World 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, ask Mrs Üstün for paper.
Send Google documents or slides to gw10ustunalison@ab-ed.org

Henrietta 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:
• Ideas from your imagination or something that really happened.
• A short story or a description (no more than 600 words).
• A poem; or song lyric (no more than 40 lines).
• Rap lyrics, in honour of the star of Steady For This, Shaun, aka MC Growls

You can write less than 600 words or 40 lines but not more.

The judges are looking for writing that will amuse them and hold their attention, so ask yourself, how can I grab a judge’s attention? How will I make them smile or laugh?

Anyone under the age of 19 can enter.

The entry deadline is 9am (GMT), Friday 30th May 2025.

For more information, visit the competition website.

Scholastic Book Fair 2024

Celebrate Book Week Scotland 2024 with a new book from our Scholastic Book Fair.

Here’s a look at just some of the books available:                                                scholastic-secondary-selection-autumn-2024

Our book fair is open at break, lunch and after school                      (apart from Thursday 21st of November).

S1 parents can visit the book fair – and library  – on S1 parents’ night on Tuesday the 26th of November.

Tap to Pay is available and cash payments are also accepted.

Parents may use this link to order books too: https://bookfairs.scholastic.co.uk/pay/1411535

Place orders by 3pm Friday 29th of November.

 

 

 

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