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Our Reading Schools Accreditation journey with Scottish Book Trust has taken place over the two last years, but we have been committed to embedding a powerful reading culture for pupils and staff at Mackie Academy and beyond for a long time now.

Research proves that reading for pleasure supports equity and wellbeing, impacts learners' attainment, and encourages critical thinking, creativity, empathy and resilience. At Mackie staff are great at championing all types of reading - physical books, eBooks, audiobooks, graphic novels, magazines, comics, classics, and everything in between!

Focusing on our Reading Schools award has allowed us to further engage families, improve literacy, develop empathy and curiosity, increase reading engagement to close the attainment gap, develop memory capacity, encourage pupils to experience other cultures and perspectives, and improve vocabulary, social and communication skills.

We gained our Silver award in July 2024 and are looking forward to going for Gold. It has been wonderful to celebrate this achievement together as a school community and continue to sustain our brilliant reading culture at Mackie!