Past May for the Mental health week awareness, the library display committee did a great job on making a display to promote reading for #keeptheheid

“It’s ok to need a break sometimes – when everything is getting to you, remember that mental health is important now more than ever. Take time for yourself.” Scotland now.

To celebrate the power of reading, the pupils selected books about mental health, wellbeing, self-esteem, positive quotes, posters from #Keeptheheid campaign and lovely quotes from different inspiring people (Malala…) a bit of fiction and non-fiction all together.

“Taking some time for yourself to relax and do things you enjoy like reading is important to help look after your mental health and wellbeing. It has been scientifically proven that reading for just SIX minutes a day boosts your mental health by 68%.” Keep the heid.

The pupils were very excited to participate to the photo competition organised by SLIC Scotland.  They had fun clicking pictures of Scully Escobear and friends reading.

“He is not the only one to love reading, he shares his passion with many pupils in our school.” S1 pupil.

You can imagine my excitement when I received the email about our library winning the photographic competition (£100 Waterstones voucher hooray!!) and I let you have a look on the memorable reaction of the pupils when I told them

We had a good laugh during that lunch 😀 and we are planning to have a sub-committee to create a participatory buying list.