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Contents

World Book Day page 1-2

BBC 500 Words Competition and Young Writer’s Award page 3

Carnegie Medal / CB Ireland Shadowing Scheme page 4

Carnegie Medal Writing Competition page 5

New Books page 7

Coming Soon… page 8

World Book Day Assembly

Yr13 librarians Daire

and Orla prepared an

assembly for

World Book Day.

Copies of the free teen book were

available to exchange for the £1

World Book Day Token

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To celebrate World Book Day we had a

Literary Clue Game for a bit of fun.

Thank you to Kristian and Oisin for

hiding posters all over the school!

Five pupils won a £10 voucher for solving the Literary Clue Game:.

Year 8 decided what the prizes would be.

Well Done!

World Book Day Quiz

L-R: Rosie Stephens, Olivia Dunbar, Patrick Gray, Aidan Hemphill and Sonja McLaughlin.

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BBC 500 Words Competition

Well done to everyone who took part in this year’s 500 words short story competition.

This year we had a record number of entries!

Entrants will find out in early April if they have been long-listed from the first round of

marking and the top 25 in the 10-13 category will be notified in May.

The top 25 from age 10-13 will be invited to attend the 500 words final in London on

Friday 16th June which will be broadcast live on the Chris Evan’s Breakfast Show on Radio 2.

Good Luck everyone!

BBC Young Writer’s Award

The BBC Young Writers' Award 2017 is open for submissions!

The award is open to all young people aged 14 to 18.

All you have to do is create a story of up to 1000 words on any topic.

How to Enter

Visit www.bbc.co.uk/YWA

or ask Mrs Davies in the library.

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Carnegie Medal Shadowing and Children’s Books Ireland Shadowing

Book Club have started reading the

shortlisted titles from this year’s

Carnegie Medal and the

Children’s Books Ireland Awards.

We will vote for our favourite in May and

the winner will be announced at a book

club party in June!

Interested?

Join us in the chapel on a Thursday at 1.05

There is also a screen-writing competition

connected to the Carnegie awards.

Ask in the library.

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New Books

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Coming Soon…

AR Awards

Chess Tournament

Manga Drawing Workshops

New Releases Coming Soon...

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News

You can now access your own personalised library home page to search for books, dvds and more! It’s easy to use and will

recommend books based on what you have read before, ask Mrs Davies if you need some help.

Library Home Page

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How to Access the New Library Home Page

From the School home

Page click on View All

On the next page, click on

Online Learning

Launch Library app