Tuesday 21 December 2010

Online Safety

Going online is great fun and can be very helpful to support your work in school. However you must follow some basic rules. Internet Safety is a huge issue in society today so please check out the recommended links section for the bigger picture! Safe surfing!!

Thursday 16 December 2010

GRASS

Grass by Cathy MacPhail - a review by Ashley M.

I really enjoyed reading Grass by Cathy MacPhail. It is all about a boy called Leo who lives on a council estate and witnesses a murder committed by one of the gang leaders called Armour. Armour tells him to keep his mouth shut, scared stiff he does and disastrous consequences follow… Leo becomes Armour's “boy”, becomes aggressive and because of this he loses his best friend and a girl whom he fancied. A gripping and highly recommended read!

Monday 13 December 2010

Library Club!

Library Club!
FOR S1-S3 -A FUN LUNCH TIME AWAY FROM ALL THE NOISE!
THINGS YOU CAN DO:
Go on the computer and create work for the blog
Read a book of your choice
Catch up on homework
Chat with your friends
Do star reader quizzes
Come in and check it out on a Tuesday and Thursday at 1:10 till 1:40!!
By the library club!

THE VAMPIRE... a scary poem by 2 Library Club Members !


I am walking through the city

on a dark and dreary night

who knew that on this day I would get an awful fright


So I’m walking down an alleyway

When I catch a glimpse of white

Of course, it is this small figure

Who is lurking in the night


She smiles a bloodcurdling smile

and stares for awhile

She crouches, sitting, ready to jump

My heart just goes THUMP, THUMP, THUMP


She then swiftly pounces

Hands curled like claws

all you can hear is shuffling

as she opens her smiling jaws


Her fangs are agleam

As I scream a gut wrenching scream

Reality fades away

Along with the light of day


Abandoning her prey

is not what this Vampire would do

all night you should pray

she does not come back for…YOU!

THE ENEMY!


Miss McIlroy is reading The Enemy by the awesome Charlie Higson!

It is all about zombies - the virus doesn’t apply to children below the age of 15, so the children have to do without the adults. It’s a fantastic read, unless you scare too easily!!

Thursday 2 December 2010

Mrs Bain – Business Education has read The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien

This is a coming-of-age tale about a girl growing up in 1960's Ireland who is sent away to a convent. She learns how to behave properly, dreams of spreading her wings and ends up in the bright lights of Dublin.
Yes, it is a good book for a lady to read… Perhaps not for boys!


Emma (3W) has read Gone by Michael Grant

Gone is about a small town in California where in a blink of an eye everyone over the age of 15 disappears and no-one knows why. The town is cut off from the outside world, chaos rules the streets, gangs and sides are chosen. Some of the people have mutant powers and the animals have gone wild.

Yes, I would definitely recommend this book to people as it is a very exciting novel!

Thursday 25 November 2010

Book review!

Heather Higgins – 5R has read All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

This book is very exciting and is all about a soldier’s account of the war in Germany. It was written in 1928 and is perhaps one of the first 'anti-war' novels.

I would definitely recommend this book; it is a good insight to the life of a soldier on the front line.

Tuesday 16 November 2010

Mr Stewart - English
The Enemy – Charlie Higson

ZOMBIES! A world where all the adults are zombies and the kids are trying to survive.

It’s seriously scary, very well written and has great characters.

Thursday 11 November 2010

What the teachers are reading! Miss Byrne's book review

Miss Byrne – Depute Head Teacher
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

What’s the book about?
This is a ghost story about a family whose home appears to be haunted. This story is told from the point of view of the family doctor. The ghost plays cruel and nasty tricks on the family and the story becomes increasingly sinister. There is a very clever twist in the tale in the end.

Why would you recommend your book to others?
This book is really exciting; I could not put it down! I would recommend it to older readers who like mysteries. I would not recommend that you read it alone in an old empty house at night in the dark though!!

