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Transition

School Librarians’ Guide to Oz

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This is a brilliant challenge especially for pupils in P7 joining us in August, all based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Taking part is really simple

  1. Look at the blog – you need to log into Glow to see it properly

2. Try the first challenges.

3. If you like it so far, read the first chapter. We’ve given you a link to read the book for free. You can even listen to a free version right now.

4. After each chapter look back at the blog, and try out some of challenges – as many as you like.

5. If you want to share your thoughts or your work with us, you can sign up to the Oz Team and  send us photos! We’ll share them with everyone else on Twitter so everyone can see how awesome you are.

Look on the OLHS Transition Team  on Glow for the code, and watch the Twitter account @schliboz.

Any other questions, just contact the school office and I’ll get back to you.

Audiobooks, Books, English, Literacy, Modern Languages, Primary resources, Resources

MyOn books and MyOn News

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MyOn from Renaissance is a huge collection of easy reading books (over 7000) currently available for free.

Each book can be read aloud (and you can change the speed as you need), there’s a dictionary, a zoom function, and you can search or browse by category.

No need to sign up for anything, just hit Read.

https://readon.myon.co.uk/library/browse.html

There’s also MyOn News which provides daily articles, again in an easy to read way, but again there are added extras: you can change the news article into French or Spanish, which can also be read to you; you can change the font size; view where the story is taking pace on a map; watch connected videos and slideshows

https://readon.myon.co.uk/news/index.html

Drama, Resources, Theatre

More National Theatre At Home

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Each show is available for a week for free on the National Theatre YouTube channel, with new shows every Thursday.

Competitions, Creativity, Films, Storytelling, Videos

Nature in your Neighbourhood – Film making competition

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From Into Film

We want children and young people to create a short film and use nature and their surroundings in an engaging and creative way, to capture the calmness and document something they’ve noticed or appreciated while spending more time in their local area. Whether it’s in the garden, the local park, or even from inside the home, the natural world is all around us. Encourage children to get creative and use their natural surroundings to make a short film, 3 mins or under in length (including titles and credits) using what equipment you have in the home. Films can be made on a mobile phone, tablet or camera, and we have a range of filmmaking resources to help support you.

There’s lots of advice, resources and information (including the prizes) at the address below

https://www.intofilm.org/competitions/16

Closing date: Friday 19th June