Following a successful Live Literature bid through the Scottish Book Trust, Airdrie Academy welcomed author Gill Arbuthnott to the school library. Gill braved the cold winter weather to inspire our readers and budding creative writers. During the first session of the morning a group of S2 English pupils learned more about the creative writing process and where stories come from. Many of our pupils had already read one of Gill’s books, “Dark Spell” (shortlisted for the Scottish Children’s Book Awards 2015), so found it fascinating to hear where Gill got a lot of her ideas from.

Gill Arbuthnott also writes non-fiction for children. She passionately believes that science should be fascinating and has written a collection of popular science books which help make science easy to understand and interesting. The second session of the morning allowed some of our S1 Science classes to be treated to an interactive session on The Brain.

The thrill of having an author visiting the library was evident by the many very interesting questions pupils asked Gill.

A selection of fiction and non-fiction books written by Gill Arbuthnott are available for loan in the school library.