📚🎟🚨 Got kids? Then get your FREE tickets to our @louiestowell.bsky.social chat about her bestselling LOKI: A BAD GOD'S GUIDE series! Where better to hear about the shape-shifting Viking trickster god Loki than among some giant Viking tombstones at Govan? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-convers...

In the Glasgow Times today, ahead of our book launch. It’s online too.

Enjoying some Summer reading ☀️so far I’ve been to Greece and Orkney ( by book)! Anyone like to share their Summer book choices? 📚

Big news for your calendar! 🗓️ Book Week Scotland (14–20 June 2027) and Reading Schools Week (16–20 November 2026) just got new dates, and we couldn't be more excited to share and celebrate them with you.

Tomorrow is World Day of Social Justice, and we are focusing on reading for pleasure. Did you know that reading for pleasure improves language skills, social skills and employability? Read more about how reading tackles poverty www.scottishbooktrust.com/articles/how...

How reading for pleasure can tackle poverty

The benefits of reading—even for a short time each day—are varied and life-changing, from improving employability, language skills, social skills, and family bonding, to reducing stress and anxiety.

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I know most of us are here to avoid Twitter, but if you do have an active account please vote for our S2 Fareedah who is currently a finalist in the Glasgow SOS digital poster competition Thanks! @holyroodsecondary.bsky.social @chrismcgrane.bsky.social x.com/sos_glasgow/...

New books thanks to the #SLIF Youth for Equity schools’ project.

I love reading this with the Higher ESOL class - it's a great discussion starter! #RoodReads

What are reading @mrsfarhatali.bsky.social

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Holyrood colleagues, it is #ReadingSchoolsWeek - it would be great to share our love of children’s literature📚💖 What have you been reading? What have our yps been recommending? I’m reading ‘Evander and the Cesquill’s Blade’ by our own Emmanuel in S2. It is superb🎉 #RoodReads

Holyrood colleagues, it is #ReadingSchoolsWeek - it would be great to share our love of children’s literature📚💖 What have you been reading? What have our yps been recommending? I’m reading ‘Evander and the Cesquill’s Blade’ by our own Emmanuel in S2. It is superb🎉 #RoodReads

A few more from our workshop. Also, thank you to @fionakindness3.bsky.social for facilitating! Great morning 🎨

Brilliant workshops with some Sustainability Leaders and artist Abi this morning. We created clay artwork that will be part of the wider "Painting for Peace" project that is happening in our local community ♻️☮️ can't wait to see it all come together!

New Library books, these were recommended by parents 😄 #RoodReads

We had a fun lunchtime designing our own tartans, and borrowing books by fantastic Scottish authors present & past 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Including @lindsaylittleson.bsky.social , Elle McNicol, & R.L. Stevenson. #StAndrew’sDay #ScottishLit

Some lovely book cover designs from our brilliant S1 at lunchtime 🎉📚 #BookWeekScotland

We have some fabulous books still left from our Holyrood #BookWeekScotland staff Book Swap. Helpers can deliver to your classroom if anyone missed out 😄📚

Our Holyrood group had a fantastic time at this special poetry event at Hampden Bowling Club today. Thank you so much to Donna Matthew and @juliemcneillwrites.bsky.social #BookWeekScotland #Poetry

#BookWeekScotland Prizewinners collecting prizes from our book vending machine 🎉👍 for excellent poetry writing in English class. Well done! #RoodReads

So impressed by A.S. in 1L who rustled up this lovely book display on #Friendship at lunchtime, for #BookWeekScotland. We’re planning a fun week with loads of activities ( and prizes)📚🎉

Enjoy our brand new podcast on Spotify Holyrood Chapter Chats 🎤📚 Perfect for #BookWeekScotland #Friendship #Podcasts #ReadingSchools open.spotify.com/episode/6ZOi...

Episode 1

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Claire from Glasgow Libraries will be in the library at lunchtime today ( Wed) to lead us in another fabulous STEM/ using circuits/ poetry/ creative event today . ⚡️💡🔌

We enjoyed our visit from Tawona Sitholé today, leading us in celebrating our many spoken languages, with a bit of drama and fun😄 Well done to Mr. McGrath’s & Mrs. Cooper’s excellent pupils.

1D enjoyed a fantastic session with Etienne Kubwabo today. Huge thanks for helping us design our own graphic novel characters. 1D were very inspired to meet Etienne. ( we also had healthy breakfast snacks)🍏

Well done S1 & S2 at lunchtime and thanks to Claire, Glasgow Life STEM Co-ordinator. We made circuits using graphite ✏️⚡️& turned our black-out poems into ‘talking poems’ using iPads voice recording 💖 #STEM #poetry

Having lots of fun, Hallowe’en decorating. Great Helpers in action😀 We re-use the same decorations every year to be sustainable♻️ Growing very fond of mr. Pumpkin 🎃

For #DyslexiaAwarenessWeek, we had some great tannoy announcements and shared resources like #MissionDyslexia “I liked this book as it shows that all different types of people can be dyslexic - even superheroes! I used the Tips for Time Management”. (LN, Holyrood) 😄

All of our readers at Holyrood are absolute stars 📚🤩 Well done Sep/ Oct ‘Readers of the Month’ : Rayan, Aisha, Zainab & Prableen 👏

This Dyslexia Awareness Week Scotland (29 Sept–5 Oct), it's time to challenge common myths about dyslexia. Scotland will only become a dyslexia-friendly country when everyone knows what dyslexia is – and isn’t. Explore 10 myths from Dyslexia Scotland: dyslexiascotland.org.uk/busting-dysl...

Books galore being returned today😄 Our Holyrood young people have borrowed & returned 1,538 books since August🎉👏 And here’s our ‘Cosy Autumn Reads’ book display created by lunchtime helpers 🍁📚 #RoodReads

Chapter Chats PODCAST coming soon🎤 Thanks to Annabeth, Foxface, Yvonne, Richard Hannay, and Mr. McGrath (we chose favourite book characters as our aliases); so much fun starting our podcasting adventure today. Thank you to Mrs. Panaretou for technical help. 💖