{"id":5511,"date":"2017-09-20T13:43:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T13:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/?p=5511"},"modified":"2017-09-20T13:43:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T13:43:33","slug":"s1-literacy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/2017\/09\/20\/s1-literacy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"S1 LITERACY DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday 15th<\/sup> September the school continued its literacy celebrations with an S1 Literacy Day.\u00a0\u00a0 The highlight of the day was an author visit from award-winning Scottish author Cathy MacPhail.\u00a0\u00a0 Pupils were brought to the school assembly hall where they listened to Cathy talk about her creative inspiration and her many books.\u00a0\u00a0 Cathy was also happy to answer questions from the pupils about her life as a writer.\u00a0\u00a0 S1 pupils also participated in \u2018Literacy across the Curriculum\u2019 lessons during their time at the Modern Languages and Social Subjects Departments.\u00a0\u00a0 The celebrations were rounded off with a literacy themed quiz which saw S1 representatives from the school\u2019s four house groups test their knowledge of children\u2019s literature, spelling, grammar and general knowledge.\u00a0\u00a0 All teams participated well but it was Loren house who proved victorious with pupils being awarded a book token and sweets for their efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday 15th September the school continued its literacy celebrations with an S1 Literacy Day.\u00a0\u00a0 The highlight of the day was an author visit from award-winning Scottish author Cathy MacPhail.\u00a0\u00a0 Pupils were brought to the school assembly hall where they listened to Cathy talk about her creative inspiration and her many books.\u00a0\u00a0 Cathy was also … Continue reading S1 LITERACY DAY<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13966,"featured_media":5509,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14908],"tags":[662],"class_list":["post-5511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whole-school-news","tag-home"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/Braidhurst\/uploads\/sites\/12229\/2017\/09\/Author-Visit-Cathy-Macphail-15-Sep-17.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5512,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions\/5512"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}