Category Archives: Reading for pleasure

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

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.

Winter Mini Challenge

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.