{"id":2290,"date":"2015-02-24T14:39:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T14:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salibblog.wordpress.com\/?p=2107"},"modified":"2015-02-24T14:39:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T14:39:23","slug":"world-book-day-competitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/2015\/02\/24\/world-book-day-competitions\/","title":{"rendered":"World Book Day &amp; Competitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Book Day takes place on the first Thursday in March &#8211; next week 5th March. Once again, we are planning a few activities around this national celebration of Reading for Pleasure. It is hoped both pupils and staff will get involved. The following is planned for 5<sup>th<\/sup> March. Some (or all) will hopefully be taking place.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Bookish Event<\/strong> in library at Lunchtime on Thursday 5<sup>th<\/sup> March. Snacks and drinks provided.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Book swap<\/strong> \u2013 swap your unwanted books with the selection available.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peedie Book Fair<\/strong> \u2013 courtesy of Stromness Books &amp; Prints. There will be a small selection of books available for sale in the library.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Teen Book Club<\/strong> \u2013 Scholastic book club leaflets available. Earn new books for the school library by purchasing books. Order online at: <a href=\"http:\/\/schools.scholastic.co.uk\/stromness-academy\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration:underline\">http:\/\/schools.scholastic.co.uk\/stromness-academy<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Shelfies Competition<\/strong> \u2013 Match staff to pictures of their book shelves. Easter Eggs for prizes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Display<\/strong> \u2013 Classroom door posters: What teachers and other staff are reading.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Drawing Competition: <\/strong>There will also be a National Book Token competition running throughout the month of March and this will also be launched next week. Pupils can design a new book-themed token using the template provided . There are three categories: up to 8 years, 9\u201312 years, 13\u201316 years. An overall winner will be used on a real book token. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2015\/02\/1974_thumb.gif\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2109\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2015\/02\/1974_thumb.gif?w=150\" alt=\"1974_thumb\" width=\"150\" height=\"79\" \/><\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2015\/02\/1975_thumb.gif\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2110\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2015\/02\/1975_thumb.gif?w=150\" alt=\"1975_thumb\" width=\"150\" height=\"79\" \/><\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2015\/02\/1985_thumb.gif\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-2111\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2015\/02\/1985_thumb.gif?w=150\" alt=\"1985_thumb\" width=\"150\" height=\"79\" \/><\/strong><\/a><small>Examples of tokens from: National Book Tokens:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalbooktokens.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> www.nationalbooktokens.com\/<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong><span class=\"s3\">FIRST PRIZE<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s4\"><b> in each age range is:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p3\"><b>\u00a3250<\/b> National Book Tokens for the school<\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\"><b>\u00a3100<\/b> <span class=\"s1\">National Book Tokens for the school child <\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\"><b>\u00a3100<\/b> National Book Tokens for the teacher<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong><span class=\"s3\">RUNNER-UP PRIZE<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s4\"><b> in each age range is:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p3\"><b>\u00a3150<\/b> National Book Tokens for the school<\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\"><b>\u00a350<\/b> <span class=\"s1\">National Book Tokens for the school child<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\"><b>\u00a350<\/b> National Book Tokens for the teacher<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Further details can be obtained from the <a title=\"WBD Book Token competition\" href=\"http:\/\/worldbookday.com\/competitions\/token\/\" target=\"_blank\">World Book Day website<\/a>. Entry forms available <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/public\/stromnessacademylibrary\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2015\/02\/nbt-comp1.pdf\">here<\/a>\u00a0or collect one from the school library. Entries should be handed in by the end of term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Book Day takes place on the first Thursday in March &#8211; next week 5th March. Once again, we are planning a few activities around this national celebration of Reading for Pleasure. It is hoped both pupils and staff will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/2015\/02\/24\/world-book-day-competitions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,5974,373],"tags":[19919,19931,19924],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-competitions","category-world-book-day","tag-books","tag-competitions","tag-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/or\/stromnessacademylibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}