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It could be you

Inspired by the overwhelming enthusiasm of S1-S3 for our Comic-Con, the regular nagging of some library assistants AND the amazing Excelsior Award I have decided to start our very own comic group – The Excelsior Club!

The aim of the club will be two-fold; initially to shadow the Junior and Senior Excelsior Award and then to gain a broader knowledge of comics and graphic novels whilst having some fun.

if you want to sign up for the club – it will cost you a grand sum of £1. For this you will get your very own SHAZAMPACK!; including a free comic, a set of voting sheets for the Excelsior Award, a pen, a supermunchable, 5 raffle tickets ( to win one of the short listed titles) and a delightful polly pocket to keep all your stuff in. You will also receive a party invitation to COMICARAMA; a party to celebrate all things comic- which will take place in June.

All this will kick off in January when we have all the short listed titles in. Your job will be to read, review , enjoy, chat and share with the group.
You may also wish to come up with your own superhero alter-ego.
I get first dibs on Batgirl for obvious reasons!

Mrs Baird wonders what chocolate bar goes best with destroying villains?

We will meet every second Friday in the library at break, starting in January– don’t worry if you cant make a meeting you can still pick up a read any time the library is open and hand in your voting sheets when you can.

So, if you are interested, why not pop in to the library and find out more!

First Pass and more

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For a number of years with the support of History/Mods department we have jointly been running a project to get more pupils reading and thinking about their social subjects.
This manifested itself into the first pass scheme where pupils would read, rate and review fiction and non-fiction relating to their subjects.
Due to the changes made by the local authority to school librarians meaning that I am only at St.Ninian’s 50% of the time I did not want this scheme to fall by the wayside.
In consultation with the wonderful Ms Scroggie we decided to go down the class library route in supporting pupils achieving their First Pass.

This has proved a continuing success in allowing pupils to read and enjoy fiction chosen by me suitable for their age range and appropriate to their areas of study.
As Christmas approaches both Ms Scroggie and I wanted to evaluate the strengths and tackle the weaknesses of the scheme; therefore I will be heading all the way upstairs to Hist/Mods to speak to pupils about what they have and have not enjoyed about the scheme.

I am looking forwards to hearing suggestions from the pupils and to hear which titles have most caught their imagination.
New and relevant titles are coming out all the time and I plan to swap over the class libraries with a refreshed selection; including works by Alex Wheatle (the Brixton Bard), Cathy MacPhail (the Greenock Guru) and congressman John Lewis.

Literary Christmas Viewing

The all new Excelsior Club!

First Pass and more