The Hundreds
The non-fiction section of the Library is arranged in numerical order using the Dewey Decimal Classification system. Dewey has ten sections, each with a different hundred. Sciences are 500s, Literature...
View ArticlePhotography Club: shadow project
S1 Photography Club pupils have been using lighting to play with shadows. On the surface this seems like a very simple project but a lot of learning is going on, not only in terms of photography and...
View ArticleBBC School Reporters
Our BBC School Reporters met again today to continue their discussions and research. The group have set themselves a series of daunting challenges for School Report Day on 10th March and are learning...
View ArticleWindfarm research
Pupils in S1 Social Subjects are investigating wind farms and deciding for themselves whether this is a useful and beneficial form of renewable energy. Once the class have made their minds up, each...
View ArticleGreat Writing Challenge 2
For the second Great Writing Challenge, Mrs Macfadyen explained that pupils would have to put their characters into some sort of danger. Their task was to investigate dangerous locations around the...
View ArticleArtwork for school blogs
S2 Art and Design have been asked to create a series of banners for the Our Lady’s Latest blog using parts of famous artworks. Only part of the painting or sculpture will be visible in the header...
View ArticleManifesto for Libraries
CILIPS have produced a Manifesto for Libraries, highlighting “the incredible return on investment and impact on key policy areas that libraries offer”, covering public libraries, school libraries,...
View ArticleOpen Culture
Open Culture provides links to a whole load of free material including films, audiobooks, textbooks, ebooks, MOOCs, course notes, language lessons, audio and video clips and thousands of images. The...
View ArticleBananas and radiation
Fake news? Misinformation? Satire? Nope, you genuinely can use bananas as an informal comparison for background radiation. A gift for discussing the reliability of online information. I’d also use it...
View ArticleChange of address
The Library website and blog has moved to a new address. Come and visit at https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/nl/olhslrc/
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