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Cracker winners
Well done to all the pupils who put in the extra effort over the Christmas holidays and completed their 2 book cracker.
Here is a selection of the best reasons for reading at Christmas.
Reading at Christmas time is the best because…
“Its cold outside” Ben
“You have lots of time to relax, you can drink hot chocolate and you are still doing your English but not in class.” Erin
“It teaches you to appreciate what you have and be grateful you have a family.” Sara
“You can sit cosy and read whilst watching people silly enough to go outside in a storm, battling with their brolly.” Rachel
“It relaxes you in-between the chaos of family life at Christmas and gives you an excuse to get away from annoying members of your family.” Josh
“When you are cold you can snuggle up in your blankets and just read a book to relax. After that you can go for a wee sleep.” Portia
“I can sit on the sofa or bed in my PJs reading. I can have a cosy night with peppermint hot chocolate in my bed with fluffy slippers.” Emma
“I curl up next to the fireplace and the Christmas tree and read my book.” Sonia
“It is relaxing, fun and an enjoyable thing to do at this special time of year.” Alistair
“You get to cuddle up beside the fire and dig into a good book. You can stay up all night just reading and reading. Once you have read all the books you can go out and get more- they are on sale!” Zaynah
“You can curl up with a good book and hot chocolate, while it’s cold outside and you are all nice and toasty in the house with your head in another world.” Rhianna
“It relaxes you and takes away all the stress of Christmas; waiting for Santa to come.” Evy
“You can add in an extra helping of excitement to the fun of Christmas by reading an enthralling novel.”Zainah
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And the winners
“I am not going to be all cheesy and say the best thing about reading at Christmas is because I sit down and drink hot chocolate while reading.
I like reading books at Christmas because I read before bed and it helps me fall asleep quickly because at Christmas time I can’t get to sleep because I am so excited. P.S I love reading!” Olivia
“You can snuggle up on your bed or your couch in your pyjamas and get cosy whilst reading a good book.” Robbie
“You get to relax and it’s something you can look forward to; reading the next day.” Sophie
Holocaust Memorial Day – Inge Auerbacher
As part of St.Ninian’s commemorations for Holocaust memorial Day we were honoured to welcome an amazing woman… Inge Aurbacher.
Inge’s story
Inge Auerbacher the only child of Regina and Berthold Auerbacher, was born in 1934, a year after the Nazis came to power. She lived in a small village in southern Germany where her father had his own textile business.
On the night of November 9th, 1938, just before Inge’s fourth birthday, countrywide acts of terror and destruction were carried out against Germany’s Jews. Inge’s father was arrested and sent to a concentration camp. After his release a few weeks later, the family realized the need to leave the country, but they had nowhere to go. They moved to her mother’s home town. Inge could no longer attend the local public school. In 1941, she was forced to wear the yellow star. In late 1941, Inge, her parents and her grandmother were told to report for “resettlement.” Her father, a disabled World War I veteran, obtained a postponement, but her grandmother was sent to Latvia where she was murdered.
On August 22, 1942, Inge and her parents were arrested and deported. Forced to leave all their possessions behind, they were sent to the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia. Conditions were horrendous. Always hungry, Inge and her parents constantly lived with the fear that they would be deported to the death camps in Poland. In the spring of 1945, the Germans began building gas chambers in Theresienstadt, where they planned to kill all the remaining Jews. But on May 8, 1945, Soviet troops entered the ghetto and ten year-oldInge and her parents were freed.
Of the 15,000 children who had been imprisoned at Theresienstadt, only 100 survived and Inge is one of them.
We would like to thank Inge for coming to the school and for being so gracious as to hand out awards for pupils S1-S6 who had successfully taken part in our creative responses competition.
As time moves on our opportunities to meet witnesses to these atrocities , to ask them questions and to feel their passion, diminishes. Inge left us with her story, some hugs and plenty of inspiration “it is your job to be everything today for those who are not here” and who can argue with that.
On Wednesday 27th a group of pupils will be attending the Scottish National Holocaust Memorial Day event at Falkirk town hall where we will be able to meet us with Inge again.
Pictures of the event
Holocaust Memorial Day Winners
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This is a selection of the winning entries to our Holocaust Memorial Day Creative Responses Competition 2016.
Pupils were asked to respond on the theme “Don’t Stand By” in the format of either a post-card, poem or photograph.
