Pupils in S1 and S2 were encouraged to participate in the BBC’s “500 Word” competition recently. This competition was devised by Chris Evans to get children excited about reading and writing, no matter what their ability. Entrants must submit a story of 500 words or less and this is now one of the most successful story-writing competitions in the world. Three quarters of a million children have taken part over the years. Pupils met with Mr Reilly in the library at lunchtime and created some wonderful stories on all sorts of different themes: sentient computers, crime stories, mysteries, and superheroes, to name but a few.
We also decided to award prizes for the best stories and held an event in the school on 22 March which was attended by some of the authors and their parents and carers. It was a very difficult choice but we eventually awarded Jonathan Hayburn first prize for his thrilling crime story. Lee McCormick was awarded second place for his moving story about evacuees and Andrew Prentice came third with his story about what happened one Thursday…A big thank you to pupils, parents and staff who attended and celebrated the exceptional contribution of all our pupils.
However, we did manage to rearrange the ‘Book and Biccie’ lunchtime session in the school library and it was a lovely way to celebrate the joy of reading (and biscuits!) at the end of term.
Pupils were also invited to take part in a “Share a Story” competition by submitting a review of their favourite book and why they recommended that everyone should read it. There were many fabulous reviews and Mrs Lumsden and Ms Faulds struggled to decide the winner. However, they agreed that Kevin’s review of the Skulduggery Pleasant series should win first prize and Lauren and Jack were worthy runners up with their excellent reviews. Thank you to Mrs Galloway for presenting the prizes.
upils recently participated in a writing competition with Young Writers, an organisation which aims to encourage and inspire children to engage in creative writing. Their ‘Welcome to Wonderland’ challenge asked students to write a story about a fictional world using just 100 words. We are delighted to announce that S2 pupils, Kenzie and Jennifer, were successful and their stories will be included in a book which will be published next year. Well done, girls!
