Category Archives: Languages and Literacy

English

Russian Letter Exchange

Miss Craig is looking for pupils from every year to take part in a letter exchange with students from St Petersburg.

This is part of a programme which will not only help the Russian pupils to improve their use of the English language but will also act as a fantastic opportunity for you to make new and interesting friends in a different country, share things about yourself and your culture and maybe learn a little Russian along the way!

You can choose to email or send letters for your discussions and would be a fantastic opportunity to access a different culture!

We already have a number of pupils interested and would love to get even more, particularly from the older years.

If anyone is interested can please get in touch with Miss Craig.

Languages and Literacy

Short movies

S1 pupils at Northfield Academy worked on a cross curricular project to research a Scottish Scientist and turn their research into a short comic. They were encouraged and inspired by the enthusiasm of Allan Burnett (author of “Invented in Scotland”) and our fantastic Patrons of Reading metaphrog.
Three comics were selected by metaphrog as best suiting the criteria of the challenge. These comics were then photographed frame by frame and music composed in S1 music classes to create these short films. 
The project was supported through the Scottish Book Trust Live Literature Fund and organised by School Librarian Mandy Wilson.
Languages and Literacy

Sky Academy

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Mrs Mackintosh’s English class were offered the opportunity to to visit the Sky Academy Skills Studio in Livingston, as part of a media unit they were studying. After working on scripts and roles for two weeks in class, 21 pupils traveled to the studios in Livingston On Thursday 21st May 2015, ready to create their report about cyberbullying.

Once there the class split into their groups and took on their roles. Presenters got to choose their wardrobe and practice talking to camera, there were camera operators, directors and producers who told people what to do and when and there were editors who used some high tech touch screens to cut out the bloopers leaving a high quality video.

There was then a tour of the call center where we learned that celebrities get through to a special area and that even the Queen has Sky.Each pupil got some goodies to take home and arrived in Aberdeen tired but delighted.

English

Trailer: Say my Name by James Dawson

Top marks to Jordyn and Jordan in Mrs Mackintosh’s S2 English class for winning first place in the book trailer competition at the Grampian Children’s Book Award. They created a book trailer for shortlisted book Say my Name by James Dawson.

The Grampian Children’s Book Award is judged by S1 – S3 pupils in Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire and Moray. A lively awards ceremony led by award winning Cathy MacPhail and a panel of 3 of the shortlisted authors (James Dawson, Dave Cousins and Kevin Brooks) kept school pupils from across the region enthralled and entertained at the event at Aberdeen University. Author James Dawson was pronounced 2015 winner to great applause.