{"id":3327,"date":"2024-01-17T22:19:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T22:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/?p=3327"},"modified":"2024-01-18T09:14:15","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T09:14:15","slug":"special-guests-at-holyrood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/2024\/01\/17\/special-guests-at-holyrood\/","title":{"rendered":"Special guests at Holyrood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We love having visitors to the School Library. In December, we welcomed poet <strong>Tawona Sithole<\/strong> who led a creative writing workshop for S1\/S2, involving music, games, drama- with some amazing acting skills on show, and writing our own stories. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3328 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2024\/01\/17213420\/BlogjanTawona-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2024\/01\/17213420\/BlogjanTawona-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2024\/01\/17213420\/BlogjanTawona.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Our young writers were very inspired, and supported each other by listening attentively as each group read their story out to the audience. Everyone had a great time, and we hope to see Tawona for another visit sometime soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3329\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2024\/01\/17213719\/blogjantawona3-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2024\/01\/17213719\/blogjantawona3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2024\/01\/17213719\/blogjantawona3.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This event was supported by the Scottish Government School Library Improvement Fund.<\/p>\n<p>We continue to enjoy our <strong>Writing for Fun<\/strong> lunchtime club. Our new theme for January is poetry and we hope to write some\u00a0 poems about &#8216;things that make\u00a0 us happy&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Fiona Haddow from the Mitchell Library visited us to lead a Focus Group. We looked through a selection of books she had brought, and chatted about which authors we would most like to meet. Our young people felt very honoured to have this chance, as Fiona will use these opinions to help shape the programme for the<strong> \u2018Wee Write\u2019 Book Festival<\/strong>. This is a brilliant celebration of reading, where Glasgow Libraries brings authors directly into schools, and also holds events, including Family days, at the Mitchell Library.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3330\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2024\/01\/17221030\/fionahaddow1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2024\/01\/17221030\/fionahaddow1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2024\/01\/17221030\/fionahaddow1.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3332\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2024\/01\/17221125\/Fionahaddow2-1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2024\/01\/17221125\/Fionahaddow2-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/gccschoollibraries\/uploads\/sites\/10968\/2024\/01\/17221125\/Fionahaddow2-1.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well done to our S2\/S3 Focus Group. We really enjoyed speaking to Fiona, hearing about Wee Write, and everyone loved their thank you gifts of books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love having visitors to the School Library. In December, we welcomed poet Tawona Sithole who led a creative writing workshop for S1\/S2, involving music, games, drama- with some amazing acting skills on show, and writing our own stories. 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