On Wednesday 30st of October, two teams represented Airdrie Academy at the West of Scotland Heat of the Kids Lit Quiz held at The High School of Glasgow.
The Kids Lit Quiz is an annual global literature quiz with the winning team from each heat competing in a National Final. National champions then compete in the World Final.
Both teams worked very hard to prepare for the event and did very well on the day. Although we didn’t make the top three, the final result was close. Pupils also had the pleasure of meeting Quiz Master Wayne Mills and had the opportunity to purchase a book by visiting authors Elizabeth Wein (Code Name Verity, Black Dove White Raven), Alex Nye (For My Sins), Victoria Gemmell (Follow Me), Lindsay Littleson (Guardians of the Wild Unicorns, The Titanic Detective Agency) and Ross Sayers (Mary’s the Name, Sonny and Me).
The day was a fabulous celebration of books and reading and the pupils were a credit to the school.
The Rights Respecting School (RRS) pupil group have worked tirelessly over the month of October to raise awareness around the school. The article of the month for October was Article 27, adequate standard of living. In order to highlight how this is visible in our school the group decided to interview Ms Carlin to show the article in action within Airdrie Academy. The students were keen to learn and inform others about things already being done in the school, particularly the food bank and uniform bank. The RRS teacher working group is extremely proud of all the work and initiative being shown by the pupil group. Look out for our next teacher interview for Novemebers Article of the month from Mr Ferguson.
A great write-up in the Airdrie & Coatbridge Advertiser about our Mental Health Festival.
Thank you to our partners for making this such a sucess:
Back Onside
Samaritans
North Lanarkshire Carers Together
Voice of experience forum Airdrie
Lanarkshire Links
Stigma Free Lanarkshire
SAMH
Well Informed
Experience Counts
NHS Lanarkshire Health Improvement
School Chaplains
All students intending to apply for university next year should now be registered on UCAS. GCU have delivered a Personal Statement workshop and students should now be working on their Personal Statements. This should be submitted to PT Pupil Support by 1 November at the latest. Any questions, see Mrs Baird.
As part of NLC’s Read to Succeed initiative, Airdrie Academy had the pleasure of welcoming writer and illustrator Alex Scarrow. Alex is best known for his teen science fiction series TimeRiders.
S1 pupils were treated to Alex’s enthusiastic presentation which focused on the books he writes, the inspiration behind his writing and the creative writing process.
Pupils were enthralled by his reading of the opening first two chapters of TimeRiders book one.
After his presentation, Alex kindly stayed on to answer the many questions asked by pupils inspired by his work. Pupils also had the opportunity to purchase a book and have it signed for which there was a large queue!
RRS Group
Author Visit – Alex Scarrow
Author Visit – Alex Scarrow
All pupils are encouraged to read for pleasure and the school library has a large collection of books for pupils to access and enjoy.
Click here for more information on the Read to Succeed initiative and to complete a short survey:
Airdie Academy received the UNICEF Rights Respecting School Bronze Award in 2018. As we are continually committed to making progress at Airdrie Academy we are striving towards achieving the Silver Award this academic year.
The staff working group have been working closely with our newly formed pupil group in order to raise awareness about RRS. The group, so far, have recruited new members from S1-6 at assembly, displayed relevant articles around the school and designed an information leaflet for other pupils in the school. If you are interesting in helping take the RRS ideas forward please join the group Thursdays at lunchtime in Modern Studies.
On Wednesday 30st of October, two teams represented Airdrie Academy at the West of Scotland Heat of the Kids Lit Quiz held at The High School of Glasgow.
A representative from St Andrew’s Hospice came into the school yesterday & we had the pleasure of presenting him with 2 amazing cheques.
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