This year’s WORLD BOOK DAY is just two days away.
All S1 pupils are being encouraged to dress up as their favourite book characters. Staff will also be taking part. Watch this space for pictures…
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‘Ross Rocks Reading’ challenge underway at Ross High
The ‘Ross Rocks Reading’ challenge has begun…
Please click Ross Rocks Reading on the menu to visit the project blog and find out more.
100 million words read!
Ellie Bissett, 2W2, and Annie Bowman, 2S2, have taken Ross High over the 100,000,000 million mark for words read through Accelerated Reader! Congratulations to all our pupils on this fantastic achievement!
Thank you to all parents and staff who have promoted and encouraged personal reading this year. Pupils are evidently reading more regularly and we want to keep pushing this and aim high once again next session.
We have also beaten our target for books read, which now stands at 2027.
War of Words update
Our Accelerated Reader battle against Knox Academy continues with Ross High leading the way!
We are at almost 95 million words and 1927 books read – at this rate we will hit our targets before the new timetable in June!
Well done everyone and keep reading and completing AR quizzes!
Celebrating Reading Success
The English department, school librarian Mrs Lumsden and the staff of Ross High have worked hard this session to improve pupil engagement with personal reading . Last session just 40 million words had been read by pupils through Accelerated Reader. Already this session pupils have doubled that figure to over 86 million and we are continuing to win the” reading war” against Knox Academy. Our pupils have now read nearly 2000 books!
At the end of term, the library hosted a Celebration of Reading for almost 60 pupils who have successfully completed awards for ‘Reading for Gold’ and also those who have read over 1 million words in the Accelerated Reading programme.
Already this year 36 pupils have completed their ‘Reading for Gold’ Bronze award; 2 have completed the ‘Reading for Gold’ Silver award; and we now have 18 Reading Millionaires (including some double and triple millionaires) from Accelerated Reader.
Well done to all our pupils on becoming more avid readers. Let’s aim for the 100 million word mark by the summer break – less than 20 million words to go!
February 2014 Update
It has been a very busy term so far for pupils and staff with S4/5/6 pupils completing their prelims prior to the February break. The results of these will be confirmed shortly and we will be reporting to parents in the coming weeks in order to confirm final levels of study.
To further support our senior pupils, we are also starting after school study support sessions for Higher, Intermediate 2 and National 5 pupils from Monday 24 February. Please encourage pupils to attend these sessions as they prepare for their final exams in May/April.
Our S1-3 pupils have also had a particularly successful start to 2014. They have read 1262 books and a whopping 61 million words in Accelerated Reader. We’ve also challenged Knox Academy to beat our totals and are now competing to see which school can reach the 100 million word mark first. It is great to see so many of our young people are becoming more engaged with reading. Last year, Ross High pupils read just 40 million words across the whole school years, so we are delighted at this progress. Please look at our ‘Reading for Gold’ parent guide for further information on our reading scheme.
Mr Foley and Ms Barry also joined the department shortly before Christmas and they have been busy involving themselves in a number of new extra-curricular activities.
Wednesday lunchtimes are all about the Media Club with pupils currently exploring journalism and working towards BBC School Report news day on Thursday 27 March. Keep an eye on our website for their news reports in the coming weeks. Several staff have also been trained in the use of green screen technology, with further training in video editing planned for next term. We are excited about sharing this new technology with pupils and enhancing the learning experience through this.
Miss Bradley’s classroom is also a hive of activity on Tuesday lunchtimes with Debating Club. Pupils are currently preparing for a debate with a number of Edinburgh secondary schools in March. This will shortly be followed by the inaugural East Lothian Schools Debating Competition which Ross High will be hosting on Friday 28 March.
Please continue to keep up to date with news from the English department via our website. You can also follow our Twitter feed @rosshighenglish where we will continue to communicate with parents and pupils.