Revision Help

Exams are coming soon for S4-6 pupils - for some useful revision help try these links:

Study Skills from Learning and Teaching Scotland
A collection of interactive materials to help students to become effective learners and manage their own learning. This resource focuses on important exam issues such as essay writing and memory skills.
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/studyskills/15to18/index.asp

Past Paper Questions
The SQA past paper service allows you to download free National Qualifications (NQ) question papers from the 2007 diet.
http://www.sqa.org.uk/pastpapers/findpastpaper.htm

Exam Guide 2008
This Exam Guide was produced by the Sunday Herald in Spring 2008 to help pupils with revision. It contains useful information on exam structures and technique with practice questions and worked examples for Standard Grade, Intermediate 1 and 2, Higher and Advanced Higher subjects.
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/resources/e/nqresource_tcm4477838.asp

Carnegie Medal Shortlist Announced

The books shortlisted for this year's Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals have just been announced:

Carnegie Shortlist (for older children)
Gatty's Tale by Kevin Crossley-Holland
Ruby Red by Linzi Glass
Crusade by Elizabeth Laird
Apache by Tanya Landman
Here Lies Arthur by Philip Reeve
What I Was by Meg Rosoff
Finding Violet Park by Jenny Valentine

Kate Greenaway Shortlist (for younger children)
Silly Billy by Anthony Browne
The Lost Happy Endings by Carol Ann Duffy and Jane Ray
Penguin by Polly Dunbar
Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett
Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears by Emily Gravett
Ottoline and the Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell
Banana by Ed Vere

Winners will be announced on June 26th!

Check out the special display in the Library to see any of the shortlisted books and watch out for details of how you can take part in the HGS Shadowing Scheme, which is coming soon.

Fairy Tales

To celebrate the birthday of Hans Christian Andersen, born 2nd April 1805, why not try re-reading some of his fairy tales like Thumbelina, The Ugly Duckling and The Snow Queen which are all available in the Library.


Or try some modern re-tellings of other famous tales:


Happy Ever After by Adele Geras

The Tower Room: Based on Rapunzel - when Megan glimpses Simon from her tower room, their worlds are changed forever...

Watching the Roses: A modern version of Sleeping Beauty - an ill-wishing has been placed on Alice, and it seems to be coming true...

Pictures of the Night: A retelling of the Snow White fairytale - is Bella's stepmother really as wicked as she believes?


The Princess and the Pauper by Kate Brian

Princess Carina is psyched - she's going to LA without her parents. Even better, she will finally get to meet Ribbit, the hot lead singer of Toadmuffin. The trouble is, how is she going to get to meet him at his gig, when it's the same night as the Ambassador's reception in her honour?Cue, Julia. An ordinary girl at an LA High School. Her chance meeting with Princess Carina is the start of a crazy plot for the two girls to swap places for one extraordinary night.


Spindle's End by Robin McKinley

"Spindle's End" is a retelling of the fairy tale, "The Sleeping Beauty" - the curse placed on Rosie at her christening will hunt her down through the years...