Winners will attend the national service in Falkirk Town Hall and also be presented with their certificates of achievement by Inge Auerbacher one of only 100 child survivors of Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia.
Many thanks to all the pupils who took the time to take part.
Dear Mum,
hope you are doing well. Did you hear what was on the television? It was a man called Martin Luther King Jr. He stood up for his rights which he deserved. He didn’t just stand and listen to people say thing that are not true about his friends and family. He stood up and said “I have a dream” he spoke to 200,000 – 300,000 dissidents and millions of television viewers. I was one of them, he was very inspirational. I think that we should do something to help him. Maybe we should start a campaign or try to change the rights so he gets the rights he deserves. What are your thoughts please write back soon.
Love you lots,
Grace xxx</strong>
I just stood there, I didn’t move, even if I wanted to it wouldn’t be possible. Not then at least. Where I found myself was the history corridor of my school third period had just ended and I was headed to French but I was delayed because of something, that something being what I was seeing, my classmate on the floor and a beefy figure stood over him grinning while my classmate squirmed to get free of his iron grip. At that moment I had two choices: stay and help him or leave him to fend for himself. In the end I chose option B. as I would soon find out that was the wrong choice. Fast forward four weeks later that same boy the one I left to fend for himself was in front of me, he had many emotions on his face in the thirty seconds we were there, happiness wasn’t one of them. I couldn’t bare to look him in the face so when we had contact I averted my eyes so I wouldn’t have to look at what me being a coward had done to him, but I couldn’t just look away, I had to make sure that he was ok. He wasn’t. he had bruises all over his face and his eyes and lips were very puffy but also bright purple, still to this day I wonder what would have happened if I didn’t just stand by, I won’t make the same mistake again.
By James
It makes me wonder, wonder all day
What happened? To make people this way?
How can they watch? And merely stand by
As hundreds upon thousands of people … Die
These people shan’t be overlooked and neglected!
How can’t we feel? How can’t we be affected ‽
Have we fallen to a point, in our world and society
Where we lose all sense of humanity and piety?
We are one. We are the same. We are the human race,
And despite all differences, we all end up in the same place.
So all across the nations I say, open the doors! Let them in!
Because when we learn to love, that’s when life, truly begins.
By Tom
The person who hides behind a computer screen
Fingers typing hate filled messages
Click of a button that changes it all
The victim innocent and alone
Thoughts that could end a life
Coward of a bully who destroys it all
Their future, dreams, ambitions crushed
As nobody helped
People will die.
Don’t stand by.
By Maria
Excelsior!
Have you been inspired by recent library lessons? Are you a DC devotee or a Marvel maniac?
If so you might want to pop in to the library very soon to participate in this year’s Excelsior awards.
There are 8 great titles in the Senior Category and 5 in the Junior section.
How many you choose to read is up to you.
How do I get involved?
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All you have to do is read one of the books or two of the books or all of the books – how many is purely up to you. And with choices from Darth Vader to Dr Who to Oddly Normal and Ant Man there really is something for everyone (even a wee bitty o Manga for the back to front gang).
Senior selection
Junior selection
So whether you only read comics or have never read comics – come in and take part.
Boo!
It’s raining books from UNDER the Umbrella
Huge thanks to Umbrella Education for picking @stninianslib reviewers as their first ever #readyouAToZ competition winners.
We received a lovely box of brand shiny new books which were eagerly snapped up by my brilliant pupils.
The books are already being read and will be reviewed for the next AtoZ and who knows we might even win again.. now I wonder where did those biscuits that were in the box go to….?
If you would like to review some books for this competition – just get in touch – any age- any stage- all welcome!
Holocaust Memorial Day
Prize winners accepting their awards from Ela and Hasan
We were very fortunate to be able to spend some time with Holocaust survivor Ela Stein Weissburger and survivor of the attrocities at Srebrebica Hasan Hasanovic.
The message from each speaker was simialar; Hasan reminded us of the fact that genocide still continues in some parts of the world and that we must remember each act and honour those who have been lost in a meaningful way and Ela spoke of the need to remember her friends and teachers and to live in remembrance of them.
The fact that Ela still had her yellow star and brough it with her was a touching and moving moment for the pupils assembled.
Many thanks to both Ela and Hasan for coming to the school and the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust for supporting the event.
If you would like to know more about the holocaust or events in other parts of the world take a look at the HMDT web site or pop in to the library for some books.
