We celebrated World Book Day in Bellahouston with free WBD books and tokens, a book giveaway and a display of award winning and nominated books of the last year.
March – World Book Day in Bellahouston
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March – World Book Day in Rosshall
We celebrated World Book Day in Rosshall Library with free WBD books and tokens, competitions, a book giveaway and a display of award winning and nominated books of the last year.
Well done to our two competitions winners Ella and Seeret!
Celebrating LGBT History Month in Bellahouston
In February we celebrated LGBT History Month in Bellahouston with our display.
Rosshall Feb Roundup – Celebrating LGBT History Month
To celebrate LGBT History Month, the librarian visited the LGBTQI+ pupil group for a chat, our LGBTQI+ participatory budgeting session books arrived and members of the pupil group did a great job creating our LGBT History Month display.
Rosshall January Roundup
This month in Rosshall:
Participatory budgeting session to further diversify our stock. Great choices everyone!
A new display for the New Year – Try Something New!
New senior books courtesy of the SLIF White Water Writers project. List below:
| Bernardine Evaristo | Girl, Woman, Other |
| Haruki Murakimi | Nowegian Wood |
| Toni Morrison | The Bluest Eye |
| James Baldwin | Go Tell it on the Mountain |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | Never Let Me Go |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | Klara and the Sun |
This Project is supported by the Scottish Government School Library Improvement Fund.
Bellahouston January Round Up
As promised, we have a display of our newly purchased stock from our participatory budgeting session last term. A great addition to the collection. Great choices everyone!
Also, we received some new senior fiction stock as part of the same project. List below:
| Bernardine Evaristo | Girl, Woman, Other |
| Haruki Murakimi | Nowegian Wood |
| Toni Morrison | The Bluest Eye |
| Kazuo Ishiguro | Klara and the Sun |
| Toni Morrison | Sula |
| Colson Whitehead | The Nickel Boys |
“This Project is supported by the Scottish Government School Library Improvement Fund”
Rosshall November/December Roundup
6 weeks at Rosshall 🙂
We’ve had:
A big new books delivery and display.
Book Week Scotland – we had competitions, a display, a book giveaway and other bookish activities. Well done to the winner of our bookmark design competition, Olivia in S1!
A Christmas/Winter display.
An author visit from the wonderful Maisie Chan. Some great questions from our budding S1 authors.
Bellahouston November/December Round Up
A busy 6 weeks at Bellahouston!
We’ve had:
A big new books delivery and display.
A participatory budget session – a group of pupils helped to choose books to further diversify our collection. The book delivery has now arrived. Watch this space. (Many thanks to @wwaterwriters & the Scottish Government School Library Improvement Fund for their support).
Book Week Scotland – we had competitions, a display, a book giveaway and other bookish activities. Well done to the winner of our bookmark design competition, Shanza in S4!
A Christmas/Winter display.
An author visit from Victoria Williamson. Ms Donnelly’s S1 class had so much fun creating their own stories at this creative writing workshop. Again, watch this space.
A P7 transition visit. A group of P7s visited the library and took part in a book tasting activity.
Black History Month in Rosshall
We celebrated Black History Month with our popular display.
Some more information below:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/explainers-54522248
October in Bellahouston Library
This month in Bellahouston Academy Library…
Participatory Budget Session.
This is part of the White Water Writers SLIF project. A group of pupils selected books to help build a more diverse and inclusive collection.
Celebrating Black History Month display
New Books!!!
