Today, Thursday 2nd March, is World Book Day.  This annual event has been going for 20 years and Stromness Academy Library has been celebrating this for around eight years with an informal lunchtime event focused on reading extracts from favourite … Continue reading →

For the last eight weeks since the start of term, musicians and singers (pupils and staff) have been rehearsing for the school’s annual carol service at the Stromness Parish Church.  We have a lovely selection of festive tunes, traditional carols and … Continue reading →

For those entering senior years, especially 6th year, longer essays and dissertations will feature.  You will be expected to use references and produce a bibliography which meets defined standards. To help you, a guide to Referencing & Bibliography is available from … Continue reading →

So, the ever repeating cycle of a school year starts again.  This Librarian, after 24 years (is it really that long) is  already up and running welcoming old and new pupils and staff alike to the library.  The summer proved … Continue reading →

We will soon be welcoming P7s to the school for their transition days.  They will visit the library for a short time to have a look around and do a couple of activities to introduce them to the library and … Continue reading →

This year’s World Book Day was celebrated on Thursday 3rd March.  At lunchtime there was an informal gathering where we ate snacks, had hot chocolate and discussed books, as well as reading extracts.  We also had an author / title … Continue reading →

On Thursday 25th February we welcomed local illustrator. Tony O’Donnell.  He is probably best know for his work for Ivy the Terrible in The Beano in the mid 2000s (he has signed our library copies).  He has also illustrated football … Continue reading →

Well, December is here and we are on the count down to the end of term.  Not sure where the last few weeks have gone.  The library has been very busy with the usual run of English library periods and … Continue reading →

Our annual storytelling even took place on Friday 30th October at lunchtime.  The library was suitably decorated and around 30 pupils and two staff joined us over the course of lunch for some ghost stories, either read from a book … Continue reading →