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World book day(s)! at St Mungo’s library

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Why celebrating “world book” for a day when we can do it for an entire WEEK!

From the 28th of February till the 4th of March, the St Mungo’s library had a full program of book festivities to give the chance to every pupils in the school to celebrate.

 

The daily S1 library visits enjoyed a very special scavenger hunt made for the occasion. Every participants received a book token to get a free book from their favourite bookshop in town.

 

At lunch, the library helpers worked hard to display all the free books we received for the occasion and made sure to spread the love of reading among the school.

What will be book festivities without any competitions?!

We had two exciting competitions running that week:

The book cover competition designed by some of our Higher and S3 Elective young people in partnership with the Art department.

Here are the three winners:

 

The bookface competition with very creative S3 pupils.

Here are some fantastic entries:

 

And finally at lunch, the library “display committee” had the responsibility to count the votes for the Scottish Teen Book prize.

They really embraced the task!

World book day(s!) was a huge success at St Mungo’s with more than 500 tokens given away to actual and potential readers!

The library is closed, long live the library!

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The St Mungo’s library is sadly closed for walk-ins and clubs until further notice.

Meanwhile, I’m trying my best for the pupils to keep in touch with literacy in respect of the Covid risk assessment plan.

The English department and I came out with a visit calendar plan for S1 and S2 classes to give the opportunity to the younger ones to have visited the library, interact with books and have the chance to borrow some.

As you can see the library is quite busy, welcoming around 3 classes a day! Luckily, I received and catalogued plenty of new stock for everyone to enjoy during their visits.

After the excitement of new books comes… the reading time! All quiet, the pupils are immerse in their imaginary world.

If the classes cannot come to the library, the library is coming to them!

To reach other year groups (S3 to S6), I have install in the English base, a library trolley with a “borrow box” with a finest choice of books and a “return box” to drop them once they have been read.

library trolley

This two wee initiatives allow the pupils and teachers to remain in touch with the library despite the sanitary situation. I’m really looking forward to the library re-opening and to organise more social and educational activities with all year groups.