The football books requests have started coming in and no doubt they will be popular in the library… taking bets on how long before the shelf will be empty again! 
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Cleveden & Book Week Scotland
Book Club is Back!
In collaboration with the English Department, we have brought back the S1 book club in the Cleveden school library. This is the opportunity for pupils to chat about the books they have been borrowing from the library or they have been reading in class. We used paper fortune tellers with question prompts inside it to spark the conversation about recent favourite reads. The book “Ghost Boys” by Jewell Parker Rhodes was a hit with the boys, who found its plot very engaging and interesting!
We Had a Scholastic Book Fair for Book Week Scotland!
Pupils enjoyed finding new books at the Scholastic Book Fair during Lunch which coincided with Book Week Scotland. It was a good opportunity for pupils to own a book also thanks to some vouchers!
New Books in Cleveden!
As we have met all the new S1, they really enjoy our new books – so this display changes rather regularly. Here is the latest version!
Plans for 2024 at Cleveden
2023 was one of the most eventful years yet at Cleveden and the Library Assistants have been busy in January planning how to make the library even better in 2024:
‘I love working in the library, it’s usually so peaceful and chill. In 2024. In 2024, I’m going to work on making the library more relaxing because it can get a bit crazy sometimes’ HT (S2)
‘I love working in the library, it gives me a sense of comfort when other things get too much. I like the library’s peacefulness. Putting books in order and putting them on the shelf keeps me more active than PE! I like the sounds the books make when I put them on the shelf so in 2024 I hope to do that more often’ LL (S2)
‘The library is an amazing place and I still enjoy working as an assistant. In 2024, I plan to work on making more creative posters and displays and to keep asking Colin for more jobs to improve my skills as an assistant because I am proud to be part of the library!’ AW (S2)
‘I love when the library at my school is open because when our librarian is here I have someone to talk to. I wish it was open more. Working in the library gives me the opportunity to take on lots of responsibilities, I would like to do more book sorting and labelling in 2024 because I don’t like when the shelfs get messed up. And it’s so obvious that the more work we do, the better our treat/pay is on a Tuesday. Hopefully Cake Pops for writing this?’ KC (S2)
Words That Burn
Pupils from S2 at Cleveden have taken part in their first session of the Amnesty International project Words That Burn. After an introduction to the work of Amnesty International and a discussion around what human rights meant to them, the pupils attempted the Make a Difference in a Minute challenge: Creating a poem that can be performed in a minute or under in response to the theme of human rights.
Invoking their right to freedom of expression, the pupils performed in a brief poetry slam with spoken word pieces (and a full-on rap!!!) focussing on women’s rights, education inequality and bearing witness. It was refreshing to see an awareness of major issues and even better to hear a willingness to use creative solidarity to protest and speak truth to human rights violations.
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Welcome to the Cleveden Secondary School Library blog! Here you’ll find information about events/activities taking place in the Library, pupil and Librarian book reviews, reading lists, and all things school library related!
