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Category Archives: Reading for pleasure
Book Week Scotland Quiz S1-S6
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.
Congratulations to our winners, Maria and Ms Fyfe 🙂
Book Week Scotland 2025
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 🙂
Teachers’ Reading Challenge 2025
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!
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What on Earth! magazine
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
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
Young People’s Book Prize – S1 Science
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.
Book Poster Competition
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.
Teachers’ Reading Challenge 2024
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 😉
