Updates from SLC St Andrew's & St Bride's English & on Literacy. Gold Reading School 23 & #CWIG School RfP Award holder 21 from @Soc_of_Authors. #SASBReads
@ScotsHooseYaldi@YaldiBooks@JamieFairbairn1@billykayscot This is just the best news! Ridiculously excited tae see this post! Any paper copies tae be had? We’ll get the link up pronto oan oor Google Classrooms fur a the Eejit Street & fitba fans!
Many congratulations to Margaret, hot on the heels of her @CarnegieMedals win, she has followed it up with one from @ukla! We are delighted for her, amazing to see a former pupil having such success. It’s well deserved! Our new S3s all have their own gifted copy too.
📻 Carnegie 2025 Writing winner Margaret McDonald joined @BBCFrontRow last night to discuss Glasgow Boys, writing in Scots dialect, and read a moving extract from the book.
Listen here at 29:35 👇
https://t.co/nG5aJRvgn6
A great day’s CLPL & a privilege to speak to other participants about our #MyHometown films & our recent comic project, produced in conjunction with @gatherthevoices & @MagicTorchComix Thanks to the @HET Education team & staff at the Scottish Jewish Archives & Heritage Centres.
Educators in Scotland! Join us in Glasgow on Sunday 22 June for a free #LessonsfromAuschwitz CLPL workshop. This day-long workshop will connect you with organisations committed to Holocaust pedagogy - and provide you with free printed materials to use in your classrooms.
Thank you @VisionSchools for all your support. We’re very proud of our comic and film groups and what we’ve achieved together this year. @sasbhighschool
This is a fabulous achievement! the end result is exceptional. The school's involvement in this project & the My Hometown initiative is testament to the incredible work taking place at @SASB_English, well done. 👏 @gatherthevoices@MagicTorchComix@Dylanillo
We’re delighted for our former pupil @carnegiemedal! Our new S3s were all gifted a copy of ‘Glasgow Boys’ last month. Margaret also recorded a podcast for us, interviewed by S6 pupils in conjunction with EK Central Library. https://t.co/bG15uDDwVc
We’re delighted to announce the launch of “Where out Stories Met”, produced with @gatherthevoices, @MagicTorchComix & @Dylanillo. We’re so proud of our 13 S2s who worked incredibly hard to present Dany & Isi’s stories so sensitively. Thanks to Dany for her generous support too.
Mrs Webb’s Rock and Read Book Club enjoyed this year’s annual visit to @WaterstonesEK to choose some new books for our English classroom libraries. There was also ☕️ & 🧁too, as a treat.
COMPETITION TIME!
To celebrate the launch of @philearle's much-anticipated follow-up to When the Sky Falls, we're giving away a class set of THE DAWN OF ADONIS plus posters & bookmarks to one lucky school.
Plus an extra 10 schools will win a book & poster
RT by 26/06 to win!
Alyssa & Scott spoke at the inaugural
@VisionSchools Student/Teacher Conference @UniWestScotland Lanarkshire, on their work this year as part of our wider Vision Schools’ team. Interesting to hear from pupils from other VSS schools too, sharing the learning. @sasbhighschool
We have 30 Study Support webinars running next week.
Find out what's on here:
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Registration is still open for anyone looking for a bit of extra support ahead of the exams.
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Our Easter Study Support may have finished for this year but our evening #StudySupport programme of live, free webinars continues ahead of the #SQAExams starting later this month.
Check which webinars are running this week and sign up here
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Don't forget that our Easter Study Support programme of FREE live, online webinars for #SeniorPhase learners ahead of the #SQAExams2025 begins this coming Monday (7th April)
It's not too late to sign up. Find out more here:
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Muckle thanks tae the team @ScotsHooseYaldi for oor copies o their new Scots anthology, ‘The Wheesht’. A braw collection o stories and poyums haunpicked by them. The cover image catches yer een tae, meanin ye cannae help but pick up a copy. A richt treat for us!
Need a bit of extra support with your N4, N5, Higher or Advanced Higher English?
We have FREE Easter Study Support Webinars running during the week of 7th April.
Find out more and sign up here:
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Thank you to Father Colm who agreed to be interviewed by our NPA Journalism students earlier this week. In a very honest interview, he gave a touching & thought- provoking look at life as a young priest.