Reading Leaders

Happy winner

The winner of the Big Book Basket was Mrs Mather: happy parent of a P7 and soon-to-be S1 pupil starting school in August.

 The basket was filled by the Reading Leaders after a fundraiser and shared as a free raffle during the P7 parents' evening  on 12 June.

Mrs Mather said she is delighted with all the treats to enjoy and share with the family! 

Hosted by the Reading Leaders and Novelties Book Club. 

Beanbags and Cinema event.

Check out our *NEW* Teacher Feature.

With a focus on Team EA staff's choices each month.

First in the feature is Mrs Hamilton in the RMPS department. 

• What I Am Reading posters

As an accredited Gold Reading School, we are expected to show that our staff enjoy reading for pleasure and that they share their reading with pupils. We know that our staff are really busy, but we have asked them if they can update their posters on your doors, please? 

The feedback we have from pupils is: many pupils enjoy seeing what staff are currently reading, but if the posters stay the same, they are not be read by pupils. We are asking staff, at the start of the year, to keep their posters current and to change them when they read a new book. 

Our three Reading Leaders were superstars during the S1 Curriculum Fair on Monday 2 September.

This was the first meeting of the new term and there was a lot of chat, a lot of fun and... lots of plans made! All about sharing reading for pleasure and its benefits with all in our school community.

Creating a sparkly new display of staff's summer reads

The winner of the Big Book Basket was Mr Kennedy: happy parent of a P7 and soon-to-be S1 pupil starting school in August.

 The basket was filled by the Reading Leaders after a fundraiser and shared as a free raffle during the recent P7 parents' evening . 

Lots of treats to enjoy! 

Watching Elgin Academy's journey through the Reading Schools programme has been nothing short of a pleasure and a joy. The work you are doing is truly phenomenal; you have created an environment that not only celebrates the fun (and importance!) of reading for pleasure, but you have become a proud champion of reading across your whole community and are widely recognised as the real driver of readership in your local area.

Having looked through your amazing trove of evidence in great detail, I am absolutely delighted to let you know that you have achieved your Reading School: Gold accreditation! Congratulations! (#smashed-it!)

What you have achieved is seriously staggering. It's clear you have built an incredible reading culture at Elgin Academy; as well as all the fantastic things happening in school, you have found great success in engaging families, working closely (and meaningfully) with community partners and supporting your neighbouring schools. Your work promoting and supporting EAL families, spotlighting and celebrating neurodiversity and making reading visible (and accessible) throughout the school is awe inspiring - you should all be incredibly proud of yourselves!

Holly and Bethan, with Mrs Toonen, talked to the Parent Council on 24 April about our Reading Schools accreditation.

They asked the Parent Council about a new partnership and about being involved in school reading celebrations.

The Parent Council were all enthusasitic and discussed lots of ideas. A member of the Parent Council will also join our Reading Schools Group in school.

Everyone is delighted and this was such a positive meeting.

Here's to future collaboration and a new partnership!

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.

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.