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Local Illustrator Visits
Friday 16th March saw local cartoonist and illustrator, Tony O’Donnell visiting the library’s Manga/Graphic Novel Club. Tony is known for doing work on The Beano‘s ‘Ivy the Terrible’ and has...
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World Book Day – Share a Story
World Book Day on 1st March now seems quite a time away. For only the second year the school and the library celebrated this annual event. This year’s event took the form of a Share-a-story day (idea...
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Where has All the Time Gone?
I can’t quite believe it was March when I last posted. The school year is now nearing its end and some of us are preparing to head off on a Geography field trip to Switzerland. Sports Day and Band Comp...
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New Term Approaches
Well, the summer holidays are over for this school librarian as I am now back and preparing for the new term. There is still a long list of things to do, none the least reshelving the books removed...
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Hit the Ground Running
We are now into our third week back after the summer holidays and it doesn’t really feel like we have stopped ‘running’ since the first day. Everyone has got back into the way of work, study and...
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Recognising Achievement for Library-based Activities – The Youth Achievement...
The school library has a long history of providing structured activities for pupils to do in their leisure time (eg. Pupil Librarian Training, special events such as Poetry readings / story telling and...
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October Already & National Poetry Day
Where does the time ago? It is remarkable how one day you are only just a week or two back into a new session, then before you know it it is the end of the first term and the October break beckons....
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Poetry Picnic
On Thursday 4th October the library celebrated National Poetry Day with the annual ‘Poetry Picnic’. Around twenty pupils and staff joined us in the library over the course of lunchtime to partake of...
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Spooky Happenings
The October break has been and gone and thoughts are turning to Christmas which is closer than one would like to believe. Let’s turn the clock back, then, two weeks. The Reading Zone of the library is...
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Internet Links for Geography & History
Links to websites suitable for your Geography and History projects (S1 / S2) are now available through this blog. Just scroll down and look at the left hand column to find them.
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It’s (Nearly) Christmas Time!
Christmas is nearly upon us again and there are a number of things to see and do in the library until the end of term on the 21st. Pupils Librarians have been busy decorating the trees and the...
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Christmas TV & Reading
This wonderful resource has been produced by school librarian, Mrs H. Smith (Eckington Schools, Derbyshire) a member of the School Librarian’s Network. She has put a lot of work into putting this...
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12 Words of Christmas
Many 12 word short stories have been submitted for this competition, particularly from S1 and S2. Here is the short list which will be judged by local author V. M. Whitworth who wrote The Bone Thief, a...
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Nearly February
It is hard to believe that were are already at the end of January. S4 Prelims have been and gone and S5 Prelims are due to start soon. February inservice and half term is next week – seems awfully...
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Orkney Young Writers’ Prize
Entry forms available from the school library (Ask Mrs Sinclair) or from Orkney Library staff (Stromness or Kirkwall) or from their website: Orkney Library You can also download it: Young Orkney...
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Competitions & Events
There are currently a couple of competitions available for pupils to enter if they wish. The Orkney Library & Archive are running writing competition for young people, closing date 16th March –...
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Stan Lee Excelsior Award
For the second year in a row, we are follwoing this annual award originally set up by a school librarian in Sheffield. This award recognises excellence in the world of Graphic Novel and Manga...
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World Book Day / Peedie Book Fair / C2C Book Club
It is World Book Day time of year again and there are a few things happening in the library this year. Readings from favourite books will take place on Thursday 7th March at lunchtime. Snacks will be...
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World Book Day Fun
Last week was a very busy week with several things happening over the course of the week and class bookings were aplenty including those for World Maths Day on the Wednesday. The main event of the week...
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