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!
Join Harlaw Quizzers on Google Classroom:Â egqoxx5
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 Ãœstün 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
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-S2Â 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
I was invited along to the science department by Dr Yeates today for the grand unboxing of this year’s Young People’s Book Prize 2024 shortlist from The Royal Society. S1 pupils will read the books in their science classes over the coming months before voting for their favourites.
Congratulations to the lucky winners of our competition! You can see some of the winning entries below 😉
We braved the snow to see Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse at Cineworld Queens Links. It was fantastic!
I can’t believe it ended on a cliff hanger!!!
Here are some of our pupils’ book posters.
The Teachers’ Reading Challenge is over for another year. I beat my target by one book – reading 16 books from different genres.
Here are the books that I read.
You can find them displayed in the library along with other recommendations. Why don’t you try reading one.
Happy reading 😉
Calling all 11-14 year olds!
Join the Reading Agency’s Winter Mini Challenge
Read at least 3 books of your choice between the 1st of December and the 19th of February and add them to your profile at wintermini.org.uk
Reaching your reading goal will unlock a limited-edition virtual badge and a special Winter Mini Challenge certificate to print off and keep.
There are lots of fun activities for you too – with games, book reviews, activities, and videos from the best children’s authors and illustrators around.
