{"id":697,"date":"2019-10-31T10:28:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T10:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/?p=697"},"modified":"2024-06-11T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T13:44:00","slug":"october-2019-roundup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/2019\/10\/31\/october-2019-roundup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"October 2019 Roundup – St Margaret Mary’s Secondary School Library"},"content":{"rendered":"

National Poetry Day:\u00a0\u00a0<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0National Poetry Day<\/a> \u2013 an annual UK-wide celebration of poetry now on its 25th<\/sup> year. This year\u2019s theme is \u2018Truth\u2019. We\u2019ve handed out FREE official\u00a0National Poetry Day postcards<\/a>. As it\u2019s the UNESCO Year of Indigenous Languages<\/a>, the featured \u2018truth\u2019 poems are written in Manx, Cornish, Welsh, Scots, and Gaelic alongside their English translations.\u00a0We\u2019re also promoting these amazing YA titles written in verse. Download the list here: Books in Verse Reading List<\/a><\/p>\n

Participatory Workshops:\u00a0<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Over the course of October, the Library worked with various S2-S4 English classes on selecting books for the library. This year\u2019s emphasis is on acquiring more accessible stock that will appeal to a broad range of readers. We targeted publishers Barrington Stoke and Badger Learning websites.<\/p>\n

Barrington Stoke<\/u> <\/a>is a Scottish company who publishes books written by well-known authors that are suitable for different types of readers using specially designed dyslexia-friendly font and layout as well as printing the text on cream paper to reduce glare. The stories are short length than standard novels and designed for Reading Ages and Interest Ages. The language is specially edited to improve accessibility.<\/p>\n

Badger Learning<\/u><\/a> is a UK-based publisher who specialise in shorter length fiction for Young People. Like Barrington Stoke, stories are designed for Reading Ages and Interest Ages. Teen Reads<\/a>, Two Sides,<\/a> and YA Reads<\/a><\/u> are different series published by Badger that includes a range of genres and themes.<\/p>\n

Classes logged onto the Library\u2019s PCs and were guided through the websites by the Librarian. Pupils were instructed peruse the titles and features of the website then list what books they thought would be good for the Library to stock. The Librarian correlated the data. See February\u2019<\/u>s post for the results.\u00a0Pupils found the activity fun and made them feel included in the decision making of the Library<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Bookopoly \u2013St Oswalds:\u00a0<\/u><\/strong>The Library has been working with St Oswald\u2019s English Department as part of the school\u2019s FMRC. Bookopoly has been rolled out to all St Oswald\u2019s pupils. This reading challenge encourages participants to explore genres and non-fiction subjects. Pupils are given their Bookopoly board. Each \u2018property\u2019 (or, \u2018genre\u2019) is colour coded on the board. Participants must read two books per genre (or one non-fiction book per subject) to collect their genre badge and have their name put into the end of the year prize draw. Further chances to win can be achieved by completing a \u2018Chance\u2019 block. This could be a recommendation from the teacher, the Librarian, a book that\u2019s over 300 pages, etc. Participants can record their progress and opinion on the books they\u2019ve read on the back of their Bookopoly board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

National Poetry Day:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0National Poetry Day \u2013 an annual UK-wide celebration of poetry now on its 25th year. This year\u2019s theme is \u2018Truth\u2019. We\u2019ve handed out FREE official\u00a0National Poetry Day postcards. As it\u2019s the UNESCO Year of Indigenous Languages, the featured \u2018truth\u2019 poems are written in Manx, Cornish, Welsh, Scots, and Gaelic alongside their English translations.\u00a0We\u2019re […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-margaret-marys-secondary-school"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","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\/17454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4529,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions\/4529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/gccschoollibraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}