It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…in the library. 📚
Our elves have been busy putting up our new library Christmas Tree, courtesy of Ms Kelly 🤶 🎄
There are new displays in the library as well. One with Christmas themed books and one with some contemporary senior fiction for reading over the holidays. All available to borrow
The Reading Schools Committee have been busy starting the library Christmas decorations. We have window displays and also the 3rd year of the Annual Hyndland Library Christmas Book Tree 🎄 Excited to see how this years turns out! Will keep you all updated.. 🎅
Getting into the Christmas spirit!
Baubles!
Snowflakes and Angels
Happy Hanukkah!
3rd year is a charm
St Paul’s has been awarded the Scottish Book Trust’s Silver Reading Schools status 🥈 We could not have achieved this without the hard work of our Senior Ambassadors, teachers and staff. The work for Gold starts now! 🥇
Lots of things happening in St Paul’s library this month. We’ve had loads of new books delivered, made new displays and had award winning author, Danielle Jawando visiting.
Lots of exciting new books delivered for our lovely pupils to choose from.
Lovely new books!
New books mean new displays. As the nights are drawing in and the season’s change, the leaves begin to change colour and fall – Autumn Means Orange.
Autumnal display
Our second display says exactly what it is – New Stuff to Read 😆
It’s new. It’s stuff. Read it.
On 13th March we were lucky to have the award wining author Danielle Jawando visiting the library. Danielle spoke to a group of senior pupils about her books: When Our Worlds Collided, And the Stars Were Burning Brightly and her most recent book, If My Words Had Wings.
September has seen a number of new additions to the library. 🥳
We have had a few deliveries this month and now have lots of great new titles to choose from. The Friday Finishers created this awesome display incorporating lots of lovely new stock 🥰
Some of our new titles
Friday Finishers display
There are 2 new D&D clubs up and running in Hyndland. The Tuesday Club have embraced the D20 and started their own campaign. It’s been running for a few weeks now and going well.
Tuesday library club starting their campaign
On a Thursday after school the seniors are running their own club which is open to all. If you would like to join just come along to the library at 2:45, everyone is welcome. 👋
Hyndland library celebrate World Book Day with a Big Book Quiz at lunchtimes throughout the week. The Friday Finishers also created this wonderful display to celebrate the day.
World Book Day Display
World book Day quiz
March was an extremely busy month in the library. We had various World Book Day events and two amazing author sessions. Let’s have a look 😊
The library was very busy during the week of World Book Day. We had a book themed Scavenger Hunt, a Big Book Quiz and an Easter basket full of goodies that was raffled off to teachers. All of the events were organised and ran by our Senior Literacy Ambassadors. Congratulations go to them, they did an absolutely fantastic job 🥰
Winners of the scavenger hunt
Big Book Quiz
Easter Basket Winner
During March the library hosted not one but two fabulous author visits. The first author was Hiba Noor Khan talking about her book ‘Safiyyah’s War’
Hiba talking about Safiyyah’s War
Our second author visit was from Brian Conaghan talking about his book ‘Treacle Town’. Brian’s visit was part of the Library Young Team Project supported by the Scottish Library Improvement Fund.
Brian Conaghan talking about his book Treacle Town
This month the library received some new furniture, kindly donated by Silverburn Shopping Centre. We now have two lovely new seated areas that can be used for private study, quiet reading or small group work.
Our senior Reading Ambassadors have been working with the Rights Respecting Schools group to create a display around the theme of Identity tying in with Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January.
The library newsletter is being sent out to all staff and parents this week. It’s full of recommendations, library news and activities.
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We have been very busy this December getting the library ready for Christmas. Our Tuesday Library Club members have outdone themselves this year with the library book tree. I think we can all agree it looks tremendous, well done everyone!
Our Book Tree!
We received some exciting new stock this month, a complete collection of Death Note (Manga). Not the most festive, but one of the worlds most popular Manga series!
Our Reading Schools group has been busy this month making ‘Shelf Shouters’. These are all around the library recommending books to everyone. Keep an eye out for them and give them a try
T’is the season of giving and currently the library desk is giving serious festive vibes, unlike the display which is giving serious lack of festive stock vibes. However, we have tried, and feel proud about shoehorning in that Christmas cookbook.
An attempt has been made 🙂
We tried
The holidays are fast approaching and what better time to catch up on your reading. In the true spirit of Christmas the Reading Schools team has created this Staff Borrow box. It contains contemporary YA fiction and non-fiction titles for your delectation. The box is situated within the school foyer. To borrow a book, simply fill in the form with your name, title of the book and date of borrowing. Just sign it back in when you are finished. Merry Christmas!!
Pupils have been busy this month collecting book recommendations from parents/carers. These have been collated and presented in this Sway presentation. Hope it gives you some reading inspiration!
https://sway.office.com/IIaxsOCysIRuRHfD?ref=Link
