The library team are always reading! These are what they currently have their bookmarks in:
Finn is reading Mr Mercedes by Stephen King. He says – ‘Great book, great mystery, well written’
Ryan is reading ZOM-B Underground by Darren Shan. He says ‘It’s very gruesome!’
Alexandra is reading Turtles all the Way Down by John Green. She says ‘So far fantastical’
More Library Team reads next week.
The Crime & Safety Day for the new S3 will be held during the morning today . This will involve tutor classes moving round a series of stations where they will have the opportunity to hear from the following partners:
Police Scotland
Fire Service
Prison Service
Youth Action
West Lothian Drug & Alcohol Service
Medics Against Violence
There will also be two scenario stations outside with the Fire service rescue dogs and the Police Drugs detection dogs.
We are very fortunate to have Professor McBride OBE coming into the school today to talk to some of our students. Professor McBride is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics from the University of Strathclyde, and since his retirement, he has given numerous talks in schools, ran masterclasses and residential weekends and is the current team lead of the UK Maths Olympiad team. His interest lies particularly in challenging the most able pupils, and his talks will therefore be for the 30 most able pupils in S1-S4, Higher and Advanced Higher Maths pupils. He will deliver his sessions in the library at the following times:
S1-S2 9.30-10.30am
S3-S4 11-11.50am
H/AH 12.10-1pm
I`m rather interested in Celtic mythology, I always have been, and this book contained the most variation of any I had read before. The illustrations (by Stephen Player) were very pretty. The stories were amazing and my personal favourite was Limpet Rock and The Land of Youth. Little notes and pronunciations of names and words were also present in this book something i thought was a nice touch.
All in all I’d give this book seven selkies out of ten.
I really enjoyed reading this book. The plot was something I found captivated my attention and I’m someone who doesn’t usually enjoy plots about time travel. However Ransom Riggs managed to do it in a way that I found interesting. The pictures littered throughout the book really helped me envision the story. The main character was someone who I was actually able to feel for, in fact, one of the best things was that I could feel for just about every character. There were still a few things that I felt weren’t fully explained, or some time loop rules that weren’t consistent throughout the whole book. Having said that I would still recommend this book to so many others.
I thought The Whispers Of Wilderwood Hall was really good, however it didn’t surprise me that much with the ending which was particularly predictable. All in All it wasn`t a bad book and it was a really nice story about learning to cope with change.
Love a new box set!
★ The Twists- I love when a book has a good plot twist, not only does The Graces have a lot of twists, all of them make sense but were things I didn’t expect to happen.
★ The Characters- I absolutely adored all of the characters, there was no entirely black ( Evil) or white ( good) character, even if a character looked to be one way or the other, something would come along and balance it out. In short all of the characters had their dark and light moments.
★ The Plot- The plot was amazing, however I`m unable to say much about why it was so great because of potential spoilers but I can say it was one of the best I’ve ever actually read.
★ The Character Development- I loved how the characters changed throughout, one character in particular acted as if changing personalities was as simple as changing your clothes and I really loved how they did it.
★ The Character Relationships- I can`t really say much about the relationships because of spoilers however I really loved how the author showed one-sided love, unrequited love and secret love both with platonic and romantic relationships.
What’s even better than The Hobbit? The Hobbit graphic novel! New in the Library this week…
Of course the library has copies of the novel as well.