Day: March 2, 2017

:’Happy readers make good learners’: reading challenge extended

A challenge designed to instil a love of reading in young people is being extended to reach an additional 173,000 children across Scotland. The First Minister’s Reading Challenge will now be open to children in Primary 1 to Primary 7, after the success of the initial scheme which was for primaries 4 – 7. Continue reading :’Happy readers make good learners’: reading challenge extended

Hearts and minds at Millennium Centre

It’s been a busy old week at Muirhouse Millennium Centre – and it’s only Thursday!

For ages we have been crying out for a defibrillator to safeguard the lives of many vulnerable users of Muirhouse Community Centre (writes James McGinty). On Tuesday morning Sonia McGraw (Jamie Skinner Project) donated exactly that! Continue reading Hearts and minds at Millennium Centre

Inaugural Scottish teenage book prize winner revealed

Borders-based author Claire McFall has been named the winner of the very first Scottish Teenage Book Prize. Claire’s third novel, Black Cairn Point, garnered votes from young people (aged 12 – 16) across the country to beat off stiff competition from Keith Gray’s The Last Soldier and Joan Lennon’s Silver Skin. Continue reading Inaugural Scottish teenage book prize winner revealed

Schools spending boost for Edinburgh

The City of Edinburgh Council benefitted from a nationwide increase of 2.7% in education spending last year, thanks to Scottish Government efforts to close the attainment gap and provide local authorities with a fair funding deal. Local MSP Ben Macpherson says that means a good deal for the city’s schoolchildren. Continue reading Schools spending boost for Edinburgh