Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makars

Calling all young poets. The Scottish Poetry Library seeks submissions from poetry writers aged 16 to 25 years. From these, they will select five young makars in total: four poets writing in English or Scots, and a writer in Scottish Gaelic. For more information:

 https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/scotlands-next-generation-young-makars/

The deadline for submissions is 12 noon on Friday, 28 April 2023.

Shakespeare Week - 20 - 26 March 2023

 

We've been celebrating all things Shakespeare this week; have a look at our favourite quotes board and check out some of the Bard's plays and sonnets.

S1 classes were also grooving to some Shakespeare rap in the library - check it out here

World Book Day Competition

 

There is still time to enter the Mini-Saga competition - we're looking for a short story of (about) 50 words. All entries must be in by next Friday! A usual, the prize will feature chocolate!

British Science Week

 

We've been celebrating British Science Week and talking about non-fiction books in the library. You can find a copy of the presentation made to classes in this Sway .

We have also been marking International Women's Day in the Library by talking about female scientists.

World Book Day, 2nd March 2023 - tokens

We're looking forward to celebrating World Book Day on Thursday. 

There are lots of fun books in the WBD Collection and we've been talking about some of them in the library with S1 & S2 students. 

 This year, the WBD book tokens are digital and you can download them here: Armadale Academy World Book Day tokens 

 You can then show this on your mobile phone/tablet at the checkout to exchange the book token for a free World Book Day £1 book, or get £1 off a full price book or audiobook costing £2.99 or more. If you prefer, you can print a copy or ask Mrs Lumsden in the Library for a paper copy. 

 The digital book tokens are ‘single-use only’ and should only be used once by each student. There are lots of fun books in the selection. The World Book Day digital book tokens can be used from Thursday, 16 February to Sunday, 26 March 2023.

Creative Writing Competition

 

Students in S5 organised a creative writing competition as part of their Personal Achievement class and received many excellent entries. This made choosing a winner extremely difficult!

We are delighted to announce that our winning story is "Why I Can't Do P.E." by S2 pupils, Jennifer and Rose. Franceska's story, "The Forgotten", was a worthy runner-up.

You can read the stories here: Creative Writing Competition

Thank you to everyone who took part and congratulations to the winners!

Book Lists

We have added new links to our suggested book lists (see links )👉

There are three updated lists available: 

• Click on S1 and S2 Suggested Reads for books recommended for everyone
• Click on Young Adult Suggested Reads  for books recommended from S3+ 
• Click on Advanced Higher Suggested Reads for books recommended for senior pupils and staff