Happy #WorldBookDay2023! Be sure to pop along to the Reading Cafe up at the huts where we'll be doing a 'Book Tasting' menu curated by the librarian and our very knowledgeable pupil helpers. #GlasgowSchoolLibrarians St Andrew's Secondary School St Andrew’s English StAndrewsReadingEngagementTeam

A couple of photos from our #WorldBookDay2023 Reading Lunch last week - complete with cake and book tasting! StAndrewsReadingEngagementTeam St Andrew’s Literacy St Andrew's Secondary School St Andrew’s English

We have a great handpicked selection here for #InternationalWomensDay2023 including books on women's history as well as some excellent novels featuring influential female characters. St Andrew's Secondary School

An interesting read about the vital role librarians have in improving literacy St Andrew's Secondary Library St Andrew's CLPL tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.108…

For those who were wondering where I was yesterday: I was at this very eye-opening and helpful training session at the Mitchell Library. Lots of inspiration for future projects and literacy strategies. Thanks to Evelyn Arizpe 🧡 🍉🕊️ and Julie McAdam School of Education St Andrew’s Literacy

Good luck to all our departing S6s! It has been great working with many of you and getting to know you over the past few years and I'm certain you'll do just fine in the big, bad world. Melissa Keelan St Andrew's Secondary School

Eid Mubarak🌙 Wishing all our young people and families celebrating a happy and blessed #EidUIFitr #Eid2023

Tomorrow we'll be welcoming Maisie Chan Does Not Do Olives for a Creative Writing special! Maisie's newest book is one of three listed for the #YAldi award - nominated by #GlasgowSchoolLibrarians with the winner chosen by pupils! (closes May 1st) St Andrew's Secondary School Mrs Mitchell St Andrew’s Literacy

Beyond excited that award-winning author MaisieChanWrites is on threads came to visit us at Creative Writing Club today! St Andrew's Secondary School St Andrew's Secondary Library St Andrew’s English

Congratulations to Strangely Magical for winning the YA-ldi Book Award as chosen by Glasgow's Secondary pupils! Both of your sessions St Andrew's Secondary School were excellent! Thanks to everyone who took part and a big thanks to Maisie Chan Does Not Do Olives and Ann Sei Lin ~ REBEL DAWN 🌅 ~ also.

It's #BookWeekScotland and we will be having two (yes TWO!) quizzes in the library to celebrate. Tomorrow and Friday at lunchtime - prizes to be won! Also thanks to our library helpers for contributing to this years' display and making posters. St Andrew’s English St Andrew's Secondary School

Announcement coming soon... 👀 St Andrew's Secondary School

And we're back open! Just in time for #WorldBookDay too - complete with shiny new shelving and a lick of paint on the walls! We have lots more to announce this week so watch this space... St Andrew's Secondary School

Our #WorldBookDay display is officially up! There are a number of great things happening around the school courtesy of StAndrewsReadingEngagementTeam so watch out for those. On Thursday, the library will also be welcoming Hiba Noor Khan to the school as part of the #ScotFriendlyBookTour!

1.4 were so glad to see the library open again!! I couldn’t help but snap this shot. It is amazing how much this class love reading ❤️ Mrs Keelan St Andrew's Secondary School St Andrew's Secondary Library

A massive thanks to Hiba Noor Khan for topping off an excellent #WorldBookDay with a great talk and workshop relating to her book 'Safiyyah's War'. Everyone who came along loved it. Scottish Book Trust St Andrew's Secondary School

We are having a #BritishScienceWeek special in the library! Since the theme this year is time, our lunchtime group have been designing posters and graphic novels related to time and time-travel. PLUS a big science quiz on Friday with prizes to be won! StAndrewsSTEM

On Tuesday, we were delighted to have author and playwright Alan Bissett in to talk to some of our S3s about his book, 'Lads: A Guide to Respect and Consent', as part of an ongoing Scottish Government School Library Improvement Fund project. St Andrew's Secondary School St Andrew’s English

Massive thanks to Graeme Armstrong for coming along to St Andrew's Secondary School to talk to some of our S3s about his book, 'The Young Team', as well as the 'story behind the story'. Both pupils and staff who attended were captivated.