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Erika’s Suitcase Project

May 3, 2023 Ms Ustun Leave a comment

Come and learn about the life of Erika Schulhof Rybeck, a young Austrian girl who came to Aberdeen on the Kindertransport.

Then read and review our books on refugees.

Erika's Suitcase Reading Challenge — Erika’s Suitcase Reading Challenge

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AudiobookSYNC 2023

May 3, 2023 Ms Ustun Leave a comment

AudiobookSYNC is back for another year!!

Yes, another season of fantastic free audiobooks is here. Just sign up at https://audiofilemagazine.com/sync/

Follow the instructions on the slides below 🙂

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Audiobooksync2022

April 27, 2022 Ms Ustun

SYNC is a FREE summer audiobook program for teens 13+.

SYNC gives you two paired audiobooks each week.

First register for SYNC at audiofilemagazine.com/sync. Then set up Sora on your device.

Watch this step by step presentation for more details 😉

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The reading year so far

March 15, 2021 Ms Ustun Leave a comment

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Quizzers keep on quizzing

March 15, 2021 Ms Ustun Leave a comment

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#BringingBooksToLife challenge for WBD

March 5, 2021 Ms Ustun Leave a comment

Some great entries in our challenge for World Book Day.

Tom from 1C1 made The Cat in the Hat. Leila 1C1 made Matilda, Miss Wright Frankenstein’s monster, and Mrs Skelly made Paddington and Elmer the patchwork elephant.

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Bumper Book Quiz for World Book Day 2021!

March 3, 2021 Ms Ustun Leave a comment

Calling all S1 and S2 pupils!

Do you love reading?

Would you like to win a £10 Amazon voucher?

Then this is for you!

Follow the link on your English classroom page or email me at: gw10ustunalison@ab-ed.org

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AR Fab February

March 1, 2021 Ms Ustun Leave a comment

It’s time to congratulate all the pupils who were busy reading and quizzing in February.

A total of 99 quizzes were passed, 419.5 points earned and 2,88,424 words read!! Our top readers were Eleanor with a total of 415,322 words and Julia who passed 57 quizzes!!