• Staff and Family Community Book club/ reading cafe

• Family reading activities/ events (including Parent evenings)

• Community reading projects (‘wait as you read’, book trails, library or bookshop, etc.)

  
  

• Black History Month (October)

• Book Week Scotland (November)

• Book/Reading club

• 'Drop Everything and Read' sessions across the school

• World Book Day (6th of March)

• Collate and share book reviews from staff, pupils + families

• Digital Newsletter (reader of the month, reading recommendations, new books, upcoming events)

• Reading Ambassador profiles (Member introduction) on Twitter/ X

• Reader of the month certificates + prizes

• Reading tracker (digital)

• Book Trailer Tuesdays/ Thursdays

• Create a book display or similar in the local library

Comment your name or let Miss M know if you are interested.

S3 - 9th of October

S5-S6 - 4th of November

S4 - 20th of November

S1 - 24th of February

Comment below if you'd be interested staying behind to represent the group at a stall. We need book recommendations for each one (feel free to share below) and perhaps some quizzes/games/activities i.e. 'Guess the book using the emojis' or arrange book swaps.

October:

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  Black History Month (UK)National 
  
  

• 
  Poetry Day - 1st of October
  
  

November

• Book Week Scotland (18-24th Nov)
  
  

• Anti Bullying Week 2024 (Nov 11-17)

• Christmas Fayre in school 24th Nov (Sunday)

December

• Christmas 
  

• December 2 - December 8 - National Grief Awareness Week 2024

January

• World Religion Day - 21st of January

February

• Valentines Day - 14th

March

• World Book Day (6th March)

April

• World Book Night - 23rd April
  
  

May

June

The RED Book Award is Falkirk Council’s Book Award in which each secondary school in the authority participate. RED stands for Read, Enjoy, Debate and is all about reading for enjoyment and stimulating lively debate about books. https://twitter.com/readenjoydebate?lang=en

The award is now in its 12th year.

13 and 14-year-olds from English classes in Bo’ness Academy, Braes High, Denny High, Falkirk High, Graeme High, Grangemouth High, Larbert High and St. Mungo’s High as well as reading groups in Polmont Young Offenders Institute and from a variety of countries take part. The young people read the 4 shortlisted titles, vote for their favourite book and produce a creative interpretation of one of the books for the award ceremony.

The Books

The shortlist of books is decided after lengthy debate by school and public librarians, young people feed in their opinions to the debate too. The criteria include books must be available in paperback, the author is available to attend the award ceremony and the books must have the wow factor.

The young people decide the winning book through a secret vote a few weeks before the award ceremony. The winner is revealed by opening the red envelope at the close of the big day!

Key Dates

April – August: A longlist of books is read from which the shortlist is agreed.

September – April: Young people read, enjoy and debate the books.

April: Pupils vote for their favourite book.

May: The RED Book Award ceremony held at the Falkirk Town Hall

The RED Book Award Ceremony

Around 250 young people and invited guests pack into the Falkirk Town Hall to participate in the RED Book Award ceremony. Participants are encouraged to wear a red accessory and there are prizes (sponsored by Bright Red Books, www.brightredpublishing.co.uk) throughout the event for winners of the book review competition (sponsored by Palimpsest, www.palimpsest-bp.co.uk), a book cover design competition and best red accessory. The day is full of energy and fun and packed with a host of activities – from book signings and chatting with the authors to creative interpretations of the books and live entertainment by the young people.

The ceremony culminates in the opening of the red envelope to reveal the winning book.

They also hold a reading cafe for teens every Thursday after school!

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Book Swap

The Book Project - collect children's books

Reading Ambassador representatives - table of 'What our S1s are reading' books

Best dressed competition - staff and pupils

Lunch time stations in the library:

Design a bookmark

Eat and read

Book swap

Book Trailers and short horror films - Film Making WAO - introduce their short films/ trailers