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June@ Castlemilk Highschool Library

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Pride 2024

Every June, Pride Month celebrates the rights of LGBTQ+ people in societies all around the world. Pride brings awareness to the LGBTQ+ community and the history of people’s fight for equal rights. 

We have loads of books that can help you learn more about LGBTQ+ cultural and history. Or why not read a book by an LGBTQ+ author this month? Browse our Pride collect on Padlet and visit the library to collect your next read.  

Dungeons & Dragons

On Fridays afternoons, pupils in S1-S3 have the opportunity to take part in lots of different activities as part of the Wider Achievement program. For the summer term, the library hosted a beginners Dungeons & Dragons group. Pupils spent a few sessions building their characters, choosing their skills and inventing backstories. We ended up with elves, druids, halflings, and lots of Dragonborn. Then we were ready to play! Big thank you to our star pupil Payton, who was our D&D oracle and lead everyone through some very exciting trap-filled adventures.

New New New

We also got some great new books, just in tie for the holidays. Here’s a wee sample of top picks in fantasy, sci-fi and the supernatural. All of these are available now from the school library.

 

St Paul’s at Christmas Time

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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 🙂

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!