This #WorldBookNight visit the #NationalShelfService YouTube channel for librarian book recommendations every hour from 11am to 8pm so you won’t run out of reading material!
Join Aberdeen City Libraries online!
You can join Aberdeen City Libraries online here. If you’re under 16, you’ll need to have a parent fill in their details. It’s quick and easy. You’ll then be able to log in to lots of free online resources.
You can download the BorrowBox app from the app store on your device for ebooks and audioboooks.
You can also download the RBDigital app for more audiobooks.
With the PressReader app you can read newspapers and magazines!
What are you waiting for? Get reading! 🙂
Free access to Scribd
Free access to Scribd for 30 days. Read ebooks, audiobooks and magazines. Sign up with facebook, gmail or another email. Happy reading!
10 minute writing challenges
This is a great way to get writing. Try the #Authorfy10minutechallenge and see where your imagination takes you today 🙂
Stream audiobooks for free!
I’m a huge fan of audiobooks. Now audible are giving people free access to some of their collection at https://stories.audible.com
It’s easiest to listen while you’re doing something else. Try listening to an audiobook while you’re doing a puzzle, colouring in, building with lego, crafting or doing the housework. The time will fly by 😉
Free access to myON for all pupils
Stream and read hundreds of books with myON. Click on the image below, or visit https://readon.myon.co.uk/ 
Click here for my guide to using myON and finding suitable texts.
Keep calm and keep quizzing!
School may be closed, but S1 and S2 pupils will still be able to do Accelerated Reader book quizzes! Click on the link below, or by clicking Renaissance Place in the links on the left 😉
If you’ve forgotten your password or locked yourself out of your account, email me on the school’s gmail.
They Shall Not Grow Old
This week we’ll be showing They Shall Not Grow Old –
– Peter Jackson’s new film which brings the First World War to life using technology to transform century-old footage from the First World War into HD colour. The film has been given a cinema rating of 15 as it contains content that some pupils may find upsetting. Pupils are asked to use their own discretion to decide whether the screening will be suitable for them.
Wednesday 7th, Thursday 8th and Friday 9th 12.30-1.10pm.
You may bring a packed lunch, but pupils are asked to watch the film respectfully.
Doors closed from 12.40pm.
If you can’t make it don’t worry. It will be shown on Sunday 11th of November on BBC2 at 9.30pm and will be available on BBC Iplayer.
Christmas Book Club
Our new Scholastic Book Club is up and running! Go to http://schools.scholastic.co.uk/harlaw-academy to browse the latest books and order online. For every £1 you spend on this month’s Book Club, our school will earn 25p in Scholastic Rewards.
Please place your order online by December 14th, 2017.
Research ideas for Advanced Higher pupils
Register for a MyJSTOR account (for FREE!!) and they will be able to browse the full content and read up to three articles a fortnight, storing them on a digital shelf linked to their account. Just register for an account at http://about.jstor.org/rr
You can also get access to journals by creating an account with the National Library of Scotland https://auth.nls.uk/eresources/ You will be sent your password, so don’t leave this to the last minute!
You can of course access journals when you visit the library at Aberdeen University. It’s really important that you remember to take along a usb to enable you to download any relevant articles.
And don’t forget Google Scholar.
If you need assistance with your research I’m happy to help out, so please come and see me 🙂
