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

After a week of workroom/office reorganising, improvement planning, library classes timetable tweaking, book fest trip planning, poster designing, display making, cataloguing, processing, weeding and cleaning I am now done and on holiday til August ! #schoollibrarian #summerholidayjobs

My take on Us In The Before And After Best friends Elk and Mab are inseparable, soul mates even. When a tragic accident hits, both girls are forced to confront their friendship, loves, loss and life.

Tweaked opening hours from August 2025

And my take on ‘What Happens Online: IRL life isn’t going so well for Fred: at school he is invisible, he has no friends and things aren’t great at home. Online, however, he is the fabulously popular video game streamer Existor and no one at school has any idea about his secret identity…

Feedback from our first lunchtime Books and Bakes event was really good! General agreement that we should do this again on a regular basis! Thanks E for providing the bakes! #ReadingSchool #RRSA #Article31 #BePartOfIt

Feedback from our first lunchtime Books and Bakes event was really good! General agreement that we should do this again on a regular basis! Thanks E for providing the bakes! #ReadingSchool #RRSA #Article31 #BePartOfIt

Our RED Book Awards Longlisted books: A Thread My take on the shortlist..no spoilers and I’m not sharing my opinions here! Trigger warning for Glasgow Boys: this book contains strong language and mentions trauma, abuse, panic attacks, substance abuse, abandonment, violence

I did not get time to actually read my book this lunchtime at our Books and Bakes event (because I was making hot choc for those who were reading😍) but this is what I would have curled up with. One of our RED Book Awards longlisted titles…

I did not get time to actually read my book this lunchtime at our Books and Bakes event (because I was making hot choc for those who were reading😍) but this is what I would have curled up with. One of our RED Book Awards longlisted titles…

Today Pupil Librarians E and J were recognised and celebrated at the annual Falkirk Pupil School Librarians Awards Ceremony! Their contributions to the school library this year have been fantastic and I hope they enjoy spending their book tokens!!

One week to go!

And here is our fabulous RED20 Longlist😍

Being a School #SaturdayLibrarian is rare but not unheard of! Had the best day running storytime (and giant jenga) at the @braesfamengagement.bsky.social Community Fun Day last weekend. 🙌 to Literacy Leader A for her entertaining readings of I Am A Bat by Morag Hood #ReadingSchool