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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”

Well done to our S6 Library Ambassadors!

This year we’ve established a fabulous group of Senior Library Ambassadors.

Ten of our S6s have been devoting some of their own time to help in the library and promote reading throughout the school.

As well as learning new skills, organising competitions and lunchtime clubs, the group have been acting as mentors to our S1s through the Paired Reading project and during library class visits.

Volunteering in the library contributes to our whole school Citizenship initiative and our application for Reading Schools accreditation with the Scottish Book Trust. Two of our Library Ambassadors are also completing an SQA Leadership Award.

Thank you to everyone for your hard work in making sure the library is right at the heart of Hillpark!

Holocaust Memorial Day

Between 1941 and 1945, the Nazis and their collaborators systemically murdered millions of Jewish people throughout Europe.  We remember this genocide as the Holocaust, and reflect upon it’s horrific impact on Holocaust Memorial Day (27th January).  You can learn more from the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.

It is important to learn and understand from our history, particularly in these turbulent times.  Learning through fiction as well as non fiction helps us to feel the impact of war and persecution beyond the harrowing facts we’re taught.  This Holocaust Memorial Day, try these books to build your empathy and understanding on how people are affected by the devastation of war and discrimination throughout the world, both today and in the past.

                           

January in St Paul’s

Happy New Year and welcome to the first blog post of 2024 🥳

New Furniture 🛋️

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.

Reading Schools 📚

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.

Newsletter 📜

The library newsletter is being sent out to all staff and parents this week. It’s full of recommendations, library news and activities.

 

 

Go to this Sway

 

January’s author visit and more in 2024

Eastbank School Library was super lucky to have Neil Slorance as a visiting author this month.  Neil is an illustrator who has worked with many well known clients such as the BBC, STV, Titan Comics  – and contributed to the official Dr Who comic books.

Our S3 pupils took part in a session where Neil demonstrated how to build characters.   The pupils went on to draw their own ideas with guidance and tips from Neil, finally creating an individual comic strip narrative.  You can see how interested and hard working our pupils were during the session below.  And thanks go to the Scottish Book Trust Live Literature Scheme, who part-funded the session.

 We would love to have Neil back again soon.

It has been such a busy start to 2024 in the library here at Eastbank Academy.   I think with everyone being off school in the Christmas break, they’ve tidied their rooms and brought back lots of books at the start of term.  In one single afternoon, from a tidy desk at midday, the library returns desk looked like this !

But on the other hand, January often is a time when we’re stuck inside as the weather is awful, we can’t get out and play sports or anything – so instead we like to have some of our favourite books to read and enjoy.  I think all these things have combined together and left our football book spinner as bare as last year’s Christmas tree in January !   Pupils – please bring back all the overdue books as soon as you can, especially the football collection, manga and the Wimpy Kid books.  Other pupils are waiting to read them and the bookcase is missing being full.

Last, but by no means least, we have more brilliant books just added to the library bookshelves.  Come and see them soon.  In particular, we are loving Ultra Wild by Steve Mushin.  Even the cover art is amazing !  Ultra Wilde is a series of very detailed comic strips which give wild, extreme and wacky ways we could help to return cities to the wild and combat climate change.  Although lots of fun, it really highlights the problems we have with urban environments co-existing with nature.  Steve’s narrative describes how we got to where we are today in modern cities, and how science around bringing nature back in to cities is possible.  It’s such a fun book as the ideas are taken to the extreme with instructions even on how to put a cannon into your toilet – so much fun! But again, it gives lots of interesting ideas and data on climate change as well, making it really useful.  Get it out on loan today – you will love it.

** For more information on the illustrator Neil Slorance please visit his website – www.neilslorance.com

***And for more information about the Ultra Wild book please see www.ultrawild.org

New year, new books!

The year 2024 started off with an amazing surprise – the arrival of a fresh new stock!

The library assistants were thrilled to take charge of unboxing and ensuring that all titles were accounted for. They were already busy planning the future display.

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In this delivery, some books were requested by pupils and they finally arrived! The joy on their faces when I told them the long-awaited book is finally here!

What a fantastic way to start off the year!

Lochend Loves Books Even More in 2024

Here at Lochend we love reading.   Library visits happen on a Monday and Friday when Mrs Marshall, our School Librarian, is here.  But that means on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday we can’t visit the library to take books home.  However, we’ve got a brand new system of Book Boxes in January in every English Classroom.  This means we can enjoy reading in the classroom on the days Mrs Marshall isn’t here.  Here they are, looking great.

Also in the spirit of the New Year, Lochend’s comics and graphic novels section were badly in need of a re-arrangement and a general tidy up.  Now they’re looking so much better, with the graphic novels on our right hand bookcase and the comics on the left.  This will make choosing our favourite reads so much easier.

And we’ve had such a great start to our new year of reading with some fabulous new deliveries which are in stock in the library now.  Just look at this pile of amazing books below !  These and more can be borrowed from the library and if you’re not sure what to pick, Mrs Marshall will be happy to help you.  (But I think she’d pick Finding Bear herself !)