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FREE Belfast Symposium

on 'Read, Write, Excite'

Attendance is FREE.

Limited spaces available.

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Holiday Inn, Belfast

22 Ormenu Avenue

Belfast

BT2 8HS

Ireland

 

Wednesday 24th February 2010

Full Agenda to follow.

 

Time    

8.30 - 9.15

Coffee and Registration

9.15 - 9.30

Introduction and Welcome

Christine Brooks,

Implementation Supervisor

Renaissance Learning

9.30 - 10.30

Author Presentation

Tommy Donbavand

HOT to PLOT

Read Tommy's full biography by clicking here.

Tommy Donbavand is the best selling author of the ‘Scream Street Series’ and the ‘Too Ghoul For School Series’. He also writes for a number of magazines, such as the Times Educational Supplement (TES) and Junior Education.

Tommy will show how by helping students create a plan for a story before writing the first word you can remove the fear that can be easily induced by a blank sheet of paper or empty computer screen.

10.30-11.00

SSAT

Kathy Heaps is a former Head Teacher and has spent the last year gathering together examples of effective literacy projects from across English Secondary Schools.  Her independent report has just been published by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and in this presentation she will share some of these best practices.
11.00 - 11.15 Coffee Break & Book Signing
11.15 - 12.15

Author Presentation

Theresa Breslin

Read Theresa's full biography by clicking here.

Theresa Breslin

Theresa Breslin is a Carnegie medal winning Author of over 30 books - some for challenged/EAL readers. Bestsellers include Divided City, Remembrance, Whispers in the Graveyard and the Dream Master series. In her presentation she'll talk about her prize-winning title, Divided City, which explores prejudice, racism and sectarianism - and the power of friendship to combat these. With themes of Citizenship and Conflict Resolution there are a wide variety of book notes and resources available for this book.

12.15 - 1.15

Lunch and Book Signing
1.15 - 2.00

Holy Family Primary School Presentation

Tommy McDermot

"Raising Interest and standards of Reading within our school"

Tommy will be discussing the various issues and challenges the school has faced and how Accelerated Reader has been instrumental in resolving a number of these areas.  

2.00 - 2.30

Inspirational Writing Ideas

Richard Hubbard


This hands-on session will introduce the NEO 2 and show how inspirational writing techniques can be developed using simple technology.

2.30 - 2.45 Coffee Break & Book Signing  
2.45 - 3.30

Presentation

Royal Belfast School

Kathy Lindsay

Bangor Grammar school

Ann Cowdrey

Working together to improve literacy’

Two librarians demonstrate the use made of Accelerated Reader in their schools and how they have developed a working partnership which has culminated in their joint introduction of a children’s book award in Northern Ireland, the first of its kind in the Province.

3.30

Finish


 

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