Poetry competition

 

Telling the truth about youth

Are you fed up with the way young people are viewed by society and portrayed in the media?  Now’s the time to have your say.

The challenge is simple:  you must write an original poem expressing your thoughts about perceptions and attitudes towards young people in today’s society.  The competition is open to pupils aged between 11-16.

Click on the icon above to go to the website for more details.  Deadline 29 March 2013

Secondary graphic novel competition

Renaissance Place and Raintree are challenging secondary school students to annotate and illustrate one of the following scenes/chapters in a graphic novel style consisting of no more than 12 panels:

  • Ulysses by James Joyce, Episode 12 “Cyclops”
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Chapter XVI
  • The Tempest by William Shakespeare, Act I, Scene I
  • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, Act II, Part II
Fantastic prizes are available to be won courtesy of Raintree Publishers, including an Amazon Kindle for the winning student, £100 worth of books for the winning school and a set of Shakespeare and classic graphic novels – such as Macbeth and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow .
Entries should be submitted to Mrs Üstün by 25th March 2013.

 

AR BookFinder

Now you can find out if the book you’re reading at home has an Accelerated Reader quiz. 

Just click on the icon above and get searching.  You can use Advanced Search to search for books by level or topic.  Create your own book list and take it to the library to see if we’ve got any of the books on the shelves.  If we don’t have it in our library, I can add it to our wishlist!