Failte! European Day of Languages

Bonjour! Guten tag! Buon giorno! Buenos dias! Dzien dobry!Buna ziua! Madainn mhath!

Monday 26th of September is the 10th European Day of Languages to celebrate the Modern Langauges Department are running a Continental Cafe at breaktime for staff and students. To help improve your language skills come into the Library where there is a display of language books and dictionaries and to complement this display you can browse and borrow a selection of books about the countries of Europe.

Talk like a Pirate Day

Aaarrrr, me hearties !!

Monday 19th of September do be 'Talk like a Pirate Day'. Unfortunately landlubbers we will not be in school to indulge in a spot of pirate talk. But never ye mind, there be plenty of pirate loot in the Library! Pirate books both fiction and non-fiction be amassed on the shelves for ye to enjoy. So shake a leg and set sail for the Library and enjoy a pirate tale or two over the holiday weekend!

Read the Horrible Histories Handbook- Pirates, for all those gruesome facts about real-life pirates from an explanation of 'keel-hauling' to descriptions of delicious pirate food!

For an amazing fantasy story try: The last of the sky pirates. Or, read the sequel to the original Peter Pan story - Peter Pan in scarlet- and find out what new dangers face Wendy and the Lost Boys when they return to Neverland.

Scottish Childrens Book Awards 2011

Short-listed authors 2011

The Scottish Book Trust has announced their shortlist for the 2011 SC Book Awards (formerly the Royal Mail Book Awards). As usual Mrs Aitken is looking for students who would be interested in judging the books and voting for their favourite. If you are interested in taking part come and give your name to Mrs Aitlen in the Library and get information about the books on the shortlists. Also check out the Scottish Book Trust's website: http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/

Roald Dahl Day

Roald Dahl Day is celebrated every year on the 13th September. Roald Dahl - author of The Twits, The BFG and George's Marvellous Medicine (to name but a few) - was born on 13th September 1916. As well as all his wonderful children's books Roald Dahl also wrote stories for adults too. Roald Dahl died in 1990 at the age of 74. Even now, 21 years after he died, Roald Dahl's books are still read by children all over the world. Why not visit the Library and reread your favourite Roald Dahl book? For more information about Roald Dahl and many fun activities go to www.roalddahl.com/

Football Books

The football season is over, for some of us that might be a good thing, but for those of you missing your footie why not catch up on some football-related reading. Choose from both fiction and non-fiction reads.

Keeper by Mal Peet is a fictional story set in South America and tells the story of El Gato (the Cat) who rose from humble beginnings to become a World Cup-winning goalkeeper, and the mysterious Keeper, his mentor, who haunted a football pitch deep in the forest.

Golden girl Grace by Narinder Dhami (who also wrote Bend it like Beckham) is the story of teenager Grace who is the star striker of her football team. But Grace is having to grow up fast, her parents are divorcing and she has discovered - boys! What will she do when her father decides to move away? Will she move or is the football team more important to her than she realises?

If you want to improve your football skills whilst there is no football to watch try Football by Clive Gifford which gives you a step-by-step guide to essential football techniques - tackling, shooting, defending and heading are all covered.

See these books and more

on display in the Library.