The World According to Elaine and Moira

The final book giftings from the National Literacy’s National Young Readers’ Programme are happening this week.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, well I think the one above does just that. However, click on it and see another picture that says it all!

Here are the fantastic books short listed for the Award this year. Click here to find out more…

The Picture Book Training is almost complete. All over the City our pupils have been demonstrating their skills.

Ms Reilly, SS Peter &Paul, took some great photos of her pupils practising their technique 😀

This week we have been training P6 pupils to read picture books to an audience.

Steve Soave, 81 Films, was able to accompany Elaine to some classes and you can get a flavour of how her training sessions went down here. It was lovely to see some pupils feeling confident enough to read to their class. Great training Elaine, fantastic learning P6!

This week has been such a treat! Every class has made us feel so welcome. Pupils have demonstrated fantastic listening skills and engaged enthusiastically with the books.

The mature approach, comments and attitude of the children has been extremely impressive. Elaine and I are very excited about our visits to train pupils in the art of reading to the P1s!

Once again Steve Soave, 81 Films, has kindly given us permission to use his photographs. They give a wee insight into the way the P6’s are getting stuck into the job of analysing the picture book genre.

Well it has started! Yes we have been out and about meeting the Primary 6 pupils taking part in this year’s Picture Book Award.

Steve Soave, 81 Films, has been accompanying us to some classes to capture what goes on! He’s also taken some photos which you can view here along with photos we have taken as well. Can you guess which ones were taken by the professional? I bet you can:-)

5 hours of wrapping and worth every minute! Once again, the customers at Waterstones have supported the Wishing Tree with incredible generosity and thoughtfulness. Dundee Young Carers are in for a wonderful treat when they receive their presents at their Christmas party tomorrow.

A huge thank you  to everyone involved 😁

The exhibition is now open! St. Ninian’s P3 watched on, and counted down, as Vivian French cut the ribbon 😀 The children’s work will be on display until Monday 18th December in Menzieshill Library. However, if you can’t manage along, click here for a virtual view. Also, check out P3’s very own Blog for lots more photos of the event.

Teams from seven of our secondaries gathered at Baldragon Academy for this annual Literary Quiz. It was a tightly fought contest with impressive book knowledge on display. Click here to see the teams and find out which was the worthy winner 😀

Michelle Sloan, author of The Fourth Bonniest Baby in Dundee, launched this year’s Wishing Tree with kind words and aplomb!

If you would like to gift a book to a Young Carer nip along to Waterstones, between now and Saturday 17th December, select a tag from the tree and buy a book. On Monday 18th Elaine and I will wrap up all the books and deliver them to the Dundee Young Carers’ Centre where they will be distributed at the Christmas Party. Bish, bash, bosh!