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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Celebrating LGBT History Month in Bellahouston
In February we celebrated LGBT History Month in Bellahouston with our display.
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”
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.
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!!!
Lots of Newness in Bellahouston
New School Year, New S1s, New Library Layout, New Librarian, New Books!
A huge welcome to our new S1s. S1 inductions are ongoing and our library class visit timetable is up and running. We’ve been super busy at interval and lunchtimes as well.
Check out the new books that have arrived this month, including some amazing books in different languages to add to our growing collection.
Mental Health Awareness Week
Mental Health Awareness Week starts on May 9th, 2022 and we are celebrating it at Bellahouston!
What is Mental Health?
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood.
MentalHealth.gov
On display there are some of the books from the Shelf Help section, plus some fiction books which tackle mental health issues.
Also, use the Keep The Heid And Read link below to pledge 6 minutes of your time to reading on Wednesday, May 11th for Scotland’s Reading Moment!
Some other websites which may be useful:
https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/campaigns/mental-health-awareness-week
https://www.mind.org.uk/get-involved/mental-health-awareness-week/
https://www.place2be.org.uk/about-us/where-we-work/child-mental-health-support-scotland/
LGBT+ Month @ Bella
It is LGBT+ History Month at Bellahouston Academy, and to celebrate I have created a small display in the library.
One part focusses on those who fought for LGBT Rights and those who have influenced the world through their music, art and literature.
The other part features some current LGBT authors and fiction books held in the library.
Book Week Scotland @ Bella!
In the library this week you will find stories Celebrating lots of different genres and themes, such as:
Around the world Authors of colour Romance
Funny stories LGBTQ+ stories Families
Strange Lands Scary Stories Action & Adventure
Mystery & Murder Dystopian Worlds Space
If you can’t find what you’re looking for above, there are loads more suggestions in the link below:
https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-lists
Happy Reading!
Book Week Scotland at Bella!
Book Week Scotland runs from November 16th to 22nd 2020. This year is obviously going to be a bit different from the norm, but that hasn’t stopped me from doing a poster! This year’s theme is “Future” so I looked at Science Fiction and possible visions of the future.
I have also created a FlipBook showing some of the Science Fiction books available in the library. The link is below and feel free to have a browse.
https://www.flipbookpdf.net/web/site/22c9f012c7b17341efd07f67deb83b7e1cb117ae202011.pdf.html
There are also lots of online resources and events provided by the Scottish Book trust around Book Week Scotland, the link is below.
https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/book-week-scotland/events/2020
Happy Reading!
