Do you know what your teacher’s reading? If you can match the reader profiles to the member of staff and guess who’s reading what during February, you could win a £10 book token. All you have to do is put the correct profile number against the member of staff listed on the entry form which is available in the library. Entries must be handed in to the library by Wednesday 1st March. The winner (and the correct list of who’s reading what) will be announced on World Book Day 2nd March.

Who's Reading What?

Mr Scott (Headteacher)
Mr Illsley (Depute Headteacher)
Mr Mitchell (Physical Education)
Miss Lafferty (Careers Officer)
Mr Black (Mathematics)
Mrs Howells (Librarian)
Mrs Millar (English)
Miss Murray (Library)
Mr Philippou (Mathematics)
Mr Hands (Geography)
Mr Napier (Mathematics)
Miss Slaven (Business Studies)
Mr Kelman (Music)
Mrs Stewart (RME)
Mrs Crosbie (Headteacher's secretary)

READER PROFILE 1

Hobbies & Interests:
Astronomy, Space Travel, Foreign Travel, Theatre

Some books you have enjoyed over the past year:
Private Peaceful – Michael Morpurgo
Fleshmarket – Nicola Morgan
Knife Edge – Malorie Blackman

Favourite author(s):
C S Lewis
Robert Swindells
Robert Westall

Favourite book(s) from childhood:
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Journey to the Red Planet

Your dream job as a child:
Astronaut

Person (real or fictional) you would most like to meet:
An alien!

Book I'll be reading in February is "Strange Fits of Passion" by Anita Shreve


READER PROFILE 2

Hobbies & Interests:
Golf, hill-walking, skiing

Some books you have enjoyed over the past year:
“Rifles” – Mark Urban (Peninsular War & Waterloo)
“Vessel of Sadness” – William Woodruff (WWII)
“Voices of the Great War” – Max Arthur
“The Time Traveller’s Wife” – Audrey Niffenegger
“May the Fire Be Always Lit - A Biography of Jock Nimlin”
“Mountaincraft & Leadership” – E Langmuir

Favourite author(s):
None!

Favourite book(s) from childhood:
Born Free Trilogy – J Adamson
South with Scott – Admiral Evans
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott

Your dream job as a child:
Mountaineer

Person (real or fictional) you would most like to meet:
Nelson Mandela

Book I'll be reading in February is "The Prophet's Way" by Thom Hartmann


READER PROFILE 3

Hobbies & Interests:
Reading, walking, gardening, DIY, crosswords, codewords

Some books you have enjoyed over the past year:
Distant Echo
Dark Hollow
Disordered Minds
Etc, etc, etc….!

Favourite author(s):
Tom Clancy, Val McDermid, Minette Walters, Frances Fyfield, Jeffrey Deaver, Michael Connelly, Robert Wilson, etc = crime!

Favourite book(s) from childhood:
All the Alastair McLean books!
Swiss Family Robinson
Lady in White
Three Musketeers
Lorne Doone and many more!!!!

Your dream job as a child:
Fireman

Person (real or fictional) you would most like to meet:
Nelson Mandela

Book I'll be reading in February is "Blind Date" by Frances Fyfield


PROFILE READER 4

Hobbies & Interests:
Gardening, long distance walking, crafts, keeping chickens!

Some books you have enjoyed over the past year:
Through a Glass Darkly
Maya by Jostein Gaarder

Favourite author(s):
Jostein Gaarder

Favourite book(s) from childhood:
Flower Fairies Series
Beatrix Potter books (especially Mrs Tiggy Winkle!)
Peter Pan

Your dream job as a child:
Become a Ballerina

Person (real or fictional) you would most like to meet:
Dalai Lama

Book I'll be reading in February is "The Death Zone" by Matt Dickinson


READER PROFILE 5

Hobbies & Interests:
Football, Maths, Walking, Watching TV

Some books you have enjoyed over the past year:
All Creatures Great and Small (along with other volumes)
Lots of football and maths books

Favourite author(s):
David Potter and Tom Campbell (Celtic historians)
Arthur Conan Doyle
Alexandre Dumas

Favourite book(s) from childhood:
The Beano (does that count?)

