Spotlight 25-26

WEEK B

WEEK BEGINNING 10/11/25

Library Spotlight Christmas poetry competition open now!

Book of the Week

Christmas Poetry Competition 2025 - All year groups -

With Remembrance Day on Tuesday coinciding with the Shell History and English WWI project, we’ve picked as our Book of the Week a stunning and moving collection of first-hand accounts from those who lived through the horrors of the First World War. Forgotten Voices of the Great War uses first-hand accounts from the ordinary men and women - soldiers, civilians, marines, and medics from both sides - who were there. The Library has three more brilliant titles in the Forgotten Voices series for you to explore. We highly recommend flicking through these books to get a sense of what it was like to live through such tumultuous and traumatic periods of modern history.

Winners announced and prizes awarded in the last week of term Send your entry to library@stedwardsoxford.org THEME: MIDWINTER DREAMS Deadline: Wednesday 26 November, 9pm

The winter poetry competition is open to ALL year

groups! As always, there will be prizes! Winners to

be announced in the last week of term.

Anti-Bullying Week Letters It’s a bumper edition of Spotlight this week! Not only do we have information from the archive on the next three pages but following that, for Anti Bullying week, you will find letters that staff have written to their 13-year-old selves.

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