Author Archives: Miss Liveston

Lockwood and Co.

Lockwood and Co is an excellent book where ghosts have been around forever. But 50 years ago the epidemic started where ghosts started to become more and more  frequent. If a ghost touches you die.
For the 1st 10 years no one had any idea how to beat them and to make matters worse only children could see them. Then some children discovered silver iron  running water salt and
lavender repelled them and there was one object (typically there body) that if you cover in one of the above(things that ward of ghosts) the ghost don’t appear and if you burn their earthly possession they disappear forever. Since children are the only ones who can see them people pay them to rid there homes of ghosts.
Recommended by Ben P7b

Book Week Scotland 2023

We have had a busy, fun and exciting week celebrating Book Week Scotland! Thank you to all of our Reading Ambassadors, from P1-7, who shared wonderful and creative ideas for ways in which we could celebrate this week.

Hyndland’s Favourite Favourite Scottish Picture Book

Each class from P1-7 read ‘Katie Morag and the Tiresome Ted’, ‘Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy’, Phantom the ginger mog an  the Dreamy Pie Pauchle’ and ‘There was a Wee Lassie who Swallowed a Midge’. Pupils voted today for their favourite book and the winner with 166 votes was… ‘There was a Wee Lassie who Swallowed a Midge’. 

Scavenger Hunt

On Wednesday the P7a Reading Ambassadors organised a P1-3 and P4-7 Scavenger Hunt. This involved pupils finding pictures of books in the playground, answers questions and collecting letters each time they got the answer correct. They then had to unscramble the letters to make a title of a book. P1-3’s answer was Dogman and P4-7’s was The Wonder Brothers.

We had 1 winner from each stage who each got to choose a book of their choice as a prize.

Well done to P7a for fantastic leadership and organisation skills!

 

Second-hand Book Fair

P7b Reading Ambassadors organised a second-hand book fair, which went down a treat! Thank you for all of your kind book donations; our pupils were spoiled for choice! Each class visited and our Reading Ambassadors across the school were kept busy organising and selling books. Well done for your super organisation, leadership and entrepreneurial skills, P7b Reading Ambassadors!

 

Dress up! 

It is wonderful to see so many pupils in costume, reading or in their casual clothes today, reading away!

 

Thank you for all of your support with our activities this week. The Reading Ambassadors have worked very hard to make it a fun and enjoyable week for all. We are very pleased to announce that we have raised £435.63! All money raised will go towards our Library Development Funds, helping us to purchase new shelving, soft furnishings, lighting, as well as continuing to purchase new books for the space.

‘The Graveyard Book’ by Neil Gaiman

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

This book is crazy, scary, a little bit funny, sad all at once, which is normal for the bestselling author, Neil Gaiman.

The Graveyard Book is about a young man called Nobody Owens, also known as Bod.

The thing about Bod was that he lived in a graveyard and ghosts raised and educated him, until a girl called Scarlett told him about everything outside of the graveyard and now that he knows about the outside world, he wants to leave.

The problem is… His butler won’t let him.

DUN  DUN  DUUUUUUUUN!

Recommendation by Ana, P7