Fahrenheit 451

Thanks to all the seniors who came along to our Book Discussion last Thursday. It is great that so many of you are still wanting to read classic novels and this one you described as "eye-opening", "thought-provoking" and "extremely relevant." What I took away from the discussion is that the need for critical thinking is even more necessary today than ever before.   

It is good to ask questions!

Over the February holiday we will read a modern short story- details to follow. New seniors and staff welcome to join us.

Scottish Book Trust 50 word competition

Welcome back everyone. Hope you all had a great holiday and got plenty reading done. I managed 5 books. Let me know if you read more!

Have been mulling over some creative ideas to make breaktime/lunchtimes more fun. Watch out in the next  few weeks. In the meantime for the S1 pupils who have been writing their own murderous stories why not give  the 50 word competition at Scottish BookTrust a go. You have to write a short story featuring fireworks. To be submitted online by end of January. And if you give me a copy we will see what prizes we can find for our own school library prize. Full details can be found at
Scottish Book Trust website.

Mortal Engines

This book by Philip Reeve has been flying off the shelves. Thankfully we have multiple copies and the rest of the series to keep you reading! We have been watching the book trailers at breaktime on the Library Smartboard. Can't wait to see the film!

Latest news

Congratulations to Lucie who won our S1 Poetry Slam.
And mega congratulations to all those who participated.
It was incredibly impressive both the effort put into your research and your performances.

Just a reminder that we still have some Gift tags for sale- 20p for the last few remaining.

Book Week Scotland

Thanks you to all those who have taken part in the Book Week Scotland Quiz. We will continue to run it until Wednesday 28th November.

And keep the suggestions going for  your favourite "rebel" characters in fiction. We have had quite a few superheroes suggested (eg Spiderman), also suggestions from dystopian books (Tris Prior from Divergent) but my favourite so far is Feo from Katherine Rundell's Wolf Rider.

This Wednesday sees our Scottish Poetry Slam and this will conclude our Book Week Scotland events.   

Anti-Bullying Week

"If you have a choice between being right and being kind, choose kind"
Dr Wayne W. Dyer.

On Auggie's first day of school Mr Browne the teacher introduces this precept to his class.  Ten year old Auggie just wants to be normal, to be like everyone else. Inside he feels, normal, he is normal but he was born with a facial anomaly which marks him out as different. As Auggie starts school for the first time in his life he has to learn to overcome challenges, deal with bullying and what it is to have true friends. And above all we learn about kindness. So for this upcoming anti-bullying week there couldn't be a better novel to read than "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio.

Christmas Fayre

The Book Group are running a stall at the Christmas Fayre on Thursday 8th November. Pupils have worked on making lovely little Christmas gift cards. They will also be selling a small selection of books. 

Please support us by visiting our stall. All funds will go into the Library Book Fund.