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More epicness from our recent #PoetrySlam for #HorrorHaiku

October 26, 2017 by Miss Stewart | 0 comments

 

Yesterday really was so much fun, and so inspiring; watching pupils #counting out the syllables to make their menacingly magnificent meme. 😉

A putrid prize will be presented to the winning #HorrorHaiku on Hallowe’en!

 

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It’s a bacon thing… #maisondieu #Alt_Fairytales #BigBadWolf

September 5, 2017 by Miss Stewart | 0 comments

 

Maisondieu Primary 7 pupils get to grips with ‘narrative voice’ and ‘point of view’ by assuming the roles of Reporter and Big Bad Wolf, as per Jon Scieszka’s hilarious alternative fairytale, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. 🙂

Part of Brechin High School’s transition work with cluster primaries, the library has been visiting Maisondieu Primary to work with Mrs Bathgate’s amazing P7s on various group work-based writing prompts. We plan to adapt Scieszka’s book into a play next, and stage a performance. Watch this Space! 😀

I’ve been having SO much fun doing these literacy-based lessons. And I mustn’t forget to mention senior pupil Chris G., who has been on hand to help out as my glamorous assistant; part of his Senior Responsibility obligations.

So anyway, apparently the wolf was framed; it’s all ‘fake news’, and the little pigs were already gonners when he ate them. Hey, don’t judge; as the P7s told me this morning – it’s a bacon thing! 😀

Thanks for having us, Maisondieu! See you next week. 😉

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August 2, 2017
by Miss Stewart
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The North East’s Finest

I follow the Edinburgh International Book Festival and they’ve just shared this link to the Aberdeen Booked! Festival Have a read; the advertised event – in late August – looks brilliant! 🙂 Last year’s Unbound – a free cabaret-style session of readings and music – … Continue reading

June 21, 2017
by Miss Stewart
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The floor is lava..? Yeah, whatever.

So, the other week, when the normally ‘cred’ obsessed teenagers in my library all started scrambling for the safe higher ground – ie, the modular library seating – to spontaneous shrieks of, “The floor is lava!”, I thought nothing of … Continue reading

June 19, 2017
by Miss Stewart
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Meet children’s author, Lari Don!

Found this on my FB feed. :O Lari’s a wonderful storyteller; don’t miss this amazing, literary ‘day out’ for all your little readers, and budding authors! 😉 Photo credit: Galloway Children’s Festival

June 19, 2017
by Miss Stewart
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Debating the Grenfell Tower Disaster

Classrooms up and down the country will surely be discussing this appalling tragedy. The Day has produced some excellent resources for use in school, including teachers’ advice for talking about the fire with children and young people: “The Grenfell Tower fire … Continue reading

May 25, 2017
by Miss Stewart
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Fancy being on the telly?

@PrincessProductionsTV are looking for UK kids 10-14 who show great expertise/knowledge in a particular subject for exciting new TV show. See poster for details 👇 Poster found at Challenging Learning

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