CONCORDE BOOK AWARD 2010

Year 7 and 8 are invited to take part in our Concorde Book Award review group. Every year our group reads, discusses and blogs about the five books that have been short-listed for the South Glos Concorde Book Award. The winning book will be announced in March at the Concorde Award Ceremony.

The five books short-listed this year are:

• Cosmic by Frank Cotterell Boyce
• Forget Me Not by Anne Cassidy
• Just henry by Michelle Magorian
• Blood Ties by Sophie McKenzie
• The Starlight Conspiracy by Steve Voake

If you want to considered for the review group then come to the OLC desk to ask about it before Wednesday 16 Dec.

BOOKED UP 2010

Year 7's Booked Up books have arrived and will be handed out to tutor groups in the last week of term - an early Christmas present for you! Find out more about the books, about the national scheme, and take part in competitions at the Booked Up website here.

Take part in our Booked Up competition! To win all you have to do is design a new front or back cover for one of the Booked Up books and hand it in to the OLC desk by the second day back in school after the holidays (5 Jan).

There will be a first and second prize for our favourite designs, plus every person in Year 7 that enters will get the chance to win a book in our Booked Up prize draw!

CARNEGIE BOOK SHADOWING 2009

We have a fantastic team of student and staff readers and some great books to read for the Carnegie Book Award this year.

Take a look at the SBL Group Home page on the Carnegie website to keep up-to-date with all our news. Find out who's reading what around school and what we think of the books!

Visit the SBL reading group page on the Carnegie site here...

Or have a look here at the main Carnegie site to find out more

OLC LUNCHTIME QUIZES

Well done to Mr Allen and Miss Pedley, and Ellie and Jenny in 7S - our winning teams in the Euro Quiz we held in the OLC to celebrate Europe Day on 9 May. You all seem to know a huge amount of fantastic trivia about: flags, maps, football teams and Eurovision!

Quizes take place in Year 7 & 8 lunchtimes, join in on your own or as part of a team, win prizes! Keep an eye out for more quizes taking place in the OLC later in the year - adverts will be on posters in the OLC and on the plasma screens around school.

BOX TOPS for BOOKS

A massive thank you to everyone who sent in Box Tops for Books vouchers to us! We ended up with a grand total of 319 vouchers to spend on books for the OLC.

Our Year 7 OLC helpers had great fun choosing some fantastic books to buy for you and can't wait for them to turn up so they can unpack them.

Next year, lets aim for even more vouchers... could we make it to 1000?

WORLD BOOK DAY 2009

We celebrated World Book Day 2009 with events and competitions in the Online Learning Centre. Well done to everyone who took part in the Prize Book Quiz and particularly to our winning quizzers: Josh and Amy in 8P and Emily in 7P. We hope you enjoy the movie tickets for VUE!

Make sure you take part in our other WBD competitions to be in with a chance to win more prizes. Closing date Friday 13 March.

Find out more and pick up competition entry forms in the OLC...

CONCORDE BOOK AWARD

Last year, the SBL book reviewers read some fantastic books that were short-listed for the South Glos Concorde Book Award. Plus, their brilliant reviewing skills won them the Best Bloggers prize at the award ceremony and £60 to spend on books for the OLC.

Our reviewers have been busy reading and blogging again this year! On World Book Day we voted for our favourite book of the short-listed five. Sally Nicholls' book Ways to Live Forever was a clear winner for students at SBL. We'll find out the winning bloggers and the favourite book for the whole of South Glos at

the Concorde Book Award Ceremony at the end of March.

YPIP - YOUNG PERSONS' INFORMATION POINT

The new SBL YPIP was launched at the end of term and is now open in the OLC. It's been designed by a group of Year 9s, who have worked with Connexions to put together a collection of information especially for you.

You'll find leaflets, books and prospectuses to help you with all sorts of stuff you need to help you organise your life: money, study, health, safety, work, relationships. Plus, click on the YPIP button here or on the OLC homepage to take a look at handy links for all sorts of information on the YPIP pages of the OLC Delicious account...

• KS3 Summer Reading Challenge
• Year 7 - free books! A present for you from Booked Up
• Concorde Book Awards shadowing groups start (Year 7 and 8)

• World Book Day - don't forget to spend your token!
• Concorde Book Awards ceremony - March 2009
• Lunchtime quizes in the OLC for Year 7 and 8

• Carnegie Book Awards shadowing groups start (Year 8 and above)
• Lunchtime quizes in the OLC for Year 7 and 8