World Book Day
On the 5th March 2015.....and for the first time in memory, Holsworthy Community College celebrated World Book Day! All staff were encouraged to dress up as their favourite literary characters and to discuss their chosen text with their classes.
Teachers were also encouraged to read a chapter from their favourite book every lesson and have a conversation with their pupils about why it was so important to them. To round off the celebration the weekly quiz was replaced with a special 'book quiz' and free tokens were issued from the school library.
A massive thank you to the staff that took part and I hope the pupils enjoyed the day!
Mr Wolverson
Carnegie
The CILIP Carnegie Medal is awarded by children’s librarians for an outstanding book for children and young people. In collaboration with the Library and English Department, students follow the Carnegie Shadowing project. Last year our members were from Year 9 but the group is open to all enthusiastic readers. We read books shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal, post reviews on the Carnegie Shadowing website and in June take part in a presentation alongside other North Devon schools.
Youth Speaks
Princes Trust Institute
Competitions
Young Writers presents
a Creative Writing Competition....
'Welcome to Wonderland'.....your World, your Words
Win! A Kindle Fire HD, the opportunity to be published and £1000 for your school.
Closing date: 21st December 2016
See Mrs Rollason (in S20) for more information
Feedback from OCR Moderators 2016
'There was evidence of effective moderation. Teacher comments and annotations were helpful and supportive throughout, pointing to the assessment critiera.'
'...there was evidence of consistent, details analysis with exploration and evaluation of language.'
'...evidence of sophisticated control of material with a real effcort to use punctuation to shape meaning - a centre strength.'
'The centre is to be commended for its efficient approach to A651 which was greatly appreciated by the moderator - thank you.'
'...those at the lower end demostrated a strong engagement with the texts.'
'Some good use of texts and well developed responses were evident across the ability range.'
