Lest We Forget

This week our non-fiction November display table features books about World War I, to help us mark Remembrance Day today.

We also enjoyed a visit from our senior students selling poppies.

Dyslexia Awareness Week 2021

 We celebrated Dyslexia Awareness Week last week with a presentation in the Library for the S1 and S2s. The whole school was also able to participate in the Wordsearch competition, and well done to Morgan in S2 who won the prize. 

Special mention also goes to those students who tried the fiendishly difficult wordsearch too!

Don't forget that we have many dyslexia friendly books in the Library - just ask Mrs Lumsden. You can also check out the Dyslexia Scotland site for young people: Dyslexia Unwrapped

As you are no doubt aware, COP26 is happening in Glasgow this week. If you would like more information about climate change, why not borrow one of these books from the Library? Or you could read some 'cli-fi' (climate fiction).

This Sway presentation also gives some more information: 

COP26 and Climate Change

COP26 is happening in Glasgow this week and will last for 12 days. COP stands for Conference of the Parties, and will be attended by countries that are signatories to the United Nations Fra…

Go to this Sway

October, October

Welcome back to school and I hope you had a fantastic holiday everyone. The book of the month for October is October, October by Katya Balens. I loved this book and you can read more about it here:

S1 Book Gift

Calling all S1s...this is the link to the S1 Book Gift Sway we've been talking about in the Library. Any questions, please speak to your English teacher or Mrs Lumsden.

Book a Book is Back!

Is every copy of My Hero Academia on loan? Would you like to borrow the latest bestseller? Well, you'll be delighted to hear that Book a Book is back. It's really easy to put a reservation on a book by clicking on this link below and look out for the posters with QR code around the school.

Want to Know More?

Afghanistan has featured heavily in the news over the last few days. If you would like to read more about this, check out our Wakelet: