The theme of this year’s Book Week Scotland is friendship, so with this in mind, our whole school competition will look at famous friends from well-known books.
The prize for pupils will be a £10 Amazon voucher. The staff winner will get a box of chocolates.
The competition will be posted on Monday the 17th November, so watch this space 😉
It’s Book Week Scotland from the 17th to the 23rd of November!
To celebrate, we have a competition for S1 and S2 pupils.
S1/S2 competition
Enter our competition to design a dragon. 15 lucky entrants will win a place on a trip to see How to Train Your Dragon at the cinema on Wednesday the 26th of November.
Don’t miss the deadline on Wednesday the 19th November. See below for more information 🙂
It’s Teachers’ Reading Challenge time again 🙂
Until the end of October, teachers have been challenged to read and explore children’s and YA fiction.
Ask your teachers about what they’ve been reading and give them your suggestions.
Look what we’ve been reading so far!
Check the library noticeboard and our Google Classroom each week 🙂
Join Harlaw Quizzers on Google Classroom: egqoxx5
ANNOUNCEMENT:
Craft club will be on Thursday NOT Friday on these dates:
Thursday 13th November (Friday 14th November is an in-service)
Thursday 20th November (Library closed on the 21st November)
Come along every Friday from 3.05 – 4pm.
Materials are provided – just bring your imagination.
Join our group on Google Classroom: sbb4tih
Here are some of the projects members created this week 🙂
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.
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.
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.
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 read all the past issues too.
Just follow this link to access the Digital Editions.
Ask Mrs Üstün for the password, or send me an email alison.ustun@ab-ed.org
