Carnegie Book Awards 2013!

Kyle Academy will be shadowing the 2013 CILIP Carnegie Children's Book Awards. Eight great titles have been nominated:
Wonder by R.J.Palacio; Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein; A Boy and a Bear in a Boat by Dave Shelton; Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick; In Darkness by Nick Lake; Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner; A Greyhound of a Girl by Roddy Doyle and The Weight of Water by Sarah Crossan.
Please come and join our shadowing group! More information here:   Shortlist 2013

Boswell Book Festival May 2013!

Places are still available on the S1 and S2 trip to the Boswell Book Festival on May 17th, 2013!
We will be attending the event:
Books are for Life, Not Just for Homework  with author Keith Gray.
More details can be found here: Boswell Book Festival
See Mr Waterston for a consent form.

Happy World Book Night 2013!

To celebrate World Book Night 2013, Mr Waterston has special copies of
Andy McNab's Last Night Another Soldier...
to give free to good homes!

World Book Night is all about sharing stories  and spreading the joy of reading. To find out more go to:

http://www.worldbooknight.org/about-us

A warm welcome to Inspectors of HMIE!

Kyle Academy wishes a warm welcome to all Inspectors from HMIE who are visting the school week beginning 22nd April.

Red Nose Day Fun!

Comic Relief  took Kyle by storm last week when £171.70 was raised  for this amazing cause:

Enterprising S1 girls organised a bake sale and a book sale;
The French Department sold cakes;
Mrs McCulloch sold cakes in the staffroom.

Well done everybody!!!

Aye Write! 2013

Pupils from Kyle Academy visited the 2013 Aye Write! book festival at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow and had a fantastic time. We thoroughly enjoyed events by graphic novel experts Metaphrog and  award winning Scottish  author  Theresa Breslin .

 

 

SYP Voting starts today!

Welcome to the polling station for the 2013 SYP elections!

http://elections.youngscot.org/Election/SelectConstituencyGroup/scottish-youth-parliament-elections-2013

Don't forget to vote!