Book Week Scotland took place from Monday 19 – Sunday 25 November 2018. We are dedicated to promoting reading for pleasure and we enjoyed the excuse to drop everything and read!
Here are just some of the great events that took place over Book Week Scotland:
- The English department ran a sponsored Readathon for all S1-S2 pupils.
- S1 and S2 pupils who we made significant progress in reading, are avid readers or have shown signs of sustained effort in Literacy attended the ‘Book Bistro’ where they read as they sipped hot chocolate with marshmallows.
- the winners of our ‘Rebel’ creative writing contest were announced with Sarah in S1 and Hannah in S2 declared the winners. Robert and Mason (S1) and the Chelsea and Chelsea (S2) were runners up.
- Comic Book Club talked about some of our excellent Scottish comic book and graphic novelists.
- We hosted a ‘Drop Everything and Read’ event across the school where pupils were encouraged to read books, comics, revision notes, class textbooks … the aim was to get as many pupils reading in as many subjects as possible whilst learning at the same time.
- There was also be a reading lunch for S3-S6 in the library at lunchtime.
- Staff were treated to copies of the free “Rebel” short story collection produced by the Scottish Book Trust.
- The week ended with a special Scottish book group meeting at lunchtime.