Your dream job as a child:
Professional Footballer (it still is my dream job!)

Person (real or fictional) you would most like to meet:
I have given this much thought and honestly can’t think of anybody!

Book I'll be reading in February is "All Things Bright and Beautiful" by James Herriot


READER PROFILE 6

Hobbies & Interests:
Gym, Aerobics, Boys Brigade Officer, Films, Quizzes, Travel

Some books you have enjoyed over the past year:
Frankenstein (Book 1 - Prodigal son) – Dean Koontz
Frankenstein (Book 2 – City of Night) – Dean Koontz
Life Expectancy – Dean Koontz
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince – J K Rowling
Lucky Man – Michael J Fox

Favourite author(s):
Dean Koontz

Favourite book(s) from childhood:
Secret Seven series

Your dream job as a child:
Astronaut

Person (real or fictional) you would most like to meet:
Neil Armstrong

Book I'll be reading in February is "The Bad Mother's Handbook" by Kate Long


READER PROFILE 7

Hobbies & Interests:
Walking, swimming, socialising, gardening, unspoken language, drawing, painting, reading, films and many more…..!

Some books you have enjoyed over the past year:
Life and Limb by Jamie Andrew
The Fire Within
If You Could See Me Now by Cecelia Ahern
Rosie by Alan Titchmarsh
The Amazing Story of Aldophus Tips by Michael Morpurgo and many more……! Phew!!

Favourite author(s):
James Herriot, Michael Morpurgo, Cecelia Ahern,
Jess Smith, Alan Titchmarsh, etc!!!!


Favourite book(s) from childhood:
Didn’t read very many books but I’m making up for it!!!!!
Liked comics – The Dandy, The Beano, etc! Also, Tin Tin!!!!!

Your dream job as a child:
Professional Swimmer (take part in the Olympics!)

Person (real or fictional) you would most like to meet:
Muhammed Ali

Book I'll be reading in February is "The Saint of Dragons" by Jason Hightman


READER PROFILE 8

Hobbies & Interests:
Reading, sewing/knitting, socialising, cooking

Some books you have enjoyed over the past year:
Mr Strange & Jonathon Norrell by Susanna Clarke
The Apprentice by Alan Sugar
Until I Find You by John Irving
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt
Beggars Banquet by Iain Rankin

Favourite author(s):
John Irving, Margaret Atwood

Favourite book(s) from childhood:
Anything by Enid Blyton – especially the Five Findouters!

Your dream job as a child:
Librarian!

Person (real or fictional) you would most like to meet:
John Irving – to see where he gets his ideas/themes
Owen Meany – a very “small” character from my favourite book by John Irving

Book I'll be reading in February is "Gem Squash Tokoloshe" by Rachel Zadok


READER PROFILE 9

Hobbies & Interests:
Mountaineering

Some books you have enjoyed over the past year:
The Civil War
The Wilderness Years by John Muir
Shogun by James Clavell
Band of Brothers
D Day

Favourite author(s):
Michael Shara

Favourite book(s) from childhood:
Reach for the Sky by Paul Brickhill
Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien

Your dream job as a child:
Airforce Pilot

Person (real or fictional) you would most like to meet:
Robert E Lee

Book I'll be reading in February is "Civil War" by Trevor Royle


READER PROFILE 10

Hobbies & Interests:
Philosophy, Politics, History, Wine, Women and Revolution

Some books you have enjoyed over the past year:
The Last English Revolutionary by Hugh Purcell
Birds without Wings by Louis De Bernieres
Legions of Babel by V B Johnson
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber
Bolivian Diary by ‘Che’ Guevara
Society against the State by Pierre Clastres

Favourite author(s):
None!

Favourite book(s) from childhood:
C S Lewis – Narnia series
Doctor Who series
Ten Days That Shook The World by John Reed

Your dream job as a child:
Astronaut or Urban Guerrilla!

