{"id":1446,"date":"2021-05-24T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2021-05-24T13:01:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T13:01:22","slug":"celebrating-our-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/2021\/05\/24\/celebrating-our-cultures\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating our different cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Hello readers,<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0April<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> has marked the beginning of our EAL Reading project, supported by the\u00a0<span class=\"mark6yswylbn0\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Scottish<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"mark3xrbeg8lc\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">Gov<\/span>ernment School Library Improvement Fund.\u00a0 We are one of the many Glasgow school libraries taking part, guided by the wonderful Ms DeLeavey &#8211; librarian at St Margaret Mary Secondary School and Shawlands Academy \u2013 who has tirelessly been working on it.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">As school librarians we have also taken part diverse and very informative training by different stakeholders, such as the Glasgow City Council EAL Unit and the Scottish Refugee Library.\u00a0 This <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">solid basis, and the support of Mr Gibson &#8211; Knightswood Secondary School EAL teacher &#8211; has given Ms Spaltro the right incentive to start the reading club with a group of S2 pupils. 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A great reading for those who seek to know more about Scottish culture and countryside.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1450 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2021\/05\/24125716\/book-for-blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"206\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Our weekly schedule looks like this: reading group on Wednesdays, and Culture Vulture on Thursdays at lunch, open to everyone. The topics of the club meetings have been: favourite place in Glasgow, different idioms compared, and Fashion in different countries.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thus far, the pupils&#8217; commitment has been outstanding, but this was only a small part of the whole project. Stay tuned to know what&#8217;s boiling in the pot &#8211; as we say in Italy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello readers,\u00a0 \u00a0April has marked the beginning of our EAL Reading project, supported by the\u00a0Scottish\u00a0Government School Library Improvement Fund.\u00a0 We are one of the many Glasgow school libraries taking part, guided by the wonderful Ms DeLeavey &#8211; librarian at St Margaret Mary Secondary School and Shawlands Academy \u2013 who has tirelessly been working on it.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17462,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,19],"tags":[109,108,99],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-knightswood-secondary-school","tag-eal","tag-eal-reading-project","tag-library-clubs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}