Page 90 - The Bellfort - Summer 2015

Literacy News World Book Day books and merits as prizes. Book Fair Pupils celebrated World In March Dunclug College Book in 2015 by participat- hosted their annual book ing in several diferent com- fair where pupils had the petitions. Each class had opportunity to use the £1 Pupils in Years 8—10 con- their own competition with tinued to participate in the World Book Day vouchers if the fnalists in each group they wished. Accelerated Reader pro- going forward to the Year gramme. The top readers group fnal. have read almost 8 million words between them! Promoting reading contin- ues to be integral to the literacy development of pupils in Dunclug College. Regular readers will have a The library continues to be more sophisticated vocabu- a central learning resource lary, be more accurate in in school for lessons and spelling and grammar not study time in addition to to mention having further pupils using it in their free developed their empathy time for reading for pleas- Year 8 produced book and imagination! ure or pursuing extra re- marks that promoted read- search for projects, home- ing. Year 9 designed a Accelerated Reader work or to satisfy their curi- book cover for a story that Top 10 osity! had written themselves 1. Chloe Mawhinney 9L3 and Year 10 redesigned a 2. Luke Neeson 9L1 book cover for their class 3. Bethany Smtyh 9L2 novels. 4. Linzi Bell 8L3 5. Katie Stevenson 9L4 6. Rhian Mitchel 8L3 7. Beth Lockhart 9L1 8. Kyle Frazer 10L2 9. Ellie Cylde 10L2 10. Caithil Magill 8L1 Winners were delighted to receive Easter eggs and 90