Person (real or fictional) you would most like to meet:
V I Lenin

Book I'll be reading in February is "The Sacred Night" by Tahar Ben Jelloun


READER PROFILE 11

“I am a ‘gobbler’ of a reader. I don’t delicately nibble at a novel for days and weeks, rationing my reading to a page or two a day. Oh no! I GOBBLE! This means I will sit, inert, over a period of hours – perhaps six, perhaps 12 or even a marathon of 26 (my personal record, so far) until I have turned the very last page. Then I sit for a wee while longer, just to digest what I’ve read.”

Hobbies & Interests:
Reading, gardening, horses, DIY, movies, pubs and food!

Some books you have enjoyed over the past year:
Eve Green by Susan Fletcher – Story is told by 29 years old, pregnant, Eve Green. She reflects back on her history, starting at 11 years old with the death of her mother and her return to her grandparents’ home in Wales where she uncovers family secrets.

Favourite author(s):
Dodi Smith, DH Lawrence, Anne Tyler, Mary Wesley, Lee Childs, Dean Koontz, Ian Ranking to name a few.

Favourite book(s) from childhood:
The Beano, The Archers, Pippa Longstocking

Your dream job as a child:
Astronaut or a General in the Air Force

Person (real or fictional) you would most like to meet:
FT Pilkington

Book I'll be reading in February is "The Electric Michaelangelo" by Sarah Hall


READER PROFILE 12

Hobbies & Interests:
Playing music in all shapes and forms. Singing with my Chamber Choir. Church. Family.

Some books you have enjoyed over the past year:
Guilty Feet – a first book written by a good friend of mine from school.
The Da Vinci Code – for fun when we were camping.
Kinkell – The Reconstruction of a Scottish Castle – this castle is situated close to where I grew up as a child.

Favourite author(s):
None!

Favourite book(s) from childhood:
The Ghosts of Motley Hall!!! This was a series on TV and subsequently in book form. It really terrified me!

Your dream job as a child:
Professional Tuba player

Person (real or fictional) you would most like to meet:
J S Bach (Composer 1685-1759)

Book I'll be reading in February is "My Oedipus Complex" by Frank O'Connor


READER PROFILE 13

Hobbies & Interests:
Sports, travel and films

Some books you have enjoyed over the past year:
The entire Sharpe series – Bernard Cornwell
Acid House – Irvine Welsh

Favourite author(s):
Wilbur Smith, Irvine Welsh, George MacDonald Fraser, Bernard Cornwell

Favourite book(s) from childhood:
James and the Giant Peach
Fantastic Mr Fox

Your dream job as a child:
Footballer

Person (real or fictional) you would most like to meet:
Maradona

Book I'll be reading in February is "Stonehenge" by Bernard Cornwell


READER PROFILE 14

Hobbies & Interests:
Reading, aviation, photography, hillwalking

Some books you have enjoyed over the past year:
The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
The Gathering Storm – Winston Churchhill
Knife of Dreams – Robert Jordan

Favourite author(s):
J R R Tolkien, Larry Niven, Mikhail Sholokov

Favourite book(s) from childhood:
Lord of the Rings
Almost anything by W.E. Johns

Your dream job as a child:
Naval Pilot

Person (real or fictional) you would most like to meet:
So many I would most like to meet - John F Kennedy, Franklin D Roosevelt, Howard Hughes, John Ford, etc.

Book I'll be reading in February is "I, Claudius and Claudius the God" by Robert Graves


READER PROFILE 15

Hobbies & Interests:
Swimming, gardening, keep fit

Some books you have enjoyed over the past year:
Five Quarters of an Orange
Chocolat

Favourite author(s):
Joanne Harris

Favourite book(s) from childhood:
Famous Five series by Enid Blyton

Your dream job as a child:
Nurse

Person (real or fictional) you would most like to meet:
Joan Collins

Book I'll be reading in February is "Can you Keep a Secret" by Sophie Kinsella



The reader profiles and the members of staff are displayed in the library, in the Intranet and the school’s website.