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Your display looks brilliant👏💖 I’d like to recommend ‘My Name is Samim’ story of a young Afghan refugee - very powerful, and moving story.

How reading for pleasure can tackle poverty The benefits of reading—even for a short time each day—are varied and life-changing, from improving employability, language skills, social skills, and family bonding, to reducing stress and anxiety.

Tomorrow is World Day of Social Justice, and we are focusing on reading for pleasure. Did you know that reading for pleasure improves language skills, social skills and employability?

Read more about how reading tackles poverty

www.scottishbooktrust.com/articles/how...

I know most of us are here to avoid Twitter, but if you do have an active account please vote for our S2 Fareedah who is currently a finalist in the Glasgow SOS digital poster competition
Thanks! @holyroodsecondary.bsky.social @chrismcgrane.bsky.social

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These can be found in our Library’s Anti-Racism section : biographies, history, geography and celebration of multicultural values, very important within our school community #RoodReads

Selection of young peoples anti-racism & equalities books

Selection if young peoples anti-racism and equalities books

New books thanks to the #SLIF Youth for Equity schools’ project.

I love reading this with the Higher ESOL class - it's a great discussion starter! #RoodReads

Sounds great 🏃🏼‍♀️🌏
I liked Alice Feeney “Beautiful Ugly”, (audiobook) very twisty, very suspenseful 😳

What are reading @mrsfarhatali.bsky.social

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Book ‘Evander and the Cesquill’s Blade’ by Emmanuel Amusan, cover art by Iona Olliero. Purple cover with gold lettering and embellishment.

Holyrood colleagues, it is #ReadingSchoolsWeek - it would be great to share our love of children’s literature📚💖 What have you been reading? What have our yps been recommending? I’m reading ‘Evander and the Cesquill’s Blade’ by our own Emmanuel in S2. It is superb🎉
#RoodReads

Fantastic! Well done everyone 💚🎨

A few more from our workshop. Also, thank you to @fionakindness3.bsky.social for facilitating! Great morning 🎨

Brilliant workshops with some Sustainability Leaders and artist Abi this morning. We created clay artwork that will be part of the wider "Painting for Peace" project that is happening in our local community ♻️☮️ can't wait to see it all come together!

Book - Disabled and Proud

Book- How to be You

New Library books, these were recommended by parents 😄
#RoodReads

Display board with colourful A3 tartan designs and St. Andrew’s Day banner

Tartan design with red & yellow weave on grey background

Book display of Scottish authors

Books on tartan, saints, and Scotland

We had a fun lunchtime designing our own tartans, and borrowing books by fantastic Scottish authors present & past 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Including @lindsaylittleson.bsky.social , Elle McNicol, & R.L. Stevenson.

#StAndrew’sDay #ScottishLit

Some lovely book cover designs from our brilliant S1 at lunchtime 🎉📚 #BookWeekScotland

We have some fabulous books still left from our Holyrood #BookWeekScotland staff Book Swap. Helpers can deliver to your classroom if anyone missed out 😄📚

Group of young writers working on poetry sitting at large table

Group photo with pupils and Donna Matthew in Hampden Bowling Club

Our Holyrood group had a fantastic time at this special poetry event at Hampden Bowling Club today. Thank you so much to Donna Matthew and @juliemcneillwrites.bsky.social #BookWeekScotland #Poetry

#BookWeekScotland Prizewinners collecting prizes from our book vending machine 🎉👍 for excellent poetry writing in English class. Well done!
#RoodReads

Love the book choice of Wallace & Gromit 🐶

Book display on table on theme of Friendship - includes Jacqueline Wilson, Wallace and Gromit, and Benjamin Zephaniah poetry.

So impressed by A.S. in 1L who rustled up this lovely book display on #Friendship at lunchtime, for #BookWeekScotland. We’re planning a fun week with loads of activities ( and prizes)📚🎉

Episode 1

Enjoy our brand new podcast on Spotify
Holyrood Chapter Chats 🎤📚
Perfect for #BookWeekScotland #Friendship #Podcasts #ReadingSchools
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Great participation, and expert mentoring from B, in S3 - helping our S1.

Claire from Glasgow Libraries will be in the library at lunchtime today ( Wed) to lead us in another fabulous STEM/ using circuits/ poetry/ creative event today . ⚡️💡🔌

In addition, we’ve been gifted 75 new books for our school library. Also part of the SLIF- Youth for Equity- project. Our keen readers will be delighted ! 📚🎉

We enjoyed our visit from Tawona Sitholé today, leading us in celebrating our many spoken languages, with a bit of drama and fun😄 Well done to Mr. McGrath’s & Mrs. Cooper’s excellent pupils.

We also received these fantastic ‘Beats of War’ comics😄💥

This was part of the Youth for Equity - School Library Improvement Fund- project, supported by the Scottish Govt.