Summer Reading Challenge

This year for the first time we are going to have a summer reading challenge.
To join in you have to just follow these easy steps:

1. Read a book
2. Post a review in the comments on this blog entry
3. Mention the author and title of the book in the review
   

The prize will be awarded to the most entertaining comment/review.
Tips for winning:

• Make Mrs Bax laugh
• Read your book somewhere exciting
• Make your book sound so interesting that someone else reads it and adds a comment
  

Good Luck

Carnegie Medal winners

The Carnegie Medal winner was announced at 12.30 today. The winner was The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. Our Shadowing group had made it our No 1. choice, so we picked a winner! Well done to our group. Our CKG Shadowing pages

Harry and Hopper by Freya Blackwood and Margaret Wild won the Kate Greenaway Medal. It was our 3rd choice.

P1 story time

This is the video of Mr Paton's S2 class reading stories from the Kate Greenaway Medal shortlist to P1 at Dalmellington Primary School. The primary pupils really enjoyed the story time and voted for "There are cats in this book" as their favourite book.
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Readers' Cup Final

The annual East Ayrshire Readers' Cup Quiz final was held this morning at Auchinleck Academy. Our team of Fraser Buchanan, Mark McLean, Laurne sham and Halle Fitzsimmons had been practicing and reading for weeks and their hard work paid off with our best ever result of joint second place tied with St Joseph's. Auchinleck won again! Doon was leading after the first round but fell away a bit in round 2 only to make up ground in round 4. Congratualtions to the team, supporters and their coach Miss Borthwick.

P1 storytime

This afternoon some of our S2 pupils read contenders for the Kate Greenaway Medal to the P1 class at Dalmellington Primary School. The Primary pupils decided after a vote that they liked There are Cats in this book best. After the stories our pupils gave the visitors juice and biscuits. The winning readers were Rachael, Demi and Robbie. The other readers were Joe, Kyle and Robert.