Stop Press! Kyle wins Darren Shan books!

Great news! Kyle Academy has been lucky enough to win a class set of Darren Shan books courtesy of the Scottish BookTrust... More details to follow!  :-)  ***Picture from Darrenshan.com***

Literacy Skills in RME

 Pupils at Kyle Academy use a range of Literacy skills on a daily basis. A great example is the S1 RME project on Islam where pupils develop their reading skills by:

1. Using a range of sources to find information (Internet and Books);
2. Skimming a text to see if it meets their needs;
3. Scanning for keywords to locate the most relevant information;
4. Sorting information and organising their thinking;
5. Communicating what they have learned by creating a unique Bitstrips comic.

   
    
Lucy McCracken, S1WLR, Miss Anderson's class.

Master of Horror - Darren Shan!

S2 pupils in Ms Moore's class enjoyed this morning's Scottish Booktrust  Authorslive event with Darren Shan. This was broadcast live across the Internet on the BBC website and on GLOW at 11am. Darren opened by reading a gory extract  from his terrifying new 12 part series of books, Zom-B. He also shared tips and anecdotes about how he approaches his writing - essential viewing!
The event will soon be available to watch on I-Player.

SBT Learning Resources (www.scottishbooktrust.com)

Darren Shan's Home Page (www.darrenshan.com)

 www.bbc.co.uk/authorslive

Raising the profile of Literacy in school

We continue to raise the profile of literacy in by displaying information about the Kyle Academy Book Club as well as current events related to reading in school. This display is opposite the ICT suite on the ground floor.

Complete Issues

Kyle Academy subscribes to the Complete Issues resource package which provides essential research material, comment and opinion on current events for discursive essays. The lastest edition of Fact File 13 is in the Library and online for all the facts and figures you need to understand the world we live in! See posters for login details.