Exclusive: An award-winning writer who left a life of violence behind is to present a major new BBC Scotland documentary series on Scotland’s street gang culture. Graeme Armstrong drew on his own experiences for debut novel The Young Team. scotsman.com/whats-on/arts-… Graeme Armstrong

Lots of new book with a new look to the library 📚 🌼☀️

So many good revision ideas out there being shared at the moment. We’re working on this #Morgan clock on the board at the moment. #scottext #revision #N5English

Visiting library at breaks? It’s not just books, you can make pizza too😉 or you can role the dice 🎲 #osmo #llama #LHS

For S5 and S6, here is a new volunteering opportunity!!!🧐

Trip to Waterstones Braehead with our readers on a hot summer day 🌞 Pupils chose interesting books for our library collection.

Celebrating #InternationalWomensDay with Book display featuring fiction and non-fiction written by women, and about women. S1 students during their class visit also borrowed books in honour of International Women’s Day celebration! #InternationalWomensDay2024 #IWD #WorldBookDayUK

We are excited to celebrate Paisley Book Festival 2024! Theme of the year: Imagine Something Different. From captivating Author visits to a lot of engaging activities. We can’t wait to meet some of our PBF Authors today, 22nd and 26th April 2024. #PaisleyBookFest #Authorvisits

In the spirit of PBF 2024 celebration, we want to say a heartfelt thank you to Victoria Gemmell for her inspiring visit at our school. Victoria’s stories and creative writing workshop sparked the imagination of our S1 to S3 students that attended the event. #PaisleyBookFest

We had an amazing session with Eve Ainsworth today. Thank you for a wonderful talk well delivered. Our S1 and S2 groups were happy to win some of your signed books. Also, we appreciate PaisleyBookFest for this opportunity. #PaisleyBookFest #PBF2024 #ImagineSomethingDifferent

Happy Empathy Day! Let’s create a more compassionate world through the power of reading. #EmpathyDay2024 #EmpathyDayUk #EmpathyLab #EmpathyDay #EmpathyLabUk

Our top readers visited Waterstones, Braehead yesterday to pick books for the library, as a reward for being avid readers. It was interesting and fun.

Our S3 group enjoyed an interactive creative writing workshop yesterday by Author Danielle Jawando. A signed copy of Danielle's book, "If my words had wings," was won by one of the students. Thanks to @scottishbktrust for this opportunity. #ScottishFriendlyChildrensBookTour

We’ve been having lots of fun making paper craft in the library during Tuesday lunchtimes.

The countdown is over. Today is the 1 and only #NationalPoetryDay – a day to enjoy and share poetry. This year’s theme is all about counting. What are you counting? And what do you think counts? Share your thoughts in the comments below. #poetrycommunity #poetryday

A heartfelt thank you to Elle McNicoll Elle McNicoll ✍🏻📚🩷💜💙 for visiting our school today, and sharing her passion for writing and her latest book “Some like it cold.” We also thank Waterstones Braehead for making this event possible.

Halloween came to life in the library. Our students decorated the space, made book display and bookmarks. Now the library is looking haunted 🎃🤡👻🎃 #Halloween #Halloween2024 #HappyHalloween

We had a wonderful day with two sessions of Book Quiz Competition for S1 and S2 pupils. Congratulations to our winners who received books as prizes. Thank you to everyone that participated. #BookWeekScotland2024 #BookWeekScotland #Hope

We had an engaging and fun comic workshop with Tom Foster today for our S1 pupils. Thank you Tom Foster for visiting us, and @scottishbktrust for this fantastic opportunity. #BookWeekScotland2024 #BookWeekScotland

Merry Christmas to you all. I hope you have a blissful holiday season with lots of good books to read.🎄🌲🎄