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Ness Book Fest is back for another year following the success of last year. Between Thursday 5th October and Sunday 8th October there are a number of book themed events for children, young people and adults. There are an array of events over the four days which promote a love for positive story reading and writing behaviours. Check out the programme below to see the events which are taking place between 05/10/17 and 08/10/2017, including a number of published authors.
No Pens Day Wednesday encourages schools and settings to put down their pens and to run a day of speaking and listening activities.
Why don’t you try putting away the pens and pencils for a day, and looking at ways to develop your pupils’ oral language?
This month’s ’50 Word Fiction’ from the Scottish Book Trust asks you to ‘Write a story that features a bridge.’
The deadline is Saturday 30th September 2017. The Young Writers category is open to all children and young people under 18.
The First Minister’s Reading Challenge is back for 2017/2018 and now includes children from P1 – P7. Is your school registered to take part in this year’s challenge?
Whether your P4-P7s took part last year, or you are completely new to the Reading Challenge, you will need to register your school for this year. Each school will need to nominate a key contact who will input details for the whole school, order Reading Passports (along with our new Class Passport for P1-3) and submit entries for the school-wide challenges. They will receive a link to send on to class teachers so they can sign up, access the resources and submit entries for the pupil challenges.
Tthe P2 and P3 Read, Write, Count Family Packs includes books and resources to support family learning. The packs will be delivered to schools between September and November with the intention for the packs to be shared with families through family learning events during Book Week Scotland 2017: Monday 27th November – Sunday 3rd December 2017.
Please see the information below for teachers which includes links to classroom resources which support learning and teaching using the Read, Write, Count Family Learning Packs.
To support schools in developing Bookbug/ Read, Write, Count gifting events using the packs, the Highland Library service are putting on a series of Career Long Professional Learning (CLPL) events for P1 – P3 teachers across the Authority. Please find information below – each event can be applied for through the CPD Calendar (put ‘Bookbug’ into the Keyword search). Please apply before Friday 6th October 2017.
