Two Lanarkshire faculties scooped high prizes within the nationwide First Minister’s studying problem.
St Brendan’s Main in Motherwell received the varsity and group partnership award, whereas Blackwood Main in South Lanarkshire was extremely recommended in the identical class.
Each obtained guide tokens with winners within the annual contest additionally receiving trophies, introduced through the studying problem competition week run by the Scottish Ebook Belief.
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Pupils and employees at St Brendan’s impressed judges with their busy programme of visits from members of their group – together with medical doctors, councillors, dinner women and their parish priest – who shared their love of books.
The Muirhouse faculty additionally constructed robust relationships with Our Girl’s Excessive and with their library as a part of their venture.
Studying problem judges praised “the pupils’ reflection on these visits and tales of their handwritten notes”, plus the partnership alternatives “each in sharing tales and easing transitions”.
St Brendan’s head trainer Maura Oates mentioned: “The response from our mother and father, companions and the group was great, and the movies and visits from group members had been inspiring.
“The kids not solely loved listening to the tales, but in addition discovering out concerning the private studying journeys of everybody who participated.
“It not solely helped to develop a studying tradition inside the faculty, it strengthened our partnerships with our group [and] despatched a buzz across the faculty which additional motivated extra youngsters and their households to take part.”
The First Minister’s studying problem was launched in 2016 and is open to all faculties, libraries and group teams, recognising these working to help studying for enjoyment and making a studying tradition of their group.
Nicola Sturgeon mentioned: “The purpose is to help youngsters and younger individuals to develop and develop on a love of studying, and I'm completely delighted that almost 600 faculties and teams throughout Scotland took half this 12 months.
“Studying contributes vastly to attainment and future wellbeing, however it may additionally foster empathy, creativity and confidence.
“I wish to thank all of the mother and father and lecturers for his or her efforts to get youngsters and households concerned, and congratulate this 12 months’s winners and everybody who participated for all of the exhausting work and creativeness they delivered to this 12 months’s problem.”
Scottish Ebook Belief chief govt Marc Lambert echoed the congratulations, saying: “There was an exquisite vary of submissions showcasing the exhausting work of pupils, lecturers and librarians throughout Scotland.
“It’s incredible to see so many colleges have interaction with our programmes as a part of their problem.”
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