Scottish Book Trust Reviews:

Boclair Academy’s S1 and S2 students have been working hard to produce reviews of their favourite books for the Scottish Book Trust. Click on the link above to read their published reviews

S3 and S4 media students had the opportunity to develop their media literacy skills last week when they attended a screening of sci-fi drama ‘Arrival’ at the Odeon Quay cinema as part of the Into Film Festival.

S4 students were also working on developing their speaking skills in media last week. Taking on the role of director, they delivered persuasive presentations about how their films met the needs of their target audiences and demonstrated their knowledge of different aspects of film language.

Here are a selection of entries for the Boclair Academy National Poetry Day competition. The task was to produce a poem that was inspired by the school’s values: Honesty, Respect, Fairness and Achievement. Well done to everyone who entered!

S2 student Lewis Fraser is enjoying reading the novel ‘A Medal for Leroy’ by Michael Morpurgo with his mentor, Jenna Fraser. Lewis describes the book as a ‘dramatic mystery’ about a young boy and his family dealing with identity and loss.

For a helpful guide on how to develop your speaking, listening, reading and writing skills at home, have a look at the following presentation.

Literacy at Home

National Poetry Day on the 28^th of September is fast approaching, and to celebrate Boclair Academy is holding a poetry writing competition for all pupils in S1 – S3. Boclair’s Literacy Champions will be launching the competition at next week’s assemblies. Watch this space for further details.

The Paired Reading programme began this week, with 30 of Boclair’s S6 pupils mentoring their S1 and S2 literacy buddies to help develop reading skills. S2 pupil Emma Forey and her S6 mentor Jo-Anne Alexander have been reading the novel Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo this week. Emma had this to say about the book: “It’s different from other books I have read because it’s set during the First World War. I’ve just started it, but I’m enjoying it so far and looking forward to finding out what happens to the characters.”

The Literacy senior buddies have now volunteered and are ready for training.  Watch this space for the launch of our new peer reading programme coming soon…….