Linwood High School Library

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

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

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

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

A heartfelt thank you to Elle McNicoll @BooksandChokers for visiting our school today, and sharing her passion for writing and her latest book “Some like it cold.” We also thank @WaterstonesBrae for making this event possible.

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

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

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

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.

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

We had an amazing session with @EveAinsworth 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 @BookPaisley for this opportunity. #PaisleyBookFest #PBF2024 #ImagineSomethingDifferent

In the spirit of PBF 2024 celebration, we want to say a heartfelt thank you to @VikkiGemmell 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

Exclusive: An award-winning writer who left a life of violence behind is to present a major new @BBCScotland 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-… @G_Armstrong21