March 2022 Roundup – St Margaret Mary’s Secondary School Library

World Book Day Week: This year, World Book Day was celebrated on Thursday, March 3rd and the School Library delivered a plethora of fun, bookish activities throughout the week. Our World Book Day programme included the following activities, where participants were entered into a prize draw for a £10 National Book Token:

  • World Book Day Quiz: A book-themed quiz was delivered during both lunch periods in the School Library for St Margaret Mary’s pupils and in class time for St Oswald’s pupils. All participants were entered into the prize draw and those with the highest points received three entries into the draw. 
  • Bookopoly: Pupils are given a Bookopoly board. They can choose to read two fiction books per genre, one nonfiction book per subject, and/or three ‘chances’ where they can either select a ‘reading dare’ or spin the Wheel of Genre. The completion of each genre/subject/chance grants them an entry into the monthly school library prize draw. Pupils can also earn a certificate for completing the entire board.  
  • Ask Me What I’m Reading: The winning designs from our Ask Me What I’m Reading design competition were circulated alongside a sheet where pupils must ask five people what they’re reading. This is to encourage pupils and staff to have a conversation about books and promoting literature via word of mouth. Submitted forms grants one entry into the monthly school library prize draw. 

Pupil Library Committee:  Our PLC members were very busy this month with various activities: 

  • Pop-Up Library: Members of our Pupil Library Committee volunteered to host a pop-up library stall in the Fuel Zone during lunches throughout World Book Day week. Members promoted the variety of World Book Day activities and reading challenges as well as selected books to display and promote for borrowing. This initiative was so successful that we’re planning on hosting other Pop-Up Libraries in the future.  
  • Bag A Book: Pupil Library Committee members have been helping the School Librarian for weeks to prepare withdrawn stock for our popular Bag A Book giveaway before the Spring break, held Tuesday and Thursday during lunches.

World Poetry Day Quiz: Pupils and staff were invited to participate in a quiz of Teams, inspired by the Librarian @GrammarLRC. Can you guess whether the passage is a lyric or a title?  

Library Publications: Swatch Spring 22 

   March Booklists 

March 22 Booklists – Book Trust 

Best New Children’s Books – Toppsta  

Bookbug’s Books of the Month – Scottish Book Trust 

Books of the Month – LoveReading4Kids 

March Roundup – Love Reading 

Book of the Month – Scholastic  

Books of the Month – Waterstones  

Children’s Book Roundup – Guardian  

 

Upcoming Events (April) 

BigDog Book Festival (Wigtown, Scotland, 1st – 3rd)  

Cúirt International Festival of Literature (Galway, Ireland, 4th – 10th)  

Southside Fringe (Glasgow, Scotland) 

Wee Write Festival (Glasgow, Scotland) 

Cambridge Literary Festival (Cambridge, England, 20th – 24th 

Soutar Festival of Words (Perth, Scotland, 22nd – 24th) 

World Book Night (UK & International, 23rd) 

McLellan Arts Festival Poetry Fringe (Arran, Scotland, 28th 

Colonsay Book Festival (Colonsay, Scotland 30th 

Bocas Lit Fest (Caribbean, 30th – 2nd May) 

 

Past Events (March) 

International Women’s Day (8th ) & Women’s History Month 

British Science Week (11-20 ) 

Neurodiversity Celebration Week (21st – 27th  

Jaipur Lit Fest 

 

Literary Awards & Prizes  

Winners 

Audie Awards 

Blue Peter Book Awards 

OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature  

Rathebones Folio Prize 

Royal Society Children’s Book Prize 

Shortlists 

British Book Awards 

Tir na n-Og 

UKLA 

YOTO Carnegie Medal  

YOTO Kate Greenaway Medal 

Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize

Longlists  

International Booker Prize 

Jhalak Prize 

Women’s Prize 

 

In the news:  

A Field Guide to Strange Medieval Monsters – Open Culture 

Beyond the fog of war: Books to help us understand the invasion of Ukraine – Guardian 

Free Colouring Books from the Public Domain Review – Open Culture  

Outrage as LGBT author banned at state school – Politics.co.uk 

The Reading Agency partners with the British Science Museum on this year’s Summer Reading Challenge Theme – The Reading Agency  

 

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