Posted on November 11th, 2009 by sfreeman
Dear parents and Bright Challengers!
This term we are creating an online newspaper, which be launched before Christmas. Newspaper designs and ideas for names are due Wednesday 11th November and our next meeting is Wednesday 18th November in 201 as usual. During this meeting we will look at the newly created newspaper web design and
decide what we want to include in our first edition. In the meantime get your designs in and start brainstorming, reseraching and drafting ideas for your designated area of the newspaper. These are as follows:
Jennifer, Eliza and Maddie: advice/problems.
Izzy and Anastacia: local news.
Zak, Steven and Jade: APS comics.
Max, Liam and Charlie: Reviews.
APS events: Elisa and Joe.
Sports: David, Sean and Peter.
Teacher’s corner: To be confirmed.
All other roles can be decided at the next meeting.
See you soon.
Miss Freeman.
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Filed under: Year 8 Bright Challenge 2009-10
Posted on September 21st, 2009 by sfreeman
Dear all,
The first meeting this half term is Wednesday 23rd September. We will be preparing entries for the Usbourne Young Writer’s Award. Entries should handed in at the next meeting on Wednesday 15th October. During the second meeting we will be selecting a book to read as a group from the year 8 ‘Haunted Tales’ Reading List.
Looking forward to seeing you,
Miss Freeman
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Posted on June 18th, 2009 by sfreeman
The next Year 7 Bright Challenge meeting will take place on Thursday 25th June during lunchtime in room 119. Mr Austin will be leading it and doing a creative writing workshop with you. I’m sure it will be fantastic!
I look forward to seeing you all then,
Ms Curran.
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Filed under: Year 7 G&T Literacy
Posted on May 9th, 2009 by sfreeman
This week’s meeting was another great success so thank you to all of you who attended.
Many thanks for the posters for Read It Week, they have been very creative and I’ve been impressed by the excellent standard. Please do keep sending them to me at ecurran@alexandrapark.haringey.sch.uk with our slogan ‘Just Read it’. They need to be completed by next Thursday.
Please do continue to read ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ as we’ll be discussing this at more length in our next meeting. Do post your responses to the book onto the Blog in order that we can all share our ideas. Please complete the activity on poetic terms in your booklets and I look forward to you impressing me with your knowledge in our next session which will be on Thursday 4th June during lunchtime.
Well done to our new APS journalists: Charlie and Liam. I will be contacting you next week to discuss this new role.
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Filed under: Year 7 G&T Literacy
Posted on April 30th, 2009 by sfreeman
Last week’s meeting was very successful; the students had lots of ideas for various books we could read and all proved themselves to be enthusiastic readers. We decided upon ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ and we will be looking at this text in our next meeting.
Our next meeting will take place on Thursday 7th May in room 119. Please bring along the poster for ‘Readit’ week which you are designing or email them to me at ecurran@alexandrapark.haringey.sch.uk. I look forward to seeing them and of course you!
Best wishes, Ms Curran.
Read It News
Change of Year 7 Bright Challenge meeting time: the next meeting will now be on Thursday 11th May, which will be during Read It Week.
Many thanks to all of you who have designed posters. The one that has been chosen for this week to advertise Read It week is Jade Bailey’s (see link). Well done and thank you!
Also do remember that it’s the meeting about the Carnegie prize on Tuedsay 19th May in room 220 during lunchtime, so go along to discuss your ideas.
Well done to our specialist school journalists: Charlie Levenson 7R and Liam Harper 7S , who’ve just had their first interview with their first article being published in the forthcoming newsletter.
Oh and do check out the Read It Blog.
Regards,
Ms Curran.
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Filed under: Year 7 G&T Literacy, Year 8 G&T Literacy
Posted on March 3rd, 2009 by sfreeman
The students will have seen these activities in tutor time. Revising these activities will be useful for supporting their Literacy Development.
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Filed under: Support for parents
Posted on March 3rd, 2009 by sfreeman
Hi all,
Have you strated the book yet? What do you think?
MIss Freeman
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Filed under: Year 8 G&T Literacy
Posted on March 3rd, 2009 by sfreeman
Please use this post to log any questions you have about Literacy issues at APS.
Many thanks.
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Posted on February 11th, 2009 by sfreeman
Sorry this has not been available this month. I have had a problem using my password. Please post a comment below about the work you have done this month.
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Filed under: Year 8 G&T Literacy
Posted on June 20th, 2008 by sfreeman
Hello all,
I gather that lots of you were doing the Public Speaking Competition today. Please look at the other post and give your feedback to the group.
The work for this month is based on language and meaning. Please complete:
- Catchy phrases
- Linguistic frameworks
-The Antonym of Literal Interpretation
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Filed under: Year 8 G&T Literacy
