Category Archives: St Paul’s High School

News from St Paul’s

September was a busy month!

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.

New Books

Lots of exciting new books delivered for our lovely pupils to choose from.

Lovely new books!

New Displays

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 πŸ˜†

It’s new. It’s stuff. Read it.

Author Visit

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.

 

 

 

March in St Paul’s

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 😊

World Book Day 2024

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 πŸ₯°

Winners of the scavenger hunt

Big Book Quiz

Easter Basket Winner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Author Visits

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

 

January in St Paul’s

Happy New Year and welcome to the first blog post of 2024 πŸ₯³

New Furniture πŸ›‹οΈ

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 πŸ“š

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 πŸ“œ

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

 

St Paul’s at Christmas Time

It’s Chriiiiiiiistmaaaaaas!

“Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the library
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
Because the prelims were on..”

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 πŸ™‚

We tried

Staff Borrow Box

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!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parent/Carers Book Recommendations

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

 

St Paul’s Library Wish you all a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!