Audio Books

 Access to Audio Books: https://westlothian.borrowbox.com/eaudiobooks/young-adult/featured

Welcome back

 Welcome back to school everyone! We hope you had a wonderful summer and can't wait to share some of the fabulous books we read. 

 These are just some of our recommended reads for the new term and you can borrow them from the library now.

Happy Holidays!

Have a wonderful summer holiday, everyone, and make sure you keep reading!

I'm looking forward to catching up with my TBR (To Be Read) pile of books, which includes many recommendations from pupils and staff. See you in August.

Carnegie Award 2022

 

We are delighted to announce that our former book of the month, October, October by Katya Balen, won the Yoto Carnegie Award this year. 

Our book groups have been shadowing the Yoto Carnegie Award shortlist and you can see videos about the shortlisted books here: https://www.thinglink.com/scene/1560615341569081345.

There is more information about all the books on the Carnegie website.

Empathy Day 2022

 

Empathy is our ability to understand and experience someone else’s feelings. It builds stronger, kinder communities. It’s a crucial life skill that young people need in order to learn, thrive and contribute. We’re not born with a fixed quantity of empathy – it’s a skill we can all learn. 

Research shows that books are an important tool to help develop empathy - when we identify with book characters, we see the world from their point of view. 

Here are just some of the Empathy superheroes from Armadale Academy

Mental Health Awareness Week

Health and Wellbeing @ Armadale Academy

Mental Health Non-fiction

Mental Health Awareness Week takes place from 9th to 15th May, 2022.

This is the ideal time to show off the fantastic new books we have added to our Health and Wellbeing Collection. Our Student Voice representatives wanted to see more mental health books in the Library and provided funding to enable new stock to be purchased. And here it is!

If you like more information, please click on the image below:

Shelf Health Books

Reading Well - Shelf Help Books

Go to this Sway

If you would like information about some more online resources to help with health and wellbeing, please see here (click on image)

Photo from Unsplash

May the Fourth Be with you...

 Star Wars Day 2022

We celebrated Star Wars and all things sci-fi in the Library on Wednesday, 4th May at lunchtime.

Younglings and Padawans signed up to join Jedi Masters in the Armadale Skywalker Academy. They were treated to a showing of Rogue One and participated in activities such as word searches and mazes. 

The force was strong with these ones and thank you to everyone who participated, especially the guardians of the door!