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Extra Curricular

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Our students are encouraged to take an active role in their learning, both inside and outside the classroom to increase their independence.
An example can be seen below of our extra-curricular activities run within the Department and in conjunction with the LRC in 2009/10.

September

Young Writers’ Poetry Competition

All students have the opportunity to enter this competition and have their work published.

October

Author visit – Year 9

On Thursday 22nd October approx. 18 Year 9 pupils met author Joseph Delaney at Accrington library. The pupils have been reading Joseph's ‘Wardstone Chronicles’ series in their English lessons and were finally able to quiz him about his writing and inspiration for the series.

November

Booked Up – Year 7

All Year 7 pupils have received a free book through the 'Booked Up' programme. Booked Up is a national programme run by Booktrust and supported by the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

February

 

 

Lancashire Book Award – Year 9

9 X1 pupils have been busy choosing their favourite books from the 85 nominated books for 'Lancashire Children's Book Award'. After reading the books, writing reviews and discussing the books in English lessons there was a final vote to arrive at their 'Top Ten'. Each of the twelve participating schools compile their 'Top Ten' books and from this the shortlist of 10 is chosen.
  Inter-School Spelling Bee Competition –
Year 7

On Friday 5th February The Hollins hosted an Inter-School Spelling Bee Competition. The two other competing schools were Accrington Academy and St.Augustine's High School.

 

March

World Book Day – All Years

 

 

 

 

 

Lancashire Book Award

 

 

 

World Book Day was celebrated in school on Thursday March 4th.
Pupils were involved with:

  • a second-hand book sale
  • the World Book Day £1 vouchers
  • Scholastic C2C book catalogue where pupils could spend their £1 book vouchers
  • borrowing lots of brand- new fiction books
  • listening/watching video author clips about their work


On Friday 5th March our two Year 9 representatives for the Lancashire Children's Book Award 2010 met at County Hall Preston to discover which 10 books had been voted onto the shortlist. The meeting was chaired by author Adele Geras in one of the council committee rooms and all pupils were moved to give their frank assessments of the books on the longlist.
  The Times National Spelling Bee Competition –
Year 7

On Thursday 18th March our Year 7 Spelling Bees team travelled to Bolton to compete in the 1st regional heat of 'The Times - Spelling Bees' competition.

 

June

Author visit – Year 7

 

 

Author visit – Year 8

Miss Coulton's English class 7X1 travelled to Pendle Vale College in Nelson on Thursday 10th June to hear author Joseph Delaney speak about his latest novel 'The Spook's Nightmare'. Joseph's books are extremely popular with our pupils both as a class read and reading for pleasure.

On Wednesday 16th June, two Year 8 English classes went to Accrington Academy to see Australian/American author Scott Westerfeld's presentation about his latest series of 'Leviathan' novels. Many of Scott's novels contain illustrations and he spoke about the history of illustrators and how vital their role in publishing was before the invention of the camera. Pupils were able to buy his books and get them personalised.

     

 

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