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Our school library now has a subscription to                                          What on Earth! magazine Each issue is bursting with fascinating facts and articles, photos, quizzes, puzzles, and so much more. You can read the magazines in the library, but if you’d like to complete the puzzles and quizzes ask Mrs Üstün for a photocopy. Although you can’t borrow the library’s copies, you can access the magazines at home by reading them online.   As well as the current issue you can read

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Thursday 6th of March is World Book Day 2025! Get your £1 voucher from Mrs. Üstün or your English teacher.  Use it to get a free £1 WBD book or get £1 off a book of your choice. Why not enter one of our school’s WBD competitions? S1-S6 World Book Day Competition 2025 (deadline lunchtime Fri 7th March) Can you win this year’s competition?  Link here. S1-S2  Design a National Book Token Competition (deadline lunchtime Fri 7th March)   S1-S3  Book-to-screen proposal for  World Book Day (deadline lunchtime Fri 7th March) If you’d like to make a physical booklet, ask

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If you love writing, why not enter this year’s Henrietta Branford Writing Competition. This year’s theme for the Henrietta Branford Writing Competition is inspired by the book that won the Branford Boase Award in 2024, Steady For This by Nathanael Lessore. Nathanael’s book is bright, funny, joyful, and fresh, making readers laugh out loud. What the judges of the Henrietta Branford Writing Competition are looking for this year are pieces of writing that will put smiles on their faces and, even better, make them chuckle or laugh out loud! You may choose whatever you want to write from the following:

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We’re taking part in the National Literacy Trust’s Annual Literacy Survey 2025. Please complete the survey by the end of 7th of March. Link to survey for S1-S4:   11-16 year olds Link to survey for S5-S6:   16-18 year olds

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It’s been a long wait, but now craft club is back! Come along every Friday from 3.05 – 4pm. Materials are provided – just bring your imagination. Join our group on Google Classroom:  sbb4tih

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Submissions are now open for the eleventh year of the BBC Young Writers’ Award! All you need to do is write a story of up to 1,000 words – no theme, no subject: as long as it’s a story and it’s all your own work, you can submit it. You’ve got until 24th March to get your entry in, so get writing! Visit the website for more information

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