VOLA English

S3 getting ready for Room 101: Christmas Edition. The competition will be running into next week-make sure to get your entries in for a chance to win prizes!

Thank you to all the parents and students who joined us for the National 5 and Higher Portfolio workshops. We can’t wait to hear your ideas!

Last week, Primary 7 enjoyed a transition visit from @VoL_Academy English Department! Thank you for visiting and supporting our transition to VOLA. @VolaEnglish #workingtogetherallowsallmindstogrow

Well done to everyone who participated in the Halloween Treasure Hunt at lunchtime today. Big thank you to Miss O’Brien for organising! 👻🎃 #literacy #reading

Despite the lure of the amazing weather, we had a brilliant turnout for our three family learning sessions this evening. Thank you to everyone who made it along and we hope you have fun planning your writing pieces for N5/Higher next session!

It’s not too late to sign up for our Higher and National 5 English Portfolio Family Learning sessions. Information and sign up forms have been sent to parents/carers of all new S4/5. We are looking forward to seeing everyone who has signed up next Wednesday!

Good luck to everyone sitting Higher English today!

Well done to our English Departments Readers of the Month for March.📚 Top prize goes to 💥Mylie McGill💥who won a £10 Amazon voucher. 💥Ebony MacKenzie, Nicola Nowinska and Maddison Stewart💥 all won £5 Amazon vouchers, and 💥Olivia Zidek💥 won a stationery pack. 👏🏼WELL DONE👏🏼

WELL DONE TO THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT'S JANUARY READERS OF THE MONTH! Top prize of a £10 Amazon voucher goes to Erin Flyn in 2G2. Emily Bulloch in 1M2 and Leona McDonald in 2G1 both won £5 Amazon vouchers. #readersofthemonth #EnglishDepartment #VOLAPUPILS

Our English department would like to say a massive well done to this months's 'Readers of the month!!' Winner Erin Brown from xlass 1M1 and runners up, Dean Crossan 3G2, Mia Ryal 1G2, and Connor Cramb 3G2. Great work everyone📚👏🏼

Calling all ex-pupils! Are you having a Christmas clear out? Have you stumbled upon overdue school library books? If so, you can drop them off at your nearest library, or hand them into the school. It would be great to get them back and give someone else the chance to read them.

⭐️Ben Miller and Callum Crumley attended Christie Park Primary yesterday to support Scottish Book Week. The boys read to the children and discussed literacy. They were an absolute credit to Vale of Leven Academy.⭐️ #proudteachers #greatpupils

Our National Poetry Day Event was a success! Massive thank you again to our wonderful participants, the music department for wonderful lighting and technical set up and our great helpers keeping guests well stocked up on tea and biscuits!

Vale of Leven Academy marked Remembrance Day today with the sale of poppies, a reading, a minute of silence and a rendition of 'The Last Post'. We continue to be grateful for the enormous sacrifice made by so many from our own community and from across Great Britain.#LestWeForget

Well done to everyone who successfully solved all the clues in the Halloween Hunt. We hope you picked up some spooky book recommendations too!

Excited S1 and 2s, working hard to figure out the clues for the Halloween Horror Hunt @VolaEnglish

*** IMPORTANT *** #schoolproperty #pleasereturnyourbooks #schoolcommunity

@su_w1 @Dumbarton_Acad Thank you! 😊They’re delighted.

Huge congratulations to our students on winning the MacKinnon Cup debate! We’re so proud of their efforts. Well done to all the teams and thank you @Dumbarton_Acad for hosting.

💥S1 Pupils vs Parents 💥 We enjoyed meeting some of our S1 parents tonight 🙌🏻 The final score was 54 to the parents and 51 to the pupils 🏆 Well done to everyone who got involved and especially our parents who won the event🥇