It is that time of year when streets, shops, houses and our classrooms have become festooned in festive lights and decorations and today it was the school library’s turn.

At the beginning of period 3, a second year class arrived for their library period and were tasked with making a start on decorating the library. The main priority was the 4 (or 5, depending how you want to cound them) trees of varying sizes. Two groups set to decorating them, and the rest of the class had fun with paper chains, glitter, colouring in and making snowflakes. Over the course of the next few days the library decorations may well multiply.

Your erstwhile librarian, though, had managed to forget in all the Xmas fervour, despite the clear booking in the diary, that a research class was due in to the library. With a moment of intitial panic on how to accomodate two completely different types of activity, the decision was made to allow the S1 History class to use the Upper Library, normally the domain of senior pupils, as well as the computer area. There were also a few S6 AH English pupils in the Senior Fiction section working on their writing. The pupils all managed to focus on their particular activity or work very well and there was a lovely atmosphere in the place.