Pupils at Coatbridge High have a special story to tell after seeing an innovative vending machine installed in their school.
It dispenses books from a wide range of titles chosen by the youngsters themselves, and tokens to use it are given out as a reward for positive behaviour.
The machine has proved popular with pupils who are enjoying their free reading treats and making use of the eye-catching new technology.
Coatbridge High’s book vending machine is located prominently within its main entrance foyer, “to highlight the importance of reading for pleasure” to pupils, parents and staff, setting the tone for the school’s ever-growing reading culture.
Pupils helped choose the wide range of titles to be dispensed from its automatic shelves, with its first collection of books being collected from Waterstones in Glasgow by a group of youngsters accompanied by English teacher Claire Gilligan.
She said: “Pupils are able to choose which book they would like from the machine – it’s proven really popular and is part of our drive to become an accredited reading school through the Scottish Book Trust.”
Teachers can nominate pupils who demonstrate some of the school’s key principles of respect, responsibility, inclusion, creativity, ambition and determination to receive a token for the machine, with the initiative aiming to “promote positive behaviour and engagement”.
Coatbridge’s young readers are “excited” to try out the titles and describe the vending machine as “a great way of being able to choose the next book we want to read, and quite fun to use!”
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