Thursday, 2 February 2012

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Sunday, 8 January 2012

Writer Neil Humphreys visiting us Monday, Jan 9th


Neil Humphreys is one of Singapore’s best-selling authors.

His works on Singapore - Notes from an Even Smaller Island (2001), Scribbles from the Same Island (2003), and Final Notes from a Great Island: A Farewell Tour of Singapore (2006), and the omnibus Complete Notes from Singapore (2007) – are among the most popular titles in the past decade. His fifth book, Be My Baby, (2008) chronicled his journey to parenthood and was his first international best-seller. Humphreys then penned two novels – Match Fixer (2010) and Premier Leech (2011) – to critical acclaim in the UK. Both books were best-sellers in Singapore. Humphreys has now sold more than 130,000 books and is currently working on a new Singapore title.   All titles are available for loan in the school library.

He has also penned a screenplay for his Singapore trilogy and done a little script polishing for Asian-American director Wayne Wang. He has also completed a film treatment for Match Fixer and a screenplay based on his original Singapore trilogy. Humphreys has written extensively for The Straits Times, TODAY, The New Paper, Men’s Health and Young Parents in Singapore, The Age and the Geelong Advertiser in Australia and for Ex-Hammers, a retro magazine about his beloved West Ham United in the UK.

He currently lives in Bedok with his family and hopes his daughter will learn conversational Mandarin so she can teach her Dad.

Thursday, 5 January 2012

Writers' Fortnight, Jan 9-20

 Update:  read the report on Writers' Fortnight in the online Dunia [7-Feb-12]

High school students will be participating in Writers' Fortnight during English classes in the first two weeks of Term 2.

On Monday, January 9, travel writer and novelist Neil Humphreys will be speaking to all Grade 7-10 students during periods 3 and 4 in the Auditorium.  All are welcome to come and hear him speak.  Afterwards, he will be selling and signing books in the Plaza during lunch time.

Other visiting authors you might wish to come along and meet:

ESPN Star Sports commentator and sports biographer Steve Dawson will be speaking twice on Wednesday, January 11th -- periods 3 and 4 and periods 5 in the Auditorium.

Military thriller novelist Mukul Deva will be speaking twice on Wednesday, January 18th -- periods 1 and 2 and periods 3 and 4 in the Auditorium

Other writers appearing over the two-week period will include Alison Jean Lester, Jacyntha England, and Simon May.

For more information, contact Kate Levy, Head of English and ESOL (kal@uwcsea.edu.sg).


Writers' Fortnight



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Thursday, 15 December 2011

Middle School Reading Recommendations for the Holidays

Click on the image on the image above to check out the booklists of recommended reads:
  • 10 Action & Adventure Stories 
  • 10 Books to Make You Laugh 
  • 10 Classics to be read online FREE 
  • 10 Dystopias 10 Fantasy Series 
  • 10 Great Non-Fiction Reads 
  • 10 Historical Fiction 
  • 10 Internationally-Minded Reads 
  • 10 Mysteries 
  • 10 Reads about Life / Love / Gritty Realism 
  • 10 Science Fiction Classics 
  • 10 Short Story Collections 
  • 10 Twentieth-Century Classics

Tuesday, 15 November 2011

Recent photos of the library


Photos thanks to Cheryl Yap of Raffles Institution, visiting teacher-librarian.

Sunday, 2 October 2011

Borrowing has begun

While the primary library has been lending for weeks, the secondary library has only started lending books to students for pleasure reading during the past week.  Thanks to a troop of parent volunteers, we are getting the books out of boxes and onto shelves.

Until the collection expands, we are asking that you limit your borrowing to two books at a time.  Eventually we will be a library with no definite limit on borrowing.  As long you are continually reading and returning books, there should be no specified maximum number of items.   After all, you might want a non-fiction book, a fiction book, a cookbook, a joke book, some poetry, a visual text, etc.  -- at the same time.

There is a self-checkout station on the upper level of the library where  Miss Ernie Marlina, the secondary library assistant, will help you check out your books.

Students, parents, and staff are all welcome to borrow books.