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SHOW AND TELL
Visit by DFM John Swinney
Elgin Academy
14 February 2017
Dynamic,
diverse &
dizzyingly
active centre
of the school
BOOK CLUBS & BOOK TALK PROGRAMME
AH Dissertation tutorial Working with the Auschwitz Ambassadors
Novelties Book Club
Comic Characters Graphic Novel Club S2 Book Talks – Happy Readers
BOOK AWARDS
The Novelties Book Club pupils attended the Grampian Children’s Book Awards Ceremony in Aberdeen with Mrs Toonen
The Scottish Teenage Book Award group won two top prizes in the graphic novel competitions & two groups of pupils were highly commended in the book trailer competition
Top prizes in the poster competition
BOOK EVENTS
Book Week Scotland
Inter-House Quiz
Alice in Wonderland: Literary
Land
Book Week Scotland: Itsy Bitsy Book
Bits
May The Fourth Be With
You DayWorld Book Day
WHOLE-SCHOOL EVENTS
Harry Potter Book Night
Shakespeare 400 celebrations Roald Dahl Day: spaghetti
eating competitionBook Week Scotland
AUTHOR VISITSClaire McFall with S3
Poet Dr Wayne Price with AH English
Journalist/Author Vanessa Altin with four year groups
Historian Allan Burnett with S1
PAIRED READING
The boost to school pupils’ attainment provided by peer
tutoring was equivalent to about three months
progression in both maths and reading”. (Durham
University 2011
PRIMARY LIAISON
DIGITAL LEARNING
National Poetry Day: S1 wrote poems all about Water
researched Robert Louis
Stevenson for RLS DayCLASS PROJECTS
S1 French research project
Isla, resourcing her S1 Whales & Dolphins Elective
S4 History pupils researched medieval torture & turned the library into a court
S2 researched Robert Louis Stevenson
Cross-curricular project, uniting English, PSE, Art and the
Library, over four weeks, called Getting Grounded! This
project focused on friendships and about talking freely
and openly with friends about worries and anxieties
GETTING GROUNDED!
LITERACY & MENTAL HEATH PROJECT
PUPILS’ DISCUSSION & QUESTIONS FOR JUNO
DAWSON
AUTHORS LIVE BROADCAST
http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/video/aut
hors-live-juno-dawson
TRACY GRANT
HEIDI TWEEDIE
MORAY WELLBEING
HUB
ADAM MURPHY
COMICS & GRAPHIC ARTIST
LIBRARY’S IMPACT ON LEARNING
• Central role of the school library enhanced
• Independent & transferable skills developed
• Pupils’ self-confidence & self-esteem improved
• Pupils feel supported and included throughout their
projects
• Positive attitude towards learning
AN IMPACT ON LEARNING
• Enrichment of the curriculum
• Information literacy instruction & CPD activities with teachers
• Reduction of the attainment gap
• Vulnerable students able to improve academic success
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