Miss Taylor 📚

English teacher in Fife. 📖 Book lover and Popsy addict. Forever wishing I could live in Stars Hollow.
@DHSFifeEnglish

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Congratulations to Isla, another winner of our Book Week Scotland competition! @BookWeekScot #BookWeekScotland

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Congratulations to Jo, one of the winners of our Book Week Scotland competition! What an incredible depiction of the theme of hope. @BookWeekScot #BookWeekScotland

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It’s competition time in the English department! The most exciting thing about this competition is that your entry can take ANY form - a poem, a sculpture, an interpretive dance… Get your entries in! #BookWeekScotland

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Some of our wonderful winners collecting their prizes for the scary story writing competition! ✍🏼

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A week of booooook recommendations for spooky season, courtesy of the English department… 🎃👻📚

Miss Barbour loves Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle (but also any Point Horror from the ‘90s…)

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Calling all spooky season fans and budding authors! Our short story competition is open to all year groups. Grab your quills and get to work; there are spooktacular prizes to be won… 🪶

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It was lovely to meet so many of our future S1 pupils this evening! A massive thanks to our Book to the Future team for their bookish enthusiasm all night!

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The August edition of our Bookish Blog - featuring @hollyblack and @RutaSepetys - is now live on the school website. Enjoy! 📚 https://t.co/rhML54TNz2

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We had an amazing day at the Edinburgh Book Festival seeing Sarah Crossan! Our pupils were an absolute credit to our school. Bookish joy all round! 📖 @edbookfest

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Our Book to the Future team are excited to launch the first edition of our Bookish Blog: https://t.co/TjxXOVLrfR Look inside for book recommendations and more…

To kick-start your summer, here’s our 2024 summer reading challenge! 📚☀️

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We're bringing our World Book Day posts to a close with the winners of our bookish stones competition. Thanks to everyone who took part in our WBD festivities this year! #WorldBookDay2024

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We had maps as far as the eye could see in C103 today! It was great to celebrate with the winners of our fantasy map and fantasy writing competitions. #WorldBookDay2024

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Here's just a small sample of the 76 incredible fantasy maps we had entered into our World Book Day competition! #WorldBookDay2024

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World Book Day has come early at DHS! #WorldBookDay2024

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Our pupil helpers have been absolutely wonderful today! #WorldBookDay2024

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Miss Taylor's S2 classes got to step into the Book Nook Café this week. They now have lots of options to help them with their 2024 reading resolutions!

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We’ve got two final books to recommend in our bookish advent calendar! ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens and ‘Little Women’ by Louisa May Alcott are the English Department’s favourite festive classics! 24 brilliant books for December, all available in school @DunfermlineHS

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Merry Christmas from the English department! #lightthelampnottherat

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4A1 have been giein’ it laldie showing off their knowledge of 'Old Tongue' by Jackie Kay this week. They're created some excellent timelines! @JackieKayPoet #National5English #ScottishSetText

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A great staff book club discussion of ‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’ by @shelbyvanpelt tonight. It’s such a lovely novel and we were all enchanted by it. In 2024, we’ll be inviting parents to join us for book club so look out for news and join us in the new year. @DunfermlineHS