Sign up to the weekly West Lothian Courier newsletter for the latest West Lothian news and sport.A West Lothian school has become the first in Scotland to win a prestigious reading award.Whitburn Academy picked up the Reading Schools gold award for their drive and determination to embed a reading culture at the school.The Scottish Book Trust’s Reading Schools initiative aims to encourage reading, with Whitburn Academy introducing a number of innovative schemes designed to get pupils interested in books.This hard work by staff, pupils and parents/carers has paid off when it was confirmed that the school has been awarded the first ever Gold accreditation as a Reading School.Whitburn Academy head teacher, Tracey Loudon, said: “As the first.
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