Spring Read

East Ayrshire school librarians are busy organising their second book festival, Spring Read, to celebrate World Book Day which this year falls on Thursday the 6th of March. Four teenage authors are visiting various schools during March. On Tuesday the 4th of March, 20 S3 pupils will be visiting Grange Academy to hear the performance poet, Janet Paisley. She will be talking about plays and poems. Then, on World Book Day itself, a group of 10 S1 pupils will be visitng Stewarton Academy to hear Cathy Cassidy talk about her writings. She is always a favourite and is fairly local since she lives down in Dumfriesshire. The third author, Nicola Morgan, is coming to our school on Friday the 14th of March at which there will be 20 of our S2 pupils and pupils from Grange, James Hamilton, St. Joseph's and Stewarton Academies . Nicola will be talking about some of her books. Finally, 20 S1 pupils will be going to St. Joseph's Academy to hear Catherine MacPhail talk about writing and her books. Catherine has been coming to East Ayrshire schools for a number of years and pupils always love listening to her.