What’s happening this month in St Roch’s School library
World Book Day
World Book Day is annual celebration of authors, illustrators, books and the joy of reading. It’s one of our calendar highlights in St Roch’s Library. It’s a great chance to encourage reading for fun and celebrate with some book-ish games.
This year pupils got to choose from our Creative Characters stations or Book Jenga. Pupils used lego or modelling clay to make some very impressive creations. There were lots of wonderful characters, including some well known faces and plenty of 100% originals. We got the idea for Book Jenga from the Scottish Book Trust – and added in some bookish dares for people who knocked the towers over. It’s always popular, pupils love tower building games ( especially when they fall). There was heated discussions around the book questions and lots of shouting, hopping and scribbling for the dares. Looking forward to next year already!
Ramadan and Lent
March is an important month for our religious school community, with lent and Ramadan both taking place. Throughout the month, school challenges were held to raise money for local charities. Well done to all the pupils who took part in the Fast for a day or Readathon challenge.
International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day (IWD) happens on the 8th March every year. It’s a day to celebrate all the amazing things women have achieved, and highlight the many ways women have and continue to influence the world. Importantly, it’s also used to raise awareness about past and current issues women face around the world. if you’d like to find out more, we have loads of great books in the school library about women who have done amazing things. You can see a few of our top picks on the library Padlet.
Our library volunteers put together a display to mark IWD, choosing books about important or inspiring women to highlight. They also picked out some new and favourite fiction books written by women. Special thanks to Iman who found some great quotes to fit the display.
