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- Bag A Book: Pupil Library Committee members have been helping the School Librarian for weeks to prepare withdrawn stock for our popular Bag A Book giveaway before the Spring break, held Tuesday and Thursday during lunches.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
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 )
Literary Awards & Prizes
Winners
OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature
Royal Society Children’s Book Prize
Shortlists
Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize
Longlists
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
