Skills Development Scotland (SDS)Aberdeen now have a Facebook page. It contains information on careers ,job opportunities, employability help, links to the MyWoW tools, local education and training provision etc. The careers adviser encourages all pupils in the senior years to access it!
Monthly Archives: February 2014
Big Book Theory – Quiz for WBD
Aberdeen University is hosting a Teen Book Quiz on Thursday 6th March from 5-6.30pm. Get a team together and register your team to take part. To register email scc.learning@abdn.ac.uk or phone (01224) 273047 or 273048. Follow them on twitter @scc_aberdeen #BigBookTheory and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SpecialCollectionsCentreUniversityofAberdeen
Get writing!
Henrietta Branford Writing Competition
Yes another writing competition for you! The Henrietta Branford Writing Competition, which aims to find new writers of the future, is now open and anyone under the age of 19 can enter. The winners will have the opportunity to meet bestselling author Jacqueline Wilson!
Entrants are invited to complete a spooky story begun by the winner of last year’s Branford Boase Award for debut writers, Dave Shelton, who won for his book, A Boy and a Bear in a Boat.
The story should be no longer than 1500 words, must follow on from the starter paragraph, and have a title.
All entrants must live in the UK and be under 19 years of age. The closing date for the competition is Friday 18 April 2014. Click here for more information.
Competitions!
Aged 13 or under? Why not enter the BBC’s 500 words short story competition. Deadline Wednesday 26th of February http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00rfvk1
Are you a big Jacqueline Wilson fan? Draw or paint a pet portrait and you could win a copy of her new book Paws and Whiskers and lots of other goodies. Deadline Friday 28th of February http://www.worldbookday.com/competitions/five-sets-of-paws-and-whiskers-goodies-to-be-won/
Pupils in 5th or 6th year can still enter Aberdeenshire’s crime and mystery festival crime writing competition as the deadline has been extended until 28 February 2014. Download the introduction here http://www.nts.org.uk/Unsolved/Competition/
Pupils of all ages! It’s not too late to enter the WICKED YOUNG WRITERS AWARD. You are free to write about what you want – either in prose or poems and can write as many entries as you like. Deadline 31 March 2014. For more details visit the competition website http://wickedyoungwriters.com/
