We are now five weeks into the new session. Everyone has settled back to the routing of the school day after the summer holidays. The library is fairly busy with class bookings and the usual regulars before school and at lunchtime. Our new S1 pupils are starting to use the library for leisure purposes too.

As October draws near we start thinking about two of our established annual events: Poetry Picnic (National Poetry Day) on Thursday 2nd October, and Spooky Happenings (Hallowe’en storytelling) on a date to be arranged after the October holidays. Further details will be available in the daily bulletin.

A proposed new venture, is to set up an award shadowing group for the Scottish Children’s Book Award. In the first instance, registration has been done and a copy of each of the books on the list has been ordered. Next steps will be putting out feelers to see who is interested and then we will get reading. This is a chance for our young people to vote for the best book.

Later in the year, will also shadow the Stan Lee Excelsior Award for Graphic Novels and Manga. This will be our third year doing this.

In the meantime, plans are afoot to run our second Magic the Gathering competition at lunchtimes, the pupils do most of the organisation of this. Other ideas for activities and events always considered.

Finally, a blatant plug for the school librarian through this article recently spotted on the Guardian website:

Don’t overlook your school librarian, they’re the unsung heroes of literacy