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Article in the Herald highlights that "concerns have been raised over plans to remove school librarian posts in East Renfrewshire and North Lanarkshire and cut the number in Inverclyde"
Read it and weep: No library for 100,000 Scots primary pupils despite Scot Gov drive
heraldscotland.com/business_…
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🐳🎉🎸🎶Tha mi air bhioran!
Join us tomorrow for a live reading of #WilbertTheWhale & #MurchadhMucmhara exploring music, physics & culture for P2/3 learners with @WILibraries @LindaNicLeoid @ScienceCeilidh
#BookWeekScotland #Gàidhlig #TasgadhGrant #STEAM eventbrite.co.uk/e/wilbert-t…
ALT Wilbert the Whale and a Starfish #MurchadhMucmhara #WilbertTheWhale
*Dihaoine 18.11.2022*
Tachartas AN-ASGAIDH air-loidhne le @ScienceCeilidh
11:30-12:10 Stòiridh Ghàidhlig & ealain son C1-3
Clàraibh an seo: eventbrite.co.uk/e/wilbert-t…
Tha Murchadh a’ mhuc-mhara a’ lorg a ghuth is ag ionnsachadh mu cheòl, cultar & saidheans.
#Gàidhlig @fngaidheal
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Dìreach dà latha eile 👏🏻👏🏻 Cò tha tighinn còmhla rinn? Tha sinn coimhead air adhart cluinntinn bho Donnchadh agus Agnes! ☺️ #book #booklaunch #shortstories #scottishgaelic – at Stornoway, Scotland
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The day after my daughter was born, when I was stressed beyond words, a nurse handed me this bag and it meant the world.
Thank you, @scottishbktrust 💞 @Bookbug_SBT 📚
ALT Scottish Book Trust’s Bookbug Baby bag.
ALT Scottish Book Trust’s Bookbug Baby bag.
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Looking forward to this!
A link to the screening of my documentary film on ‘what makes a place special?’ Showing @anlanntair soon lanntair.com/events/event/ar…
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We will be sharing both the English (10 am - 10.40 am) and the Gaelic (11.30 am - 12.10 pm) versions on Friday 18th November with Linda Macleod (Presenter on Cbeebies Alba) and Megan Leishman (Science Ceilidh) 📚
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We will also be sharing one of the activities, making Whale Guitars, which you are encouraged to make with whoever you are with after the launch! All you need is: Used tubs (multiple sizes), elastic bands (different sizes), some paper/ something to decorate the tubs & tape 🖍
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To join with your class, family, youth group or just to watch, sign up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/wilbert-t… Be sure to tag us and use #WilberttheWhale if you are watching or making your Whale Guitars! 🐳
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Come read along with us and find out how Wilbert the Whale finds his voice again learning about music, culture and science in our story for P2/3 aged learners and their families 🐳 🎶 #WilberttheWhale #TasgadhGrant
ALT "Where's Wilbert's Voice" Livestream resource + video launch. There is a whale in the top left corner, an octopus in the top right and the where's wilberts voice in the bottom left.
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A link to the screening of my documentary film on ‘what makes a place special?’ Showing @anlanntair soon lanntair.com/events/event/ar…
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As part of #BookWeekScotland with @WILibraries we’re launching our new resource live where you can join us and read along with the story, and then make Whale Guitars together 🎸
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Tha sinn an dòchas gun tig sibh còmhla rinn airson cur air bhog Crànn-Fìge le Donnchadh MacGillÌosa. Bidh Donnchadh ann an còmhradh còmhla ri Agnes Rennie agus tha sinn cinnteach gur e oidhche sgoinneil a bhios againn còmhla ri chèile. 📖 #newbook #booklaunch @WILibraries – at Stornoway, Scotland
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Giclee prints inspired by folk tales from the Highlands and Islands from Uist artist Kathrhona Lawson, currently on display at Ullapool's Ferry Terminal building and available from @AnTallaSolais at [email protected]
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Parliamentary report calls for government to support and modernise #libraries because they are “an important part of a #community’s #infrastructure”, especially for those who “are #digitallyexcluded or who live in #deprivedneighbourhoods”#inclusion theguardian.com/books/2022/n…
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The power of books and reading come alive in this wonderful thread. 🥰
#Books #PowerOfBooks #ReadingAsTherapy
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Did you know writing is just like playtime? 🤔
@philearle discusses the joys of writing and reading in our latest #BBCAuthorsLive event - packed with great advice for young writers AND 'reluctant readers' 📚
📺 Watch the full event on BBC iPlayer 👉 bbc.in/3zqu9jp
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Wise words @WILibraries 🐾 – at Scotland, United Kingdom
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Today the world, next Tuesday: Stornoway eventbrite.co.uk/e/douglas-t…