Readers' Cup Final

 The ninth Annual East Ayrshire Readers’ Cup Quiz final was held at Doon Academy on Tuesday 28^th May 2013 with 5 schools competed, Doon, Cumnock, Auchinleck, St Joseph’s and Kilmarnock academies, in front of an audience of supporters, teachers,  Mr Graham Short and Councillor Primrose.  The competition was very close with all the schools neck and neck until the final round. Cumnock Academy’s outstanding full marks in both the Battle of the Books sections was just enough for them to clinch the title, beating Doon by 2 marks.

All the participants were delighted with their goodie bags generously provided by Renaissance Learning, home of Accelerated Reader and Accelerated Maths. The prizes for the winning team were provided by Scotia Books of Kilsyth.

Congratulations to the Doon Academy team of Jade McClymont, Rebecca Steele, Alison McCann and Scott Limond and their coach Miss Borthwick.  

East Ayrshire Schools Readers’ Cup

The Doon Academy heats for the East Ayrshire Schools Readers’ Cup competition was held on Monday 25th March in the Library.

S1 answered questions on humour, comics, witches and wizards and animals. The competition was very close and ended with a tiebreak between Raecar and Bradan however, Raecar were “pipped at the post” as Bradan won. The top two teams scored 31.5 out of 50 which is a very good result. Finlas were very close with 36 points. Well done to the winning team of Lee Uriate, Olivia McCutcheon, Sheryl Whiteside and Emma Blain.

 The S2 competition took place in the afternoon. This time Raecar were clear winners on 31 points. Well done to Liam Elder, Melanie Connell, Jade McClymont, and Ryan McMillan.

Librarian, Mrs Bax, with the winning S1 team.

World Book Day 7th March 2013

We celebrated WBD this year with an exhibition in the library of book sculptures made by S3 under the tuition of Mrs Murdoch, Art and Design student teacher. Visitors to the exhibition were asked to vote on their favourite. The winner was Colin McTaggart’s Tank with Rory Parker’s Lost at sea a close second. All the exhibits were much admired.



To see more pictures of the book Sculptures go to Doon Reads.

S1 and S2 had an opportunity in their library periods to view the exhibition, and also to see some of the book trailer videos that Ms Davidson’s S3 English class had made. Martyn Pig by Keiran Madden and Colin McTaggart and Roxy’s Baby by Katie Roberts were the two voted most likely to make you want to read the book.

 All pupils received their WBD £1 book vouchers and S1 and S2 received their Accelerated Reader certificates.

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Accelerated Reader

S1 and S2 participate in the Accelerated Reader scheme where they read and take quizzes on the books they have read. Our pupils have read 13,891,614 words so far this session.
Two pupils have read over 1 million words each, Alison McCann and Melanie Connell.
Congratulations to them both.

Reader of the Month for February is Gabrielle Graham.  Congratulations to her.

To see how your child is getting on go to AR Home Connect and login.

Storytime

The short listed books for the Cilip Kate Greenaway Medal are now in school and S2 pupils will be reading these books to Dalmellington Primary P1s on Tuesday 29th May. The P1s will then vote for the winning book.

World Book Night

Mrs Murray, Mr Richardson and Mrs Bax have been selected as givers of free books by World Book Night. A special event to give away books to parents is planned soon.

Readers' Cup Quiz

The S1 and S2 heats of the Readers’ Cup were held in the Library. S1 put in an outstanding performance with Raecar winning with an outstanding score of 30.5 out of a possible 40 points.  The winning Raecar team consisted of Jade McClymont, Melanie Connell, Brooke Paulin, and Ryan Macmillan. They answered questions on the author Barry Hutchison, horror stories, humorous stories, and family stories.  

The S2 competition followed immediately afterwards. S2 had similar questions, but with mysteries substituted for family stories. Again the winning team of Katie Burrell, Wendy Roulstone, Gareth Kerr, and Caitlyn Steele were from Raecar.  The competition was much closer in S2 with the winning margin being only 1 1/2 points, separating Raecar from Doon and Finlas only 1/2 a point behind.  

 
Congratulations to the winning teams and to everyone who took part. 
 Thank you to Mrs Bax, librarian, for organising the event. 

