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Monthly book recommendations

Novelties Book Club reading recommendations each month

Each month, pupils in Novelties Book Club enjoy discussing and choosing their top reads to share with Moray Libraries.

Their top six titles are shared on a poster, which is displayed in the Children's and Young Adult Library in Elgin Public Library.

The poster is also shared on Moray Libraries social media platforms.

Chloe and Olivia in Novelties Book Club with one of their Top Reads poster

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June 2024: Murals for Elgin Public Library children's library are complete

Last June, we met Moray Libraries staff to discuss new murals for the children's library.

These were created by our Art department: S1 Elective pupils and S6 pupil Kirsten Wallach.

on 18 June, Mrs Templeton PT Art, Kirsten and Mrs Toonen visited Gillian in the public library: with the finished work!

S6 pupil Kirsten's design will be on display in Elgin Public Library

S1 Art Department Elective: designs

All for the new murals in the children's library of Elgin Public Library: there are designs for different age groups and include lots of children's and YA books.

S2 Photography Elective

Pupils in the Art department created stunning work during their photography elective,which is displayed each year in the public library during Book Week Scotland.

Gangsta Granny

Cinderella

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Anne of Green Gables

Novelties Book Club recommend top reads for LGBTQIA+ Pride Month

Each month, the pupils in Novelties Book Club recommend books and these are shared on a poster and on social media in the public library.

Selecting books for the reading project with Anderson's Care Home

Guidance and help from Charlie at Elgin Public Library

27 February: next stage in design of the wall for the children's library

"Books and education build a city"

We love this quote from Gillian in the public during the visit on 27 February.

On to the next stage

Kirsten in S6 has been working hard on her design for the children's library and Gillian is delighted with her work.

10 January: The Art department S1 Elective class shared their wonderful creativity and designs for a new mural to be in the children's library in our public library.

All have worked hard and we will be sharing designs with staff in the public library.

Bookbug session with Moray Libraries during the school's Farmers' Market

Reading and rhymes

All our visitors, especially the little ones, enjoyed meeting Bookbug and a lovely session with Laura and Gillian from Moray Libraries.

Hello and welcome Bookbug

Look who took up residence on our Reading Throne. Only Bookbug!

Brilliant books and displays

The Elgin Public library book selection was fabulous and was on display for our family and community event.

Hello and welcome to Bookbug, who was in our library, with staff from Moray Libraries Team EA Farmers' Market family festive event on Thursday 14 December.

All our visitors, especially the little ones, enjoyed meeting Bookbug and a lovely session with Laura and Gillian from Moray Libraries.

Our little visitors were very 😊 happy!

Happy visitors

Especially our little visitors

12 December: Feedback on art work for the children's library

What a lovely trip, with Kirsten in S6, to the public library in Elgin to meet Charlie, from Moray Libraries, and share progress on the art work and mural for the children's library.

Kirsten shared her designs with Charlie, which are also part of her portfolio for art college.

Feedback: "Love. love this!" And: "So modern and clean".

24 November: Class 2.3 enjoyed a zine-making workshop with Fi Johnston in Elgin Public Library.

This was based on the novel Needle by Patrice Lawrence.

Soooo many great zines.

Fi Johnstone:

"As a fan of the novel Needle, it was a pleasure to think about what amazing zines Charlene might make with her personal passions and experiences, and how the class could use zines as a way of sharing their Own Voice and Stories."

Sometimes sharing your voice is making a zine about yourself, and sometimes it's sharing the story of Josh's great adventure battling both tsunami and mutant crab in order to get a babybel! Both are amazing, both were a pleasure to read

November 2023: Elgin Public Library have the beach stones created by Novelties Book Club on display. The story trail of pebbles looks great!

November 2023: S2 Photography Elective. Photos on display in the public library.

Public Library display

Pupils have been recreating favourite scenes from books

Alex and Erin have created Sleeping Beauty, while Max chose Manga and Attack on Titan.

Lucy, Ava and Tegan have a scene from The Hunger Games and Rhys has Spiderman v Venom, whilst Bryden has gone for Shrek the story. Brilliant creativity from the photography class.

26 September: Sharing designs for the new mural in the children's library and sharing the beach stones from Novelties Book Club.

Kirsten and her designs

A quick visit to the public library to share the WIP!

Kirsten in S6 shared her designs so far for the new mural in the children's library. These are part of her Advanced Higher Art work and will form her portfolio too.

The S1 Art Elective class is working on designs too.

The public library said: "Lots of work there - superb!"

Beach pebbles for a reading trail

We dropped off our lovely beach stones and pebbles with the public library staff. These were designed and created by Novelties Book Club pupils. To be used for a reading trail.

The public library staff said:

"Aren't they nice! Well done Novelties!

The Public Library Staff are supporting our

new Primary Schools' Reading Project.

15 June: The Summer Reading Challenge shared at the P7 - S1 Parents' Evening

Kirsty shared the public library's Summer Reading Challenge with our families.

Ready, Set, Read!

Read over the summer.

It was lovely to welcome and meet Kirsty from Elgin Public Library to our P7 -S1 parents' evening.

1 June was a meeting with Elgin Public Library staff and an exciting collaboration ahead.

Mrs Templeton in our Art department and the S1 Elective class will be designing and creating a new mural for the children's library.

Mr Davidson, the Operations Librarian, Moray Libraries, said:

"Good to have Elgin Academy pupils involved in our plans to brighten up Elgin Library to enhance our offering as an inclusive and welcoming community space for all."

We are all very excited about this project and the creativity to come.

Look what is available for all aged 13+ in the public library.

Staff Professional Development session

Team Work

The Reading Leaders shared their favourite YA books and shared why they think adults should be reading YA books and using them in the classroom and across the curriculum.

Philip Davidson, Community Librarian and Shelagh Toonen, school librarina both delivered presentations to school staff during this collaborative event.

YA books popular in the public library

Shared by Philip Davidson, Commuity Librarian.

Reading Leaders: Holly, Evie, Bethan, Roseanna and Mabel

We are so proud of our Reading Leaders, who delivered a fabulous presentation during the CLPL session on 24 January to our staff.

Books, BookTok and why they choose the books they do.

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