We had a brilliant, thought-provoking Wee Write session with Tamsin Winter. Some interesting themes were discussed and some mesmerised faces in the audience :-).
Copies of Tamsin’s books are available in the school library and also in community libraries.
In March we had a visit from the Belfast-based Glaswegian poet Charles Lang. The S1 and S2 classes who took part in the workshops with Charles had a great time composing their own poems based on the theme of ‘home’. See below for Kaspian’s fantastic effort.
Fireplace Encouragement
by Kaspian Mazerski S1 All Saints Secondary
Sitting by the fireplace
So warm and so very bright.
Every time it crackles,
It gives me a fright.
My dog sleeping near in a curled position,
Watching my brother run along the carpet,
Making fiction.
“I love my family” I say,
Eating bread
I should get ahead, and be early to bed,
Fall asleep quick…laying in bed
Hearing a tick,
The clock going off,
The day is over.
No need to scoff,
There is always tomorrow
Go get that book you wanted to borrow,
Go, do the thing you wanted to do.
Don’t imagine.
It’s all up to you.
To celebrate our S3 writers’ achievement in writing and publishing a novel in five days, we held a signing event on World Book Day. Teachers, friends and parents were invited and cakes were provided! 🙂 Many thanks again to Yvonne and Dan at White Water Writers for providing our young people with this opportunity.
https://whitewaterwriters.com/
We had a fun-packed World Book Day here in All Saints, including a fairy tale escape room, a lunch time quiz and a design a new school library bookmark competition (well done to the winners Manpreet & Love!).
Our Chill Out Tuesday club returned this month. Beanbags, books, chatting with friends, chess, mindfulness colouring and general chilling out. We also received free copies of the Happy Newspaper! 🙂
Our LGBT Pupil Champions Group helped the library to celebrate LGBT History Month in February. They participated in choosing books to buy in, helped to create a display and used the library for discussions and to prepare for their presentations for assemblies. We are well on our way on the path to our silver award!
Our LGBT+ Pupil Group did a wonderful job of helping to select some new LGBT+ books to add to our collection. Super excited to use them on our LGBT History Month display in February. Of course, a perk of the job is to get first dibs on the books :-).
I always say that the best part of this job is opening up boxes of new books. Six boxes appeared on Monday filled with YA novels, junior fiction and non-fiction. There’s also lots of new graphic novels and manga as requested by the GN&M Club. Needless to say, these flew off the shelf and soon as they got their hands on them. Some very happy young people 🙂
Just some of the new books…
Hello there!
It’s almost time to wind down for the summer holidays but our EAL book group have been busy. See the June issue for more info. Link below 🙂
June newsletter: https://t.co/WN7WReL4yS?amp=1
(This Project is supported by the Scottish Government School Library Improvement Fund).
Hello there!
It’s almost time to wind down for the summer holidays after an action packed May. We had some wonderful visitors in last month, working with our S2s in the Tech Department for the See Yourself in STEM Project. With a focus on climate change and diversity in STEM, the project was funded through SLIF (the School Library Improvement Fund) and involved collaboration between three Glasgow schools (including ours), three authors, Glasgow Life Libraries and the University of Strathclyde. Role model scientists and engineers from the university came in over four sessions. We had the opportunity to try out various experiments such as making bioplastics in the microwave and creating a potato battery. Unfortunately some potato batteries were injured in the process :-).
For more info on the project and the researcher role models click the links below:
Project: https://www.stemequals.ac.uk/Initiatives/See-Yourself-In-STEM
Role models: https://www.stemequals.ac.uk/Initiatives/See-Yourself-In-STEM/Profiles
(This Project is supported by the Scottish Government School Library Improvement Fund).
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