Summer 2013 draft 14 pub - Newbattle Community High School
Summer 2013 draft 14 pub - Newbattle Community High School
Summer 2013 draft 14 pub - Newbattle Community High School
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Last term at the library book club we<br />
were looking at all things Zombie<br />
related. These pesky ghouls seem to<br />
be everywhere at the moment. They<br />
are on the television, in the cinema, in<br />
comics and<br />
are all over<br />
children’s<br />
and teenage<br />
fiction.<br />
The book<br />
we have<br />
been reading<br />
is the<br />
first in a<br />
spooky new<br />
Letts Print!<br />
In Graphic Communication our class<br />
has been learning about promotional<br />
graphics and different types of industrial<br />
printing techniques.<br />
Miss Blair organised a class trip to<br />
Charles Letts & Co at Thornybank<br />
Industrial Estate for us to experience<br />
the design and production process of<br />
a diary.<br />
There are different departments of<br />
the Letts workshop. The first department<br />
we came to was where graphic<br />
designers design the diaries on Mac<br />
computers using desktop <strong>pub</strong>lishing<br />
software. Our tour guide informed<br />
us that you get all different types of<br />
diaries and that we could design our<br />
own and personalise them as we wish.<br />
We also got a tour of the factory<br />
where the diaries are printed and<br />
finalised ready to be sold in WH<br />
Smith, Boots etc.<br />
Library Book Club<br />
series by superstar author Darren<br />
Shan called Zom-B. This creepy series<br />
follows teenager B dealing with<br />
issues of racism and domestic abuse<br />
as well as the arrival of a very unwelcome<br />
hoard of the undead.<br />
The series has proven to be very<br />
popular with pupils. Some of the<br />
group work around this book included<br />
debates on what two items<br />
you would take with you to survive<br />
(no one opted for the unlimited tins<br />
of Spam option!) as well as deciding<br />
which department of the school<br />
would be best for waiting for rescue.<br />
Diaries are printed on large sheets of<br />
paper, where the dates are spread<br />
around the sheet and it makes no<br />
sense initially! But then the diary<br />
gets put together in the correct order<br />
by a machine. As we went round the<br />
workshop we got to an area where<br />
the paper gets cut to the right size.<br />
They use a massive guillotine that can<br />
cut through 1000s of pieces of paper<br />
at a time. The blade was extremely<br />
sharp!<br />
We learned about different processes<br />
of printing (such as lithography and<br />
gravure) while we were at Letts. The<br />
tour guide said that one of the machines<br />
they were using to finalise the<br />
diaries produces around 1600 an hour<br />
– that’s 26 or 27 diaries a minute!!<br />
We all enjoyed the trip to Letts and<br />
even got a complimentary<br />
diary each!<br />
Craig Reid 3FP.<br />
The book club runs on Wednesday<br />
lunchtimes. To take part pupils need<br />
to sign up with Mr McRobbie in advance.<br />
New members are always welcome.<br />
Zom-B is available in the school library<br />
for issue along with the following<br />
ghoulish titles:<br />
The Enemy by Charlie Higson<br />
Undead by Kirsty McKay<br />
Undead Ed by David Grimstone<br />
Robin Hood Vs the Plague Undead<br />
by James Black<br />
Mr McRobbie<br />
Librarian<br />
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