The Scottish Friendly Children’s Book Tour brought hilarious, award-winning author Andy Stanton to visit us here at Sound as part of their 20th Anniversary celebrations!
Andy has been a film script reader, a cartoonist and lots of other things. He has many interests, but best of all he likes cartoons, books and music (even jazz). His favourite expression is ‘good evening’ and his favourite word is ‘captain’. You’re a Bad Man, Mr Gum! was his first book and is the first in the nine part Mr Gum series, and has won two Blue Peter Book Awards and the Roald Dahl Funny Prize.
Andy inspired our pupils by talking about his own journey to becoming an author including hilarious examples of what he wrote when he was at school. He also gave pupils practical tips on using just one idea to start a story and what to do when you get stuck writing a story.
This was a fantastic opportunity for our pupils to meet one of the UK’s most exciting children’s authors and learn how to use their creativity minds to come up with stories. Our pupils loved this event and their enthusiasm for writing is currently very high.
Mrs Sjoberg and her Roald Dahl Book club went in search of Mr Willy Wonka and his chocolate factory last week during Wider Achievement Time. They had no luck in their search but were very fortunate to come across Sound’s own Mr and Mrs Wonka in the Sound Service Station. Jordan and Gemma spoke to our group about working in retail, particularly selling sweets to our local community. Our group left inspired after a very informative question and answer session in the shop.
Thanks very much to all the staff at the Sound Service Station.
We were very lucky to have a visit from the Theatre in Schools Scotland tour. They performed My Friend Selma which tells the remarkable real life story of one gorl’s journey from war in Bosnia to safety in the UK. It is the tale of an incredible journey, a world turned upside down, loss, friendship, courage and conkers. We all really enjoyed it.
Well done to our Eco Club who have been busy at our local beach- the Sands of Sound. They carried out a 2 minute beach clean and were sad to find so much plastic.
Please bring a bag to the beach when you go next and carry out your own 2 minute beach clean.
During their Wider Achievement time Mrs Grant’s group painted Rocks and hid them around Sound.
Look out for them if you’re out and about in our local community.
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Dynamic Earth visited us with their Operation Earth show. Earthy was feeling a little under the weather and had to go to the doctor for check ups. We discovered what we could do to help Earthy feel better. Recycle, avoid putting plastic into the Seas and Oceans as well as cycling and walking to school.
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