Vote for Abbie!

Vote for Abbie Hamilton, your Kyle Academy candidate in the March 2013 SYP Elections!

Make sure you have your Young Scot Card and vote online from
4 - 14th March.

www.syp.org.uk/elections

Click to read Abbie's manifesto here! 

Love is in the Ayr! Valentine's Day Competition

Congratulations to all the S1 participants who won a prize in the Valentine's Day poetry competition. Well done!

The top 3 poems will be published on the Young Scot website.

Thanks to  Ann from Young Scot and P.C. Sykes for prizes. :-)

http://www.youngscot.org/local/south-ayrshire

Scottish Children's Book Awards 2012/13

Pupils from Kyle Academy have voted for their favourite books from this year's shortlist. In no particular order we registered the following votes:

Cathy MacPhail - Out of the Depths - 3 votes
Elizabeth Wein - Code Name Verity - 2 votes
Elizabeth Laird - The Prince Who Walked with Lions - 4 votes
James Killgore - Soldier's Game - 1 vote

Winners will be announced on 7th March - World Book Day! Watch this space...

Image courtesy http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/

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.