Holocaust Memorial Day Competition
Congratulations to our creative writing competition winners:
S1
Winner – Easham Manzar
Runner Up -Diarmaid Leahy
S2
Winner – Lily Collins
Runner Up -Holly Edgar
S3
Winner – Amy Harte
Runner Up – Emma Murphy
Excerpts from the winning entries:
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S1 Winner
To Amy,
If I had known, known that coming into this world as a Tutsi was such a crime, then I would have wished I were never born. If I had known, Known that coming into Rwanda would cause such a war, and then I would have wished I had never came. If I would have known, known that the village where my home was would turn into a graveyard, then I would have never considered it a home. If I would have known, known that I would see my family get killed right in front of my eyes, then I would have wished that it wouldn’t have hurt as much as it did. If I had known, known that I would hear the screams of pain, then I would have wished that it wouldn’t play in my head whenever there was a silence. If I had known, known that the cause of death of millions of lives were because they were a certain race then would have wished that I could stand up for us Tutsis. If I had known, known that all this would happen then I would have wished that racism and hatred was never a thing, if only I had known,
Yours sincerely
Easham, xxx
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S2 Winner
“It was 1944 in Germany, Adolf Hitler was Führer – you were only 4 or 5 years old at the time. Your father was a politician who had been arrested for being a traitor, and the soldiers continued their search for the rest of your family -simply for being Jewish. Your family -you, your mum and brother -were in hiding to avoid the terrible fate of being moved to concentration camps.
One night Nazi soldiers captured your family and were taken to a train where hundreds of German Jewish citizens were forced to board. Your mother held you and your brother so tightly and close to herself -scared to let go. When you finally reached the camp and left the train, you had your hair shaved, males and females were separated and were all given a striped uniform. The smell of burning was unforgettable and the screams and cries in the distance sent cold shivers through the new arrivals.
The group of females were surrounded by guards but there was a gap that you could just fit through without being noticed. So, your mum told you to run as far and as fast as you could – not stopping, not looking back until you reached the Red Cross and could tell them you needed a new family.”
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S3 Winner
Dearest Anna,
I am writing to thank you. Thank you for the times you shared with me in that hell. Although these words may mean so much to you they mean the world to me. When I think of how you kept me alive, I cry. I cry not out of sorrow or out of hatred for what the Nazis did to us but for the love and joy I feel knowing that you, my best friend, gave me a life worth fighting for. I do not want these memories of the camp filled with horror, sorrow and disgust. I want us to remember how we found friendship in the most unlikely of places. Although we shall not be around forever, we must keep the memory alive because if we so not all that suffering will be for nothing. Pass it on through the generations. Write these letters and let the world continue to remember what awful sufferings we encountered so it will never happen again. Pass it on to the children like Miriam, my sweet Miriam, who you Anna, you saved with your kindness and sacrifice; when you starved to save my poor child although yours was gone. Keep it alive. No matter what happens we should never let these memories slip away. I’m missing you dearly but we will meet again soon,
Sending lots of love, kind wishes and gratitude from Berlin,
Isabelle and Miriam x
Scottish Book Trust Reviews
Have you been shadowing the SBT awards?
Or did you just pick up one by accident and want to let the world know it was good/bad/indifferent.
Well just follow the link here and you could win a prize.
Try to make your review interesting and enlightening, which is quite a tough task when reviews must only be 200 words long.
Good Luck.
Titles that can be reviewed are :
The 13th Horseman by Barry Hutchison
Code name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
The Prince who Walked with Lions by Elizabeth Laird
Competition Winners
Many thanks to all who entered the 12 word of Christmas competition.
We have over 300 entries the best ever for a library competition.
Many thanks to all who entered the 12 words of Christmas competition.
Over 300 entries were received.
So, who are the lucky, lucky winners?
*drum roll*
The winners:
Staff- Mrs Stephen – “The recent decline in the economy meant Santa couldn’t come to town”
Mrs Stephen wins a signed copy of Day by A.L Kennedy.
Pupil – Aodhan Gallagher – “The nurses transformed the old man’s last Christmas into his first Christmas.”
Aodhan wins a signed copy of Cosmic by Frank Cottrell Boyce and his entry will be forwarded to the national competition where he may just win a shiny new IPod touch.
Look out for more competition in the library you nevere know the next winner could be you!