To see more pictures  from both events go to - Doon Library 

Word millionaires

In our Accelerated Reader programme. We have two new word millionaires this month from S2, Katie Burrell and Rebekah Copeland, and one S1 pupil Melanie Connell, is nearly there. Katie has read 1,302,374 words this year and Rebekah has read 1,294,051. Congratulations to our Reader of the month for March Scott Boyd in S2.

Author visits

For the Spring Read Programme organised by EA librarians the S2/3 History pupils will be visiting Grange Academy to hear a talk by renowned history author Allan Burnett. Also, the Art Book Club pupils will be visiting Auchinleck Academy to see author and illustrator Teresa Flavin.

Barry Hutchison Visit

As part of the East Ayrshire School Librarians' Spring Read programme Doon Academy pupils were delighted to welcome to the school the author of the ‘Invisible Fiends’ books, Barry Hutchinson. Mr. Hutchinson talked to S1 pupils from Doon and Auchinleck Academy for nearly an hour about his books especially the Invisible Fiends series and answered a few questions at the end. He had everyone in stitches laughing at his stories and pupils were horrified at the horrid bits!

Reading Week

Our latest Reading Week was a great success with pupils and staff reading for enjoyment the first 20 minutes of the day.
Our focus this time was on a Reading Quote competition. Pupils were asked to choose a quotation and design an appropriate illustration.

 The winner was Tommy Campbell in S3 with his picture of "A book is like a garden carried in a pocket" which is a Chinese proverb. Runner-up in the competition was S2 pupil Jordan Kean. Congratulations to them and well done to everyone who took part.

Liz Lochhead talk

S2 pupils joined a special online presentation, organised by the Scottish Book Trust, by the Scottish Makar, Liz Lochhead, who is the National Poet of Scotland for a very special celebration of Robert Burns. 

Ms Lochhead discussed why Burns means so much to her, as well as treating us to some readings of her own poems. Everyone really enjoyed the talk.

Readers'Cup Quiz Results

Librarian, Mrs Bax, held the first round of our annual quiz for S1 and S2 in December.
Almost all of S1 and S2 had a go at the quiz on children's books.

There were lots of prize-winners but the most outstanding scores were achieved by Melanie Connell and Samantha Torbet in S1 and Michael Roberts, Robyn McCluskey, Rebekah Copeland, Katie Burrell, Danni Cullen and Colin McTaggart in S2.
These pupils and some others will be representing their clans in the next round. Well done to all of them.

Readers' Cup Winners

The first round to our annual Readers' Cup quiz  for was held just before Christmas. All the pupils in S1 and S2 had a go at 20 questions on childrens' books.  The outstanding results came from Melanie Connell, Samantha Torbet, Liam Elder, Campbell Baird and Jade McClymont in S1 and from Robyn McCluskey, Rebekah Copeland, Katie Burrell, Danni Cullen, Colin Mctaggart and Michael and Katie Roberts in S2. These pupils and some others will represent their clans in the next round later this term.

Readers' Cup Round One

School Librarian, Mrs Bax, has been hosting the 1^st round of the Readers Cup Quiz. Pupils in S1/S2 were asked 20 fun questions relating to books and their authors and the winners from each class will take part in the 2^nd round.

Good luck everyone and keep reading!

Reading Stars

Well done to Accelerated Reader of the month for November Rebekah Copeland. She was chosen for her outstanding achievement of passing five quizzes in a month and earning 30 points.

Congratulations to S2 pupils Danni Cullen and Katie Roberts who have achieved Accelerated Reader word millionaire status this year. Between them they have read over 2,750,000 words. This is an amazing amount to have read so early in the school year. Also, there are several other pupils who are working towards their first million words.

Reader of the Month

Congratulations to Kayley Hancox who has been selected as Reader of the Month in Accelerated Reading.

Reading Week

Doon Academy held another very successful reading week. Pupils from S1 to S3 together with their teachers read for enjoyment for 20 minutes at the beginning of each day.

Reading Ambassadors

 Mrs Bax has appointed 3 Reading Ambassadors to help in the Library and to assist with promoting reading throughout the school. The Reading Ambassadors are Morgan Davis, Wendy Roulstone and Katie Roberts. Their first job will be to promote Reading Week 7th - 11th November. Reading Week is when the whole school reads quietly for the first twenty minutes of the school day. 

Reader of the month

Congratulations to Stephanie Bell who is Accelerated Reader ‘Reader of the Month’ for September. She was awarded this for outstanding progress in AR.