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Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award
The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2025 is now open for entries. The competition is open to anyone aged 11-17. It is FREE to enter and you can submit as many poems as you wish. Poems must be 40 lines or shorter. The deadline to enter your poem(s) is midnight 31 July 2025. Visit the competition website for more information.“Gothic Aberdeen” short story competition
Writers aged 16+ are invited to write a gothic story inspired by the city of Aberdeen, with the chance to win £300. The competition winner and runner-up(s) will be announced at the 2025 WayWORD Festival in October. To enter, short stories between 3,000-4,000 words should be submitted as Word Documents or PDFs by the 31st of July 2025. If you’re looking for inspiration, visit the Fear and Fascination exhibition at the University of Aberdeen’s Sir Duncan Rice Library. For more details, go to the competition website.Words of the Wild competition
The Scottish Wildlife Trust would like your stories of Scotland’s wildlife and wild places within the theme: From source to sea. Whether it’s a memorable moment on a riverside walk or an amazing experience at one of Scotland’s seabird colonies, they would love to hear about it. Submissions can be up to 1,000 words long and written in any form: poem, letter, short story, essay, or song lyrics. The deadline for entries 12 July. Visit the competition website for more information.What on Earth! magazine
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 readLatest updatesWorld Book Day 2025
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, askHenrietta Branford Writing Competition
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:Latest News
Glow Blogs Housekeeping 3
On 1 May 2025 we archived older Glow Blogs that haven’t been used for a number of years. Following this, commencing 28 August 2025, we will permanently delete these from the system to free up space and help improve overall performance. If your Glow Blog is archived but you want to continue using it you […]Glow Blogs Update May 2025
Glow Blogs was updated yesterday. The Following Plugins were updated. Jetpack, Syntax Highlighter, WP Accessibility, Mega Menu, H5P, Youtube Embed , 3D Flipbook, Userway Accessibility, WP Draw Attention. The Plugin updates in the main as small fixes and compatibility with the latest version of WordPress. Jetpack Fixed: A problem with the Jetpack icon not being […]We would love to hear from you
The Glow Team are looking for feedback on Glow Blogs. As part of our ongoing effort to support education staff and students with a platform that truly works for you, we’re inviting a moment of reflection on the Glow Blogs service. from: Reflect, Review, Refine – We’d Love to Hear From You – Glow Connect […]Glow Blogs Housekeeping 2
On 1 May 2025 we archived older Glow Blogs that haven’t been used for a number of years. Following this, commencing 28 August 2025, we will permanently delete these from the system to free up space and help improve overall performance. If your Glow Blog is archived but you want to continue using it you […]Glow Blogs updated April 2025
Glow Blogs has just been updated to WordPress 6.7.2 This has not brought a lot of new features that users will notices but there are improvements in performance, security & accessibility. Most of the improvements to the editor are for the block editor and site editors, bringing some more features to many of the blocks […]
