World Book Day Teenfest

On 4 & 5 March from 6–8pm WBD TeenFest will bring amazing authors including Holly Smale, Marcus Sedgwick, Malorie Blackman and Derek Landy straight to your screen! With Hangouts and interviews, how-tos, blogposts, playlists, prizes and much more, each night will be packed with brilliant booky stuff as well as the chance to chat with other readers and writers.  

Hang out with your favourite YA authors

• Get the lowdown on the latest YA fiction
• Get writing tips, tricks and inspiration
• Share your#SHELFIES
• WIN BOOKS!
• UPCYCLE your old books
• LISTEN TO and CREATE playlists
• Discover some TRADE SECRETS
• And LOTS MORE!

More information at:      www.wbdteenfest.com/

The author Keith Gray visited the school on Monday 23rd of February to speak to S3 pupils. He proved very popular, entertaining us with  tales on how he became an author, talking about his books and methods of working and leaving us with an intriguing question as to which of his stories were actually true!

Beforehand, Keith came down to the Library to launch our World Book Day reading tree. The idea behind the tree  is for pupils and staff to add a leaf with the author and title of a book they have really enjoyed. Keith’s leaf contained details of a book that had ignited his love of reading – The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall.