Thank you mystery @braeshighschool.bsky.social Christmas elf for my bookish advent calendar. I don’t know who you are but I love this!

This is a really engaging read about a daughter and her toxic mother!

We chose to celebrate #bookweekscotland with a comp to find out the book heroes of @braeshighschool.bsky.social Looking for a book hero is a great way to read for #empathy! We gave prizes for the most convincing reasons! #readingschool #empathylab #bepartofit

Thank you to EVERYONE that supported our book fair! Total takings are TBC but we know we sold more than £500 of books, so we've earned more than £200 of free books for our school. Just wow! Massive thank you also to all the Reading Ambassadors that helped run the fair #ReadingSchools #BePartofIt

Delighted with my book recommendation from the @braeshighschool.bsky.social @braeslibrary.bsky.social Reading Ambassadors. Keep your eyes posted for the review 📖

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#BookWeekScotland kicks off on Sunday and it seems like a good time to kick off our brand new Staff Reads Project! This is open to all @braeshighschool.bsky.social staff - click here to sign up forms.office.com/e/FqXbNbQerU #ReadingSchool #BePartOfIt

Delighted to say that the book fair is going like a...fair! @braeshighschool.bsky.social staff and students still have til Tuesday to pop in and pick up one of those books everyone is talking about!

Inspired by The Traitors, #wordsforwellbeing today focussed on unreliable narrators. I kicked things off by reading a bit of a golden oldie, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. A joy to introduce this classic book to a new generation of readers!

New display to celebrate #TransgenderAwarenessMonth #EveryoneIsWelcome@Braes #ReadingSchool

This year, rather than just one S2 class participating in RED, we have offered it up to all S2 as an elective. We met for the first time last week and I introduced the shortlist to much enthusiasm!

Thank you T for baking these incredible ginger biscuits for Books and Bakes. The cookies and my sponge cakes were gone in seconds! Also I managed to have time to read my own book too. Absolute win! #ReadingSchool

One week til our BOOK FAIR!

I really do have the best bookgroup! Not so much words for wellbeing today rather than words to unsettle...taking turns to share favourite ghost stories. D&J told us The Tell Tale Heart, , J told The Girl With The Green Ribbon, and T,C and P told us their own ghost stories. Terrifying stuff!

Today the Library is being staffed by Shy Guy and Mr Mcintosh’s S1 classes have been chilled to the bone with these ghost stories… #schoollibrary #readingschool #halloween

#BookWeekScotland is fast approaching (Week beginning 17th Nov) and to celebrate why not enter our My Book Hero Competition! #ReadingSchool #Empathy #BePartofIt #RRSA #Article31

Calling all @braeshighschool.bsky.social folk! Countdown to the #ScholasticBookFair! Coming to the School Library on Weds 12th Nov until Tues 18th. We will accept cash or card. A fabulous way to both celebrate #BookWeekScotland and to make a head start on your Christmas shopping... #ReadingSchool

For our final #wordsforwellbeing before the tatty holidays we read the prologue of this then watched a bit of The Traitors…because if you had songlight, if you could mind read, you’d absolutely win that show! #readingschool

Some titles Falkirk School Librarians suggest for S1/2 #ReadingSchool

Some titles Falkirk School Librarians suggest for seniors #ReadingSchool

Some titles Falkirk School Librarians suggest for S3 #ReadingSchool

Democracy in action during Mr Kumar’s S2 @braeseng-media.bsky.social library time today: everyone made book spine poems, and then voted for our favourites! Here are the winners #readingschool

Mrs Horne’s S1 @braeseng-media.bsky.social made some really rather lovely book spine poems today #readingschool

Books and Bakes is happening at lunchtime today!

