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.
Rosshall – Non-Fiction
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A Display-tastic October
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….
Bellahouston – Library Poll
We’ve introduced a new weekly library poll (thanks to Ms Sferrazzo in Knightswood for the idea!).
A Display-tastic October
October is officially the month of displays in Bellahouston.
National Poetry Day
Black History Month
Some spooooky booooks for Halloween
Silver Reading Schools – St Paul’s
Silver Reading Schools Award!
St Paul’s has been awarded the Scottish Book Trust’s Silver Reading Schools status 🥈 We could not have achieved this without the hard work of our Senior Ambassadors, teachers and staff. The work for Gold starts now! 🥇
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 😆
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.
September in Hyndland
New Additions this September!
September has seen a number of new additions to the library. 🥳
New Books!
We have had a few deliveries this month and now have lots of great new titles to choose from. The Friday Finishers created this awesome display incorporating lots of lovely new stock 🥰
Some of our new titles
Friday Finishers display
Dungeons and Dragons 🧌 🧙♂️
There are 2 new D&D clubs up and running in Hyndland. The Tuesday Club have embraced the D20 and started their own campaign. It’s been running for a few weeks now and going well.
Tuesday library club starting their campaign
On a Thursday after school the seniors are running their own club which is open to all. If you would like to join just come along to the library at 2:45, everyone is welcome. 👋
Bookmarked – Library Highlights from September
Our first full month back in school has flown by in the library! Here’s some of the highlights of what’s been happening:
First of all, LOTS OF READING.
An overflowing Returns Box, overseen by our mascot, Eduardo The Great and Magical III, has become a regular sight in the library! The new S1 are really stuck into reading this year, and it’s been fantastic to see!
Lots of clubs!
As mentioned in our previous blog, all of our new clubs started this year! We’ve been watching Alice in Wonderland for Movie Mondays, enjoying some quiet time during Read and Relax, battling monsters and poor dice rolls in Dungeons and Dragons, and trying to learn to crochet (admittedly a work-in-progress!). The D&D club has become so popular, we’ve had to start playing a spin-off version for anyone who didn’t make the main campaign called Dungeon Games – all the fun of D&D combat in a Hunger Games style setting. May the odds be ever in your favour!
Lots of new books!
We’ve received lots of great new books this month, including a fantastic selection of football books and a full set of horrible histories. All of the football books shown in the picture below were claimed in just a few days – we have lots of footy fans in the school!
Finally, lots of opinions!
Every week in the library we have a new bookish themed poll and it’s been great to see so many pupils taking part. You can check out all of the responses here:
Keep an eye on our twitter page for more regular updates, or check out the latest edition of Swatch: Glasgow School Libraries eMagazine for all the best bookish news and updates.
Thanks for reading!
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!
September 2024 Round up – Whitehill Secondary School Library
With the Library back into full swing after last month’s S1 Library inductions, it has been one of the busiest months to date! We’ve issued over 500 books alone to our BGE pupils.
New Book Highlights:
The New Girl by Cassandra Calin
Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed
Kismat Connection by Ananya Devarajan
Book of the Day:
03.09: Who Killed the Homecoming Queen? By RL Stine
05.09: The Honeys by Ryan la Sala
10.09: You Think You Know Me by Ayaan Mohamud
12.09: The Haunting of Tyrese Walker by JP Rose
17.09: Salah Rules by Simon Mugford
19.09: Next Level Games Review 2024 by Ben Wilson
24.09: Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao
Author of the Week:
WB 2nd: Bali Rai
WB 9th: Cath Howe
WB 16th: MG Leonard
WB 23rd: Nic Stone
Series of the Week:
WB 2nd: Agent Zaiba Investigates by Annabelle Sami
WB 9th: Soul by Chris Bradford
WB 16th: Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas
WB 23rd: Garvie Smith Mysteries by Simon Mason
Literary and Cultural Celebration Book Lists for September:
East and South East Asian Heritage Month: September is East and South East Asian (ESEA) Heritage Month with the aim to celebrate and honour people of ESEA heritage and their culture, and everything in between.
Trending Book Lists:
Epic Reads New Releases | The Guardian Children’s Book Roundup | LoveReading4Kids Books of the Month | Scholastic Books of the Month | Scottish Book Trust Book Lists |Toppsta Monthly Highlights | Waterstones Books of the Month
Recent Awards: UK book award winners, shortlists, and longlists
Winners: Klaus Flugge Prize, McIlvanney Prize Scottish Crime Book of the Year, Wainwright Prize, The Week Junior Book Awards
Shortlist: Booker Prize
Longlist: UKLA Book Award
Book Buzz: Latest book news from major media outlets and websites
BBC | Book Riot | Buzzfeed | Epic Reads | The Guardian | Huffpost
