We started our Library Teams page in February to keep in touch and share book chat. All activities were organised or led by S1-3 pupils. What a fantastic time we’ve had! Thank you to everyone in our Team, both for contributing, and reading along during lockdown. Hope you all had fun!
Competitions
Our first competition, created by Zara, was ‘Create your own Character’. Our prizewinning entries came from Rose K. & Sahar (S1), and Brenna (S2).
Rose (S1)
We loved the skill shown in Rose’s drawing and how the character matched the description.
Sahar (S1)
Sahar: An excellent character and description, great imagination in choosing to make the character a villain!
Brenna (S2)
Fantastic use of description and colour in Brenna’s drawing to bring this character to life.
Our next competition idea came from Rose ‘Tell your favourite story with a Twist’. Cillian used his knowledge of Tom Gates, to come up with an alternative ending, involving Tom’s mum.
We also enjoyed making Origami bookmarks . So impressed by B. M’s bookmark:
As we’ve all been doing more cooking during lockdown, we started looking at Recipe Books.
Eman, Anna and Bilal came up with some brilliant ideas for recipes, I enjoyed trying out these ideas for a Toasted sandwich , Feta Pasta bake and Ms Longo made this great find of an easy to make version of Gulab jamun (I’ve still to try this – it looks wonderful)!
Next we shared our Favourite books. Here are some of the titles that Anna, Zara, & Abdul recommend.
Harry Potter, the Faraway Tree and Dork diaries and Percy Jackson series are also firm favourites.
Anna’s Quiz was a highlight and kept us entertained throughout an entire day. There was much discussion and we had fun trying to come up with our answers. What a brilliant quizmaster! Bilal edged a win, closely followed by Rose, Zara (and Ms Longo and I did pretty well too I’m pleased to say)! Everyone was very sporting in providing clues and congratulating one another.
Our last activity before the holiday break was ‘Re-create your favourite Book Cover’, Eman drew this stunning mosaic style version of ‘The Girl who Lost her Shadow’, which got a lovely comment from author Emily Ilett.
Thank you to Ms Longo for the wonderful video to help us access Glasgow Libraries eBooks.
https://video.link/w/CUfhc
I now can’t wait to chat to all our team members in person to say a huge well done for all your work.
Also, a big thank you to our wonderful S3 Duke of Edinburgh pupils Laraib and Fiza who helped set up the Team and continued to add advice and ideas all the way through; and thank you also to Sarah, Miya, Nida and Chantelle. We wish you every success in completing your Duke of Edinburgh challenges.
Other activities Jan – March
The Library was used as one of the Hubs for our KW pupils. It was lovely to meet colleagues from other depts. and also to see the library resources still being used for research. Our helpful pupils also took an occasional break from classwork to help me unpack and review the new books.
They also decorated our Staff CLPL Library. What wonderful artwork! We wanted to make the most of the fantastic books ordered by Miss Callan, so we made bookmarks for our teachers. Thank you Jodie for printing the bookmark templates.
We enjoyed some Easter craft activities on the last day of term.
Look forward to seeing everyone back in the Library soon. Remember : face coverings, clean hands and surfaces, and keep a good distance so that we can all stay safe!
