In November some of our pupils helped to select books for the library through a participatory budgeting session. Pupils were asked to select from a range of books including non-fiction,  fiction, junior books and young adult books. The focus was on books with strong female protagonists, books depicting positive female friendships and books tackling issues such as misogyny and gender based violence. This theme was chosen to tie in with the goals of the school. A massive thanks to all the BGE and Senior pupils who helped to choose the books. The order for our new books has been sent and we are now awaiting delivery. Look out for a display of these books when they arrive.

We had lots of fun in Rosshall for Book Week Scotland. There were so many entries for the, ‘Guess How Many Pages in the Book’ competition so well done to our S1 pupil who won with her guess of 2372(!). The bookmark competition deadline has been extended. Watch this space…

Our new Lunchtime Library Helpers have been really busy, helping to create some wonderful displays.

After a lick of paint for the library, what better way to celebrate than rearranging our non-fiction! It should now be easier to find the books you want.

October is now the official month of displays – and we’re not even half way through!

National Poetry Day

Black History Month

And our Halloween display is a work in progress. The poor deflated pumpkin! 

Watch this spooooky space….

Just a small selection of our new books below. A new book list is ready and raring to go so expect some more new books very soon. Some brilliant requests and suggestions from our new S1s have been added to the list.

A big welcome to our new S1 cohort and a big welcome back to everyone else!

In August all the S1s participated in their library inductions and received their school library cards. It was great to see how keen they are to use the library and to hear about their favourite genres (more of which below)…

Over the summer the fiction has been rearranged by genre to make it easier to find your favourite books. Judging by the book issues so far, I’ll be looking to buy in more Romance, Spooky & Scary and Thriller & Mystery.

We had a wonderful delivery of new books from Waterstones.

I also visited the School Library Outreach department in the Mitchell Library and sourced some amazing non-fiction titles to add to our collection. Watch this space.

Our application for the Scottish Book Trust’s Danielle Jawando tour has been sent. Fingers crossed!

https://www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-authors/scottish-friendly-childrens-book-tour/tour-danielle-jawando

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!

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.