Next Wednesday, the Book club and Games Club will be restarting in the Library at lunchtime. Therefore, both clubs will be looking for new members and the clubs are open to anyone, from S1 to S6. Just come along before Wednesday and ask Mrs Vennall or anyone in the Library Team.
Today the Library becomes the BBC Report News Room! An intrepid band of S1 and S2 students will be writing up all the big new stories of the day. Follow their twitter feed
to find out what’s going on. The Library blog page will also update during the day, as the breaking news develops.
Mr Kinnoch is putting the news team’s articles onto the official West Calder High School site as they finish them – have a look here.
Today we welcome the author Philip Caveney (aka Danny Weston) who has come to speak to the second year about his books and how he writes. His creepy atmospheric novel The Piper was Book of the Week back in November last year (click on the book cover to see what we said about it), and it has just won the Older Readers Category in the 2016 Scottish Children’s Book A
wards, which just proves that we really can spot those award winners!
His other novel as Danny Weston is Mr Sparks – this week’s Book of the Week. Have a look tomorrow, when we will have a review posted on this blog. Both Danny Weston’s books are available to borrow from the Library – they are currently on display on the main issue desk.
Today is World Book Day – a day to celebrate books and reading across the world. Your English teachers have WBD tokens for everyone – you can use them to get £1 off the cost of any book, or you could pick up one of the special WBD £1 books, available at bookshops and supermarkets. There are 
two YA books this year, by popular authors Juno Dawson and Rainbow Rowell.
Raise your hand if you like Lord of the Rings. I have to admit, I’ve never read nor watched Lord of the Rings, which I know makes me some kind of social outcast but I promise it’s on my To-Do list!
The 20th of October this year was a very special day in the history of the series. 60 years ago on that day JRR Tolkein finished writing the final book and I personally think that deserves some kind of celebration. To date the books have sold over 150 million copies and of course been made into a series of very lengthy movies, more recently the prequel to the series “The Hobbit” was also made into a movie (or three.)
So if you’ve not read the books I suggest you pick up a copy from the library and get stuck in, I’ll join you!
Today the library is the newsroom for the West Calder High School BBC News School Report. More information will be posted during the day, and we will be retweeting their tweets on the library blog to let you know about the big stories as they happen.
National Libraries Day is on Saturday February 8th. Please support your local libraries – school and public – you would miss us if we weren’t here!
Today is Holocaust Memorial Day and the theme this year is Journeys – watch the video below, or go to the site (by clicking on the picture) to take a step for Holocaust Memorial Day 2014.
Enjoy your holidays, and to get you in a Christmassy mood why not watch Penguin’s authors reading Twas the Night Before Christmas?
The 10th December every year is designated UN Human Rights Day. This year the theme is Twenty Years Working for Your Rights. Click on the logo to go to the UN website and read more about this important day.