Two free audiobooks to download each week – starts this Friday 28th Aprilhttps://www.scottishbooktrust.com/writing-and-authors/whats-your-story/storycon
50 things to do before you’re 11 3/4 [National Trust]
Also applicable to 12+
Over the summer holidays I was one of the Librarian volunteer judges for the Climate Tales creative writing competition. Young people from across Scotland were invited to enter short stories, poetry, monologues or raps of 500 words or less focusing on the environment as part of the COP26 activities.
The winners have now been announced and can be viewed on the BBC Radio Scotland Climate Tales website. Sadly my winner didn’t make it but I still loved it, so hopefully they got into the final 45.
We’re delighted that Our Lady’s is again involved in the judging for the Royal Society’s Young People’s Book Prize 2021.
The six books for this year are :
We’re planning to involve as many of our 2nd year pupils as possible, judging the books through Art, Business Education and of course, Science. Art will review the design of the books, analysing the colours, fonts, illustrations, page layouts and the cover; Business Education (via ICT classes) will look at the whole idea of the book, who it would appeal to and who might choose to buy it; and Science classes will concentrate on how whether the text can be understood, how easily information can be found and any interesting ideas that jump out at them.
Along the way, we will be discussing the various tasks involved in the creation, production, marketing and selling of the books, encouraging pupils to identify potential careers of interest to them, not just in publishing, but also retailing and science.
The judging will take place later in the year and our final collated results will be submitted to the Royal Society in January, providing our young people with a chance to share their thoughts and opinions.
Our S1 pupils are familiar with the laptops and tablets they use at primary school, all of which have trackpads or touchscreens. But the computers here at OLHS all use mice, so our new arrivals need to lean to use the mouse pretty quickly. Over time, they’ll also improve their typing and will gain skills in a variety of computer software.
To help with the typing and mouse skills, we’ve put together a collection of games and activities that require improved accuracy in moving the mouse, drawing lines, and pointing and clicking.
The list has already been enthusiastically adopted by pupils in ICT and during lunchtimes in the Library and is helping pupils adapt to the technology.
Love writing stories?
The Henrietta Branford Writing Competition 2021 is now open!
Open to anyone 19 or under.
Deadline Sun 23rd May 2021
Stories can be up to 1000 words, should have a title and connect to the starter paragraph (look at the website).
As a result of Lockdown, all Library books will be reissued until after the Easter holidays
If you want to check what you have on loan, log in to the Library catalogue.
If you are returning books, please leave them in the Library box in your English class. You could
So for everyone that was concerned about overdues, no need to worry. Be happy!
And if you’re not sure of your Library code, you can ask the OLHS office (and they’ll contact me) or ask the English teachers.
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