweeted
We're celebrating the release of the movie 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' with books and bookmarks to give away.
A funny, nostalgic, moving film that absolutely does justice to the iconic book.
To enter, follow us and retweet this tweet.
#ItsMeMargaret #TeamEnglish
ALT Text reads: Win for your school library. PIcture of the cover of the book Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Bloom and Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret bookmarks to celebrate the launch of the film.
So proud of Athina (7SNE), her fantastic design will be worn proudly! @LennoxVarndean 🤍
Congratulations Athina in y7 whose image was chosen as the winning design for our new student librarian badge! Meeting here with designer Shadric Toop @ToopStudio to talk over the final product before it goes to production. We look forward to our students wearing the new badges!
So proud of all but particularly Athina and Aya (7SNE) for their part in designing the new Librarian badges and Ethan (7NJR), Jay and Imran (7ABI) for working incredibly hard and achieving their Bronze @AccReader badges 🌟
#hotchocfri celebrated excellent attitudes to school life, revision & GCSEs, winning & runner up library badge designs, settling into Varndean so well, 100% attendance, working hard for bronze #varndeanreader & bronze accelerated reader and rugby success
Varndean Books retweeted
It's 5 weeks till my summery teen romcom, The Thing About Lemons, is out! It's got:
🍋an embarrassed, guilt-ridden teenager
🍋a change of plans
🍋a road trip through France
🍋secrets and surprises
🍋a LOT of unexpected romance!
Available to pre-order now! #readingforpleasure
Varndean Books retweeted
Just 1 month to go until our @artistshouses @FivewaysArtists exhibition!
Open Saturday 20th May only, please save the date and do pop in as part of your #fiveways trail. All welcome #AOH23 #ceramics #paintings #art
Congratulations to Ronan (7BWH) and Eva (7LPI), our winner and runner-up of the Book Jacket Potato Competition for #WorldBookDay2023! @RussellVarndean @TuringVarndean 💙❤️
A massive well done to 7CEV & 8LBU for being our top scoring forms in @AccReader this term! Mr Evans & Ms Bush are super proud. Also to 11JXC for winning the Masked Reader competition for #WorldBookDay! Big day for #TeamRed @TuringVarndean ❤️
So fantastic to see so many Student Librarians taking part in this incredibly important (and fun!) charity event. Well done @AngelouVarndea1
It was a jam packed hall for the Angelou #charity fair, raising funds for @Refugees thank you to all students taking part, lovely to see so many different ideas for #fundraising
Well done to Pearl (7ABI), a fantastically dedicated student librarian ⭐️ @AngelouVarndea1 💚
Well done to our #hotchocfri nominees recognised for being fantastic student librarians, commitment & success with girl's football, improved attitude & behaviour, kindness, going above & beyond, charity work, for performing in a London show and high achievement points 🌟
We are so excited (and feel very special!) to have received an early copy of @DotDashTash's new book, The Thing About Lemons! It is wonderful to have local authors represented in our Reading Room 🍋
It's #IrisBakes! Today it is tiffins and nothing could be better on a rainy Monday morning 🍫☔️ @AngelouVarndea1
A massive thank you to @PiersTorday who came and visited our Year 7s last week. His passion for the reading, literature and the environment was incredibly inspiring 📚🦌 #thelastwild
In today's episode of #IrisBakes, we have flapjacks! Some very happy student (and adult) librarians this morning 🧁 @AngelouVarndea1 💚
Well look what arrived in the post this morning! As one of our most popular authors in our Reading Room, I know this book will be a massive hit and I'm so excited for our students to get their hands on it!🏳️🌈 @simonjamesgreen