Mr Rooney’s 2A1 @braeseng-media.bsky.social made these lovely #bookspinepoems this morning 🙌 #readingschool #nationalpoetryday

Some fabulous #bookspinepoetry created by Mrs Rooney @mrsrooney-english.bsky.social 2A5 this morning #readingschool #nationalpoetryday

An anthology of sparkling #bookspinepoetry from Mr McIntosh’s @braeseng-media.bsky.social 1A1… this is how we celebrate #nationalpoetryday albeit a day late!! #bepartofit #readingschools

LOVE this book so far! Right from the start we got good vibes, the main character is from Linlithgow 🙌

Too impatient to wait for our copy to arrive I borrowed this from @falkirklibraries.bsky.social and intend to read a bit from chapter 9 to #wordsforwellbeing book group today. Hot chocolate and #storydeck cards also on the agenda! #readingschool

Hot chocolate and @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social #storydeck cards also featured heavily during book group today: we used them to represent how we are feeling today and then we used them to make predictions about our futures…

Continuing the picture and teenage book pairings by reading these by @tompercival.bsky.social to #wordsforwellbeing #bookgroup where they sparked a chat about random acts of kindness #readingschool #bepartofit #empathy

Hola! Today Jamie our #TherapyDog from #CanineConcern is visiting Mrs McDonald’s S3 @braesmodlang.bsky.social and listening to Spanish presentations. He normally meets them in the library but he’s enjoying being on tour! #BePartOfIt

I’m always a fan of pairing up a YA or teenage book with a picture book so that’s exactly what we did during today’s #WordsForWellbeing #BookGroup and that inspired a chat about body image, how we see ourselves and how other see us. #ReadingSchool #Empathy

I'm part of the fabulous Teacher Book Group organised by @lrsfalkirk.bsky.social and here are our recommendations from the books we read last year! www.thinglink.com/scene/198930... #ReadingSchool

At #WordsforWellbeing on Friday I read an extract of this that talked about intuitive eating and listening to your body and we then had a good old chat about what food we all love to eat. Also happy to report that hot chocolate is back and now very much a huge part of book group!

First #BooksandBakes of the school year was a rip roaring success! Library was filled to capacity with students reading and enjoying some fabulous home made cookies courtesy of Miss Smith. See you at the next one on Tuesday 7th October #ReadingSchool #BePartOfIt #RRSA #Article29

Miss Smith from @braeseng-media.bsky.social could really go pro with her dairy free cookies. She baked them for our first Books and Bakes of the session and they were delicious and all gone in seconds. #ReadingSchool #BooksandBakes #BePartOfIt #RRSA #Article29

Going to read this now, borrowed it from @braeslibrary.bsky.social 🙌

This is available to borrow from the school library and I very much recommend it! Very engaging story about body image and toxic dieting culture.

It really is a lovely thing though, the meeting we held today: students from all over Falkirk read the @redbookawards.bsky.social longlist of 7 titles over the summer and then today they had the chance to champion the one they feel has the wow factor. #readingschools

I rounded off this week with a meeting with Librarians and students from across Falkirk Council to decide this years @redbookawards.bsky.social shortlist! It wasn’t easy but we narrowed it down after much, much debate! The shortlist will be revealed in due time, watch this space!

I plan to read a bit of The Kill Factor to #wordsforwellbeing book group today. They LOVE the Hunger Games so this is right up their street!

It’s that time of year again! @falkirklibraries.bsky.social have just launched the Writing Rammy competition. #bepartofit #readingschool #rrsa #article29

The Kill Factor also available to borrow from the school library! It’s very gripping… (And there is nothing like a bit of multitasking…Kill Factor and Lottie B couldn’t be more different! 😂)

We had such an amazing time at the #edinburghinternationalbookfestival or as author Matt Goodfellow would say, it was mint! We met him & @yabookprize.bsky.social authors @sarahcrossan.bsky.social @beafitzgerald.bsky.social @margaretmcdonald.bsky.social Danielle Jawando and Moira Buffini. And Zog!!

And we (Miss Smith, 20 S2 & S3 students and I ) were lucky enough to see her and get books signed by her at the #edinburghinternationalbookfestival today!!!!🙌 #bepartofit #readingschool