Mr O'Neill (Pupil Support) is reading and enjoying The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. He was interviewed by Ryan Mackie.

Monday 8 November 2010

Alan's (3R1) Book Review - Stone Cold!

My book review is on Stone Cold by Robert Swindells.

This book is in two character narratives - Shelter that dislikes homeless people and Link that is homeless. Link dislikes his step father and turns homeless about ten pages in. In the book he meets a new friend who has been homeless for 6-7 months. They meet at a doorstep. Ginger helps Link beg. They go to Captain Hook’s boat and sleep. Someone steals Links watch and Shelter kills the man who took it. Shelter kills people and hides them under the floorboards. Shelter then finds Ginger and kills Ginger and Link doesn’t know what has happened and goes back to Captain Hook’s and can’t sleep unlike the first time he slept there. Shelter kills seven people in total. When he finds Shelter’s home he keeps watching him and finds him clapping his cat Sappho. When Shelter asks Link to go in Link spots his watch and goes to it. Shelter then traps Link in and they fight. Gail goes in and Shelter gets taken into the police car and drives away. I enjoyed this book and would recommend it to everyone.

Thursday 4 November 2010

Stolen book review by Megan (3R2)

Stolen By Lucy Christopher
The book stolen inflicts on a teenager (Gemma 16) who is kidnapped from an airport waiting on her parents by a creepy stalker and is taken away to the roasting desert and is kept hostage.
How will Gemma escape this crazy stalker?
Why her?
What does have in store for her?
This book is definitely worth having a look! Exaggeratingly brilliant full of wild secrets that are finally getting answered once and for all.
By Megan 3R2

Blood Ties book review by Ashley (2W2)

Blood Ties by Sophie McKenzie


My book review is going to be all about a book called Blood Ties. Blood Ties is the first book in a series of two, the second book is called Blood Ransom. Blood Ties is all about two young teenagers who knew from the start they were born different, Theo doesn’t know his dad and his mum has told him that he was dead a soldier killed in battle. Rachel on the other hand lives at home with her mum and her dad, one day Rachel gets a strange text from her dads mobile “the angel's still in heaven”. She is confused so decides to ring the phone it came from, she rings it and hears it answer in her dads office. She’s confused, and then when a strange (but very good looking) boy called Theo turns up at her all girls’ school asking to speak to her, things get even weirder.

Tuesday 2 November 2010

Nuala's book review !

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
J.K.Rowling
This book is the seventh and final in the spectacular Harry Potter series. It starts off at home in the Dursleys- like the others- but this time Harry has to fly from the place he calls home, to the burrow, without being found out by the death eaters and Voldemort- if he can. The book gets straight into the action with its first taste of death before settling down at bill and fluers wedding for a while. All does not go to plan however and harry, Ron and Hermione are tipped into the task Dumbledore set for them- to find and destroy all of Voldemorts horcruxes.
The book twists and turns and many secrets are revealed, including a shockingly sad one about Severus Snape, before the amazing climax. It is an amazing book in itself but you have to read the others in the series to fully understand the sorrows and triumphs.

Monday 1 November 2010

Book reviews on the way!

Keep checking back for our first book reviews which will appear soon on the Kyle Academy Library Blog! Our 2 first blog authors are Nuala Abramson 2 C and Megan Fletcher 3R - congratulations girls!

Tuesday 5 October 2010

Kyle Academy Library Blog Launch!

I am delighted to be able to announce the launch of Kyle Academy Library Blog!
This would not have been possible without the fantastic technical expertise of 4th Year pupil Dylan Harper-Sword and the very enthusiastic support of Miss Byrne, DHT.
We are all looking forward to Library Club pupil contributions and ideas. Watch this space as the Blog develops!

Monday 4 October 2010

Welcome!

Welcome to the new Kyle Academy Library Blog!! Please keep visiting this Blog over the coming weeks as we design and use this online tool!