April 21, 2022
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All groups of pupils at Loudoun Academy have finished their picture books. Click the titles below to have a look!
Candice and the Cuddie
Gilbert the Goblin
Nessy Meets the World
Search for a Tumshie
Tam & Toorie The Rabbits Attack
Tam the Tattie
April 21, 2022
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Kilmarnock Academy pupils are now busy finishing off their picture books. Click the titles below to see stories from three of our groups:
Billy’s Boat Buddy
Nessie and her Big Adventure
Nessy and the Necklace and the Seahorse
December 21, 2021
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During late October/early November each participating school hosted a virtual workshop with Matthew Fitt.
Matthew gave pupils lots of ideas for stories for Scottish picture books. He got pupils thinking about their target audience – Primary 1 pupils.
Here are some examples of work by Kilmarnock Academy pupils (Drookit Dug, Crabbit Craw, Muckle Moose and The Muckle Heid Hoolet):
December 21, 2021
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With home-learning in place from January 2021, the start of our project was delayed until August. We made this decision as we knew we wouldn’t have time to complete the project before pupils moved on to their new timetable in May/June.
While we were waiting to start, we got in touch with our storyteller, Betty Skelton, who agreed to provide pre-recorded workshops and activities to support pupils with the project. We also reached out to author and Scots language enthusiast, Matthew Fitt and illustrator, Kate Leiper, who were delighted to be on board. Both Matthew and Kate agreed to host virtual workshops with each school when we were ready!
In August, we ordered a set of books for each participating school. We included examples of picture books, stories in Scots and treasuries of Scottish folklore and fairy tales.
December 10, 2020
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Thank you for taking the time to visit our blog.
We are happy to announce that our bid to the Scottish Government School Library Improvement Fund was successful and we will start work on our Scots Stories project in January!
Scots Stories will see four East Ayrshire secondary schools working with S1/2 pupils to produce picture books with a Scottish theme and/or written in Scots.
First, each school will have a workshop with a professional storyteller to explore stories, including traditional Scottish tales and how they are told. Pupils will work in small groups to come up with an idea for their picture book.
Then, pupils will work with a Scottish author to develop their idea and write the text for their stories. They’ll get help to include Scots in their writing.
Once we have our text, an illustrator will help pupils to create drawings to go along with their story.
When it’s complete, we will get a volume of stories printed for each school. Pupils will also create a digital resource including audio of their story being read aloud. We will share this with our feeder primary schools and with families in our school communities.
Watch this space if you want to follow our project!
