The senior pupil volunteers turned elves for the season, and took their assigned task of decorating the Library for Christmas very seriously this year, and we ended up with three trees, one traditional (see below), two more booky.
The S6 pupils above are just some of the senior volunteers who spend at least one period a week helping out in the Library. In addition to their decorating duties, they also worked on selecting books from among the weeded Library stock, so that they can be included in the school’s Christmas hampers which are sent out to families in the local community. The younger Library elves also got involved in this work, prepping the books for being put in the hampers.
There’s a been a bit of experimentation on the Library Christmas Tree front this year! In addition to the more traditional tree (this year with extra elves), we created a second tree out of books in the Library collections. It really was surprising to find just how many green books there were on the Library shelves when I started looking for them. The addition of a few printed baubles and star, and it really does look the part.