All in all an absolutely ELECTRIC day! Thank you @RachelDelahaye ! ⚡️⚡️⚡️ @SchoolRidgeway

We were treated to a talk about Rachel's reading journey and a workshop on creating dystopian fiction - our students were absolutely enthralled from start to finish! @SchoolRidgeway @RachelDelahaye

Road trip! Last year's inter-school book debate students regrouped today to meet author Rachel Delahaye - author of 'Elecrtic Life', winning book from the debate in Devizes School @SchoolRidgeway @RachelDelahaye

We've had some cracking entries already into our 'Noel a Novel' competition! Don't worry if you haven't entered yet - you've still got some time! 🎅❄️ @SchoolRidgeway

Have you been up to the library to check out our new displays yet? 👀📗@SchoolRidgeway

Pop into the LRC to pick up a festive read and enter our fabulous CHRISTMAS COMPETITION to be in with a chance of winning a prize! @SchoolRidgeway

Last but certainly not least, some happy librarians with Mr Mayor. Very proud of our students, and very proud to see them celebrated at events like this! That's @SwindonYFL concluded for another year... now onto planning the next one! 😀 @SchoolRidgeway

Here are some of our wonderful students with their prizes awarded by none other than the Mayor of Swindon who also kindly posed for some pictures. Huge congratulations to you all! @SchoolRidgeway @SwindonYFL

Our fantastic sponsors attended, including a pop up stall from @bertsbooks, and lots of attendees were thrilled to use the slide down into the event! @SwindonYFL @SchoolRidgeway

Prizes were awarded for the inter-school competitions we ran including creative writing and poetry, as well as each school putting forward an exceptional student to receive a 'library ambassador' award! @SwindonYFL @SchoolRidgeway

Last night we had the honour of attending the @SwindonYFL Celebration Event to congratulate and celebrate some of our fantastic students! Here are some of the competition winning pieces on display... @SchoolRidgeway

We are so proud of Team Ridgeway for placing 3rd overall with 66 points Huge congratulations to Kingsdown for placing 2nd with 68 points and Lydiard Park Academy for securing a win with 69 points! All teams did fantastically and it was a very close call!

To round off SYFL week, we hosted the Book Quiz! 6 students from each of our 12 wonderful schools came together to flex their knowledge and battle it out for some fabulous prizes including the coveted Winners Shield!

Big shout out to our wonderful Community Champions who helped everything run smoothly during our event this morning! We couldn't have done without you! @SchoolRidgeway

This afternoon our students were lucky enough to meet Matt themselves and really enjoyed hearing about his books, how he got into writing, and some of his controversial football opinions! #MessiVsRonaldo ⚽️ @footieheroesbks @SchoolRidgeway @SwindonYFL

Matt Oldfield was our 'Ultimate Author Hero' today! We hosted 290 Yr5 students from across Swindon who were captivated during his talk today - the atmosphere was electric! @SchoolRidgeway @SwindonYFL @footieheroesbks

Poetry Part 2: Everyone, and we mean everyone, joined in this morning with @ashdpoet @SchoolRidgeway @SwindonYFL. The Maths teachers couldn't resist the numbers...

Poetry Part 1: A passion for poetry with plenty of performers, a Spanish Shadorma and a Six Wheeler with year 7 @SchoolRidgeway and @ashdpoet @SwindonYFL

Part 2 from our trip to @WyvernTheatre @SwindonYFL @SchoolRidgeway

Author Julian Sedgwick and manga artist Chie Kutsuwada had us all GRIPPED with their ghost stories, artistic talents and more today at @WyvernTheatre Another fantastic SYFL day - how lucky are we! @SchoolRidgeway @SwindonYFL