The Raven

Here are the videos, as promised:

The Raven

and

The Simpsons

Remember, your spooky poems are due next Friday, 7th November!

Happy Halloween--stay safe, everyone!

Advanced Higher Creative Writing

Almost everyone's 'Home' pieces are in, so we're now on to our next focus: competition!

We have decided to start with the Neil Gunn Writing Competition and the Tower Poetry Prize.

School deadline for first drafts: Friday 12th December

We Are Writers

DUE 29TH OCTOBER!

Instructions for those who either missed them or forgot...

You have been asked to produce a short piece of writing on the broad topic  of ‘home’. You will have been given some class time for this, with the understanding that it should be completed over the October holidays. Written pieces do not have to be lengthy, and can take on almost any form (story, poem, recipe, letter etc.). As a guide, a single page of the printed book can hold up to 225 words.

This topic is to be interpreted very widely, and creativity is encouraged. ‘Home’ does not have to mean an individual’s home, or even a personal piece. The piece could be about the Earth as our home, Scotland (and beyond!), an ideal future home, a recipe that is special, a letter to someone or something (perhaps even taking on a persona, such as a soldier away from home, or someone travelling), or it could deal with one of the many popular sayings about home.

We are excited about this—coinciding with Scottish Book Week at the end of November is the publication of Dingwall Academy’s first compilation of pupil writing.  The deadline for submissions is 29^th October.

We Are Writers—Uploading your work

Because so many are writing (and some great work has been posted up so far!), we will have two volumes, a UK first. These two volumes are ordered alphabetically.

Pupils simply need to follow the instructions attached in order to upload their carefully constructed and proofread work to the publisher’s website. Very basic instructions and passwords are below. Uploading can be done either by typing directly into the text box, or by cutting and pasting from Microsoft Word or similar. Pupils are well aware of the very real audience they are writing for!

  

Surnames starting with A-L

1.       Go to: writers.scholastic.co.uk

2.       Click ‘Children’s Login’

3.       The book password is: (email Mr Green if you don't know!)

Surnames starting with M-Z

1.       Go to: writers.scholastic.co.uk

2.       Click ‘Children’s Login’

3.       The book password is: (email Mr Green if you don't know!)

If you are not currently in an English class, but are interested and would like to contribute, please do! Every pupil in the Academy is welcome to submit their work.

The deadline for submissions is 29^th October.

We are looking forward to reading everyone’s submissions, which will ultimately be available in print from early December—order forms will go out next month.