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News - October 31st 2009

We are now open!

Loch Leven Community Campus is now open to the public

There are guided tours available on Monday 2nd and Tuesday 3rd of November at 4pm, 5pm and 6pm

We hope to see you there

For more information about Loch Leven Community Campus, please click the link - The School

The site is still under construction and moving forward we will be updating it more frequently. If you have any suggestions please email them to this address.

Posted on Friday, 20-Feb-2009 10:06 AM

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Campus Information Session

4th September 2009

There will be an campus information session for parents on Mon 14 Sept @ 7pm in the school Assembly Hall, all welcome

Edinburgh Book Festival Trip

25th August 2009

44 pupils had a great day out at the annual Edinburgh International Book Festival, where they got to meet authors of popular young adult fiction novels. For several years Kinross High have taken pupils to the literary event and we were lucky again to have great weather. The Book Festival run author talks, workshops and debates for the public and for schools.

The RBS Schools Programme runs from 24 August - 1 September and is packed with events featuring the best writing for children and teens, with a focus firmly on participation, imagination and creation. All events take place in a specially created tented village in the heart of Edinburgh, a young person-friendly environment!

Our pupils got to meet some of their favourite authors, Sophie McKenzie and Joseph Delaney and got the chance to ask questions and have their books signed.

Specialising in award-winning thrillers, author Sophie McKenzie was Richard and Judy's choice for teens in 2007. She told us all about her brand new series, The Medusa Project, in which a group of teenagers with psychic powers become a crime-fighting force. Using her own work, she explored how ideas develop, what the biggest challenge of writing a thriller is and then took questions from the pupils. Her books, such as Girl, Missing, about child kidnap and Blood ties, dealing with human cloning, are very popular in the library and we have added her new titles to our catalogue.

Joseph Delaney has been writing for years – getting up at dawn to write before work when he was an English teacher. He was Head of Media and FilmStudies at Blackpool Sixth FormCollege when he quit teaching to become a full-time writer in 2004, and he has never looked back. He has written The Spook’s Apprentice (soon to be a major film) which has now evolved into TheWardstone Chronicles series of which we are up to number 7. We have all but the most recent book which is yet to be realeased and they are also very popular. He talked about his writing and how he developed the first book into a series, continuing the initial thrilling adventure and again took questions from our pupils. We even got time for a picnic and some live music, a treasure hunt and an ice cream.

Posted on Friday, 20-Feb-2009 10:06 AM