Bellshill Academy Library Resource Centre

Librarian: Ms Boyd

February 1, 2021
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Mental health

It is Children’s Mental Health Week this week and the theme is Express yourself. “Expressing yourself is about finding ways to share feelings, thoughts, or ideas, through creativity. This could be through art, music, writing and poetry, dance and drama, photography and film, and doing activities that make you feel good“.

What activities are you going to do this week?

If reading makes you feel good, take some time to read a book, paper, magazine or listen to an audiobook. Remember that studies show that reading improves your mental well-being! Look under the Reading section of this website or on the Library Teams page for suggestions and information to access ebooks for free.

The Wellbeing section has also been updated with links to online resources for support.

January 26, 2021
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Free online comics

If you’re a fan of comics, have a look at the links below. These comics are free to read online:

  • Marvel Comics : Marvel is offering free access to selected whole issues to read on their website.
  • DC Comics : free access to some issues are available through their app.
  • Comic Republic : immerse yourself in the worlds of African superheroes in these online comics.
  • SupaStrikas is a football-themed comic (and animation) about a fictional team. Supa Strikas FC are the best team in their league – if not the world! You can read the latest issue for free.
  • Moose Kids Comics are 36 page, free to read digital comics that feature over 40 artists. Funny, original, colourful and surreal, they are free to read online. 
  • The Beano : this is the world’s longest running weekly comic and every month you can read a “Golden Beano” for free. Selected from their archives, it has comic strips, puzzles and jokes from over 80 years. You can also find more comic strips from the Beano here.

January 25, 2021
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The girl who stole an elephant

You read or listen to The girl who stole an elephant online for free for the next week.

Chaya, a no-nonsense, outspoken hero, leads her friends and a gorgeous elephant on a noisy, fraught, joyous adventure through the jungle where revolution is stirring and leeches lurk. Will stealing the queen’s jewels be the beginning or the end of everything for the intrepid gang?

 

If you don’t have the time to read or listen to a book within a week, don’t forget that you can join North Lanarkshire’s  public library service and access their collection of ebooks, audiobooks and magazines for free – and take longer than seven days to finish something!

January 25, 2021
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Robert Burns

Tonight is Burns Night. This celebrates the anniversary of Robert Burns’ birth on 25th January each year. Find out more about Scotland’s national poet and his work in this Sway presentation (created and shared by Ms Allan at Dalziel HS):

Go to this Sway

Or coorie in and listen to this modern retelling of Burns’ Tam O’Shanter from BBC Scotland. There is also this 8-bit game from the Scottish Book Trust where Rabbie Burns saves the world!

January 20, 2021
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BBC Sounds

Need a break from your screen or even your book? Try BBC Sounds for music, audiobooks and drama. You need to register to listen and if you are under 13, you need a parent or guardian to sign up on your behalf.

Listen to Neil Gaiman’s fairytale The spindle and the sleeper or the very popular story of The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse by Charlie Mackesy if you don’t know where to start. There are lots more to listen to if neither of those appeal!

January 18, 2021
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Free book to read online

Each week, Oak National Academy is making a book available to read in their Virtual School Library. You don’t need to sign or register – you can just read the book online on your device.

This week’s book is “The story of Tracy Beaker” by Jacqueline Wilson. There is also an author video, as well as some of her recommended reads.

Have fun reading, rereading or sharing with younger family members!

January 13, 2021
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Check your facts!

If you are ever suspicious of information flying around social media, you should always do your own research to see if it is true or not. A great site to use is Snopes, which describes itself as “the internet’s definitive fact-checking resource”. Snopes uses a range of ratings against each fact checked, including true, mostly true, false, mostly false and scam, as describing a nuanced topic with one word is not always accurate. The site is often referenced by news media and is considered to be trustworthy.

Have a look at the “what’s new” and “hot 50” to see the latest information to be verified, or check @snopes on Twitter.

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