Create a story with Dekkocomics

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Hello readers,

Last January, our school was successful in receiving a great economical support from the First Minister’s Reading Challenge – Creative Workshop Fund. Yey!

This has made our wish – to boost our pupils’ creative writing confidence – true! As in the best stories, there have been some issues; once on top of everything a massive national lockdown!

No worries though, our team was extremely committed to offer the best to our learners… Several phone calls and Teams meeting after, we were able to arrange four (yes, F-O-U-R!) sessions with Rossie Stone from Dekkocomics!

Yesterday we had our second session and we have seen our pupils’ engagement grew massively! Rossie has inspired us to always do our best, and that an easy way to do it is to find the enjoyable side of what we are doing. Our pupils felt confident enough to write and draw their own beautiful stories! To give you and idea, these are some of the stories we have had: a football team playing in the Ibrox stadium, a young person learning the importance of rules, and a young dancer following her dream.

What’s next?

We still have two more sessions to go, and we really hope that at least one of them will be in person. And then… Our wonderful pupils’ stories will be pulled together and printed in a book for them to take home!

So far, we couldn’t be any prouder of our young people for the resilience they shown undertaking a series of online webinars. We also want to express our deep gratitude to all the school staff who has been involved and to the Fist Minister’s Reading Challenge for giving us this opportunity.

Hopefully, we will be able to share more about this project later on!

The Week of World Book Day 2021

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World Book Day 2021 took place on Thursday 4 March. But Glasgow’s School Librarians decided to celebrate it all week long. I’ve collected everything we put together in this blog post. I hope you enjoy it!

£1 Book Tokens

Every year, you can get books for free with a £1 book token. Your English teachers have some of the book tokens, but you can also get them at the library once you’re back in  school. Because of lockdown, the tokens are also available to download this year. Go to the Library Team, to the General Channel, and read the post It’s World Book Day! You can read more about the books at this link: https://www.worldbookday.com/books/.

Guess the Shelf Competition

You have until the end of the day on Wednesday 10 March to email the librarian your guesses for the Guess the Shelf competition. The bookshelves belong to staff across Lourdes Secondary – some are from their homes, others are from their classrooms. Can you guess who owns which shelf? Good luck! https://bit.ly/3rlbvDQ.

What do School Librarians Like to Read?

The theme of World Book Day 2021 is Share A Story. So the Glasgow School Librarians came together on Teams last week to share their current reads. We put our recommendations together in a flip book, with help from library pets and cuddly toys. Which ones have you read? https://bit.ly/38ictcc.

A Week of World Book Day Flipbooks

The librarian at Bellahouston Academy and Rosshall Academy made five flip books celebrating the themes in all the £1 books available for World Book Day, one for every day of the week. You’ll find lots of information, book lists, and some quizzes to test yourselves.

Day1: https://online.flipbuilder.com/kczr/sjce/. Some World Book Day books are about the environment, so if you’re passionate about saving the earth, this is the flipbook for you.

Day 2: https://online.flipbuilder.com/kczr/byid/. Like science-fiction and superheroes? You should read this flipbook to get some new book recommendations.

Day 3: https://online.flipbuilder.com/kczr/pefh/.  This flipbook is a homage to all things detective and crime. You’ll discover famous literary detectives who have been around for decades and the new generations of young detectives.

Day 4: https://online.flipbuilder.com/kczr/oivi/. This particular flipbook about Fantasy fiction was partially inspired by the adventures of the School Librarians D&D Group.

Day 5: https://online.flipbuilder.com/kczr/nzcg/. We’re ending the week with a celebration of the football books available from your school library.

 

Teams Can Come True

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Hello!

Bored? Lockdown 2 blues? Reading, listening to music, keeping active and in contact can all help us to relax.

I’ve set up a Teams Page: Lochend Library Club. You’ll find various eResource guides to get access to free eBooks, music, magazines and audio books on your iPad. I’ve also included some booklists in case you’re stuck for what to read next. In the coming days, weeks, months I’ll be adding various activities to the page. There is an ‘Ask the Librarian’ channel too for any queries you have. Please be kind! 🙂

If you would like the code to join, please email me at gw17clarkepamela@glow.sch.uk

 

Stay safe and happy reading!

Teams Can Come True

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Hello!

Bored? Lockdown 2 blues? Reading, listening to music, keeping active and in contact can all help us to relax.

I’ve set up a Teams Page: All Saints Library Club. You’ll find various eResource guides to get access to free eBooks, music, magazines and audio books on your iPad. I’ve also included some booklists in case you’re stuck for what to read next. In the coming days, weeks, months I’ll be adding various activities to the page. There is an ‘Ask the Librarian’ channel too for any queries you have. Please be kind! 🙂

If you would like the code to join, please email me at gw17clarkepamela@glow.sch.uk

 

Stay safe and happy reading!

How to use Libby – a short video

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Dear readers,

This is a short video on how to use one of the Glasgow Libraries apps: Libby.

If you need any help with it your (school) librarian will be able to help you! Special thanks to Ms Sferrazzo and Mr Wason for their help and suggestions!

Happy Reading!

Book Week Scotland @ JPA Library

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Book Week Scotland is always an exciting time in any library, and especially welcome in 2020! We weren’t able to celebrate in the library as we normally would (such as last years Books and Bubbles Party!) but there was still plenty happening over the week online!

The theme of Book Week Scotland this year was ‘Future’, which inspired some of the activities we had during the week.  While pupils weren’t able to come to the library and see our BWS display, featuring books set in the future, pupils were able to browse a virtual display!  These virtual displays have helped to bring the library to pupils digitally, and Book Week Scotland was a great opportunity to show off what the library has to offer!  That being said, looking at the books, the future would appear to be… unwelcoming…

The library also hosted a competition throughout November, inviting all pupils to share their stories of the future! There were some great responses, with top stories published in our December newsletter.  Much like our ‘future’ fiction, our pupils envisage a bleak future for us all…

Book Week Scotland is a great time to get more involved in reading and writing, so pupils were given the opportunity to check out author talks, featuring some of their favourite authors such as David Walliams, Liz Pichon and Malorie Blackman!  The great news is that these videos are available all year from Authors Live on Demand, which means pupils will always have the opportunity to learn more about their favourite books from their favourite authors (which is my way of saying if you haven’t checked it out yet – you should!)

The biggest hit of the week was our JPA Big Book Quiz!  With a £10 National Book Token up for grabs, and a new round of the quiz every day, our pupils were quick to test their bookish knowledge throughout the week!  The quiz rounds covered book covers (image), first lines, movie adaptations, blurbs and emoji titles!  Lots of pupils entered, making for a fierce competition, ultimately won by S1 pupil Shrika with a very impressive score of 26/30 points, narrowly beating the competition to win the prize! It was wonderful to see how well our pupils know their books!

Hopefully in the future – or rather, next year – we can celebrate Book Week Scotland in the library again.  Either way, the Big Book Quiz will definitely be making a comeback in 2021, so start your preparations now and READ! READ! READ!