Kelly Smith
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School librarian @CastlebraeCCC
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined October 2017
Our Craigmillar Christmas 2025 appeal is now LIVE! 🎄☃️🔔🎁❄️ Please help us to support literacy in our community by donating, sharing the appeal or telling people about our work. https://t.co/fhYAETyf7O
#BabiesLoveBooks #StoriesForSharing #CraigmillarChristmas #BookGifting
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We're really excited about running the last 3 CWNN sessions of the year in @CastlebraeCCC with our new facilitator Lou. All young people aged 12-16 who live or go to school in the Craigmillar area are welcome! #ExpressYourself #YoungPeople #Confidence
Whoop! The Club With No Name is back!! Come along to the Library @CastlebraeCCC to catch up with Katie, meet new facilitator Lou and find new ways to #ExpressYourself. We've zined, drawn, filmed snorted and puppeted - come along to help us decide what's next... 💬✏️🎬🐷🧵
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Whoop! The Club With No Name is back!! Come along to the Library @CastlebraeCCC to catch up with Katie, meet new facilitator Lou and find new ways to #ExpressYourself. We've zined, drawn, filmed snorted and puppeted - come along to help us decide what's next... 💬✏️🎬🐷🧵
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Hooray - #JohnniStantonCWA is back 📝 Pop into the Library @CastlebraeCCC to find some inspiration - we've got a published story by Hannah in S6 📕, some story dice 🎲🎲 and a set of story-building Jenga 🟩🟨🟦 And obviously we have some books, too 📚📚📚📚
We're delighted to launch the #JohnniStantonCWA today, the start of #NationalStorytellingWeek! Children & young people in the local area are invited to join in - we know there are some great stories out there just waiting to be told! #StoriesForSharing
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We're eagerly awaiting this year's theme, but meantime why not pop into the Library @CastlebraeCCC and pick up a story or two to inspire your writing... ♥️📚📝
The Johnni Stanton Creative Writing Awards 2025 will be here soon! We're inviting children & young people to tell a story in 100 words. It's a fun challenge & we LOVE reading the stories. All with be revealed on Sat 1 Feb! ✍️📚#JohnniStantonCWA
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We see access to a well-stocked library a basic human right for children. That's why we have chosen #HumanRightsDay to share our important new survey of school librarians in Scotland. If you care about school libraries, please share our findings so far. 📚✨
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As part of our #CraigmillarChristmas fundraising we're celebrating Express Yourself! our project for 12-16 year olds, supporting young people to increase self-confidence, feel a sense of belonging & explore different types of storytelling & creativity. 🤩 https://t.co/nOkJ6mm6mX
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Our #BookBox project launches this morning, and our chief gifter is ready and waiting to hand them out - thanks, @scottishbktrust for letting us give the gift of reading to our @CastlebraeCCC families ❤️📚🐾
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Whoop whoop! The Club With No Name is back! Come along to the Library @CastlebraeCCC to join Katie and Pete and find new ways to #ExpressYourself - we've written zines, drawn portraits, filmed films and snorted like pigs. Come along to help us decide what's next... 💬📰🎨🎬🐷
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The new @teentitlesmag is hot off the press and @CastlebraeCCC Library regular Skye features on p15 🤩 Pop in and grab the latest issue or a recommended book for yourself ❤️📚
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And that's the last session of @CraigmillarSFS's The Club With No Name this school year done and dusted, where we welcomed even more new faces, created some fabulous portraits and bonded over Rubik's Cubes ✏️🖌️🎨🖍️ Thank you, Katie and Pete 🤗
Our pop-up project for 12-16 year olds is back this term for 2 sessions! Join us in @CastlebraeCCC on Tue 4 & 11 June 3.30-5.50pm. We've done zine making, puppetry, creative writing, tabletop games, made films and sound effects! What will happen this time?? #ExpressYourself
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Big thank you to Steve @sqanews for sending some dictionaries along to the Library @CastlebraeCCC 🤗📚 And before they'd even been added to stock, they led to impromptu sharing of greetings from around the world 💬
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Another fab session at The Club With No Name yesterday - we welcomed some news faces, played some new games, and created performance pieces and found poetry the likes of which have never been seen before 🐎🐘✂️📰✏️
Our pop-up project for 12-16 year olds is back this term for 2 sessions! Join us in @CastlebraeCCC on Tue 4 & 11 June 3.30-5.50pm. We've done zine making, puppetry, creative writing, tabletop games, made films and sound effects! What will happen this time?? #ExpressYourself
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Whoop whoop! It's back again!! Come along to the Library @CastlebraeCCC after school on Tuesday 4 June and Tuesday 6 June to join Katie and Pete for another chance to help design your perfect club! 💬📝✂️🎲🎬🎙️
Our pop-up project for 12-16 year olds is back this term for 2 sessions! Join us in @CastlebraeCCC on Tue 4 & 11 June 3.30-5.50pm. We've done zine making, puppetry, creative writing, tabletop games, made films and sound effects! What will happen this time?? #ExpressYourself
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Thanks to a gift from our kind friends along the road at @WaterstonesFort, you can now read the entire Older Readers shortlist @CastlebraeCCC Library #WCBP24 Thank you! 🤗❤️📚
Now in its 20th anniversary year, we’re thrilled to announce our spectacular shortlist for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2024! 🥳 Chosen by booksellers across the country, discover the amazing shortlisted authors and illustrators here: https://t.co/3IO6cDduNT
#WCBP24
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This #InternationalWomensDay📷, pop into the Library @CastlebraeCHS and pick up something inspiring to read 📚💚🤍💜📚
Happy #InternationalWomensDay💜 Today we celebrate women's achievements & #InspireInclusion across our communities. On #IWD2024 we elevate the focus on #womensequality to help forge a #genderequal world 🌎Thanks everyone everywhere for supporting #women 🙏🏾 https://t.co/CE787vsOiR
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Thanks @toppsta for the recent #BookPost 🤗 And what a read! I loved everything about this book - I think @KMcCaughrain did a phenomenal job telling Mel and Sid's story and I can't wait to discuss it with readers @CastlebraeCCC ❤️📚
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And if you're at @CastlebraeCCC, Katie has left some books for you in the school library - pop in to collect a book or a #WorldBookDay token 📚📚📚 Thank you, Katie! 🤗
Happy @WorldBookDayUK everyone! 📚🥳 Katie will be in the park near Lidl this afternoon 3pm-4pm gifting books to 4-12 year olds. Please pop by, everyone welcome. 📖😻🎉 #WorldBookDay2024 #BookGifting #StoriesForSharing #Craigmillar #Niddrie #Magdalene #Bingham
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If you’re out and about in Craigmillar next week, keep your eyes peeled for Katie and her book trolley 📚📚📚 And if you’re at @CastlebraeCCC, pop into the Library to grab your #WorldBookDay token 🤓
Woohoo!!! Two lovely boxes of #WorldBookDay books have just arrived at the office thanks to the ever fabulous @EdinBookshop. Can't wait to share these with families next week 🤩📚 #BookGifting #StoriesForSharing
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