Our Duke of Edinburgh Volunteers have been doing fantastic work, promoting books and reading, creating book displays, organising fun activities, along with regular admin tasks like adding books to stock.
Milly in S3 has always been an avid reader.
Milly Recommends:
“Percy Jackson is a fantasy book based on Greek mythology. It’s a story about a boy who discovered he is a demigod (half god and half human) he gets sent to this camp for demigods where he finds out that monsters are after demigods, He gets sent out on a dangerous quest. These books are in a series of 5 AND the new tv series just came out on Disney +. If you enjoyed the descriptions, then I have donated 4/5 of the books to the library.”
New copies!
Now on Disney+
“Reading has dramatically changed my way of writing in English, I can see the difference in my writing for over the years from when I started reading. It’s also a very fun way to pass time with the right book” Milly
Celeste – helping the school community
Celeste is now in her second year of volunteering, on course for the Silver Award. She has previously created a whole new Music Section in the library, added new stock into the catalogue, and tidied and squared up the layout of the library after a busy day of classes. A highlight was assisting the Scottish Ambulance Service every week, by helping them with their equipment for the Saving Young Lives workshops. This was a huge task, and usually involved several trips up and down the lift with precious cargo of equipment. Paramedics Sharon and Frank were so impressed by Celeste’s commitment and reliability.
Amna – supporting young learners
For her Bronze Award, Amna developed skills in supporting and encouraging S1/2 library users, who often enjoyed the fun quizzes and activities she devised. This term for Silver Award, Amna came up with the idea of creating an inter-active Animal book display, with paw prints to colour in. Animals are very popular with S1, and Mr Mansefield’s class used the book display to help with research for a class project. Fun and educational !
Animal books, with paw prints
Zurie – Creative Writer and book lover
As a published author herself – with the White Water Writers’ Group – Zurie has plenty of knowledge of what makes a good book. During her volunteering time she has created book displays, and helped to keep the library catalogue up to date by adding new books, deleting old titles, and choosing books to be purchased for our Dystopian book display.
What to Read for New Year book display
Chosen by Us (S4 Writers Group), Dystopian
Filza – graphics and design specialist
Continuing onto Silver, after completing Bronze, Filza uses her design skills to make posters and whiteboard signs for special events such as Book Week Scotland, Earth Day, and the Duke of Edinburgh Awards Ceremony in December 2025. Her posters always add style to our library events.
Lucy Kane hates the uber-popular 
All Kerry wants to do is stay at home with her rom-coms and strict retainer schedule. Instead, her BFF Annie has roped her into going to their first sixth-form party to investigate who’s cyberbullying Heather, the most popular girl in school.
Meet River Langston-Lee: he’s dumped his girlfriend, walked out of his SATs, and quit his job at his parents’ Seattle cafe in spectacularly disastrous fashion – even for him.
Juliet believes girls like her – girls with arthritis – don’t get their own love stories. She exists at the edges of her friends’ social lives, skipping parties to play online chess under a pseudonym. There, she isn’t just ‘the girl with crutches’.
After setting fire to her last summer job Imogen Rogers needs a change.So, when her best friend hooks her up with a gig at Fairytale Gardens, she grabs the opportunity with both hands!Too bad it means working with Tristian Walton – the owner’s son – who is as grumpy as he is handsome.
Lunar and his misfit crew of fellow orphans live on Mars, scavenging for scraps in a wasteland ravaged by wars and storms. Lunar knows all the legends about dragons, but survival is his only priority. Until one day, a salvaging mission goes dangerously wrong.
International Mother Language Day
Volunteers Iman, Amany, Roya, Rose and Kah Jun have been working hard to get ready for our Pop Up Library at St Roch’s Cultural Diversity Event in February. They have chosen and collected books representing authors/characters from all around the world. Lots of effort is going into decorating the library stand too- we can’t wait to see it on the day. 
They labelled the books with a ‘Recommended by Us’ slip, as this works well in bookshops, and we like to guide readers to choose books that they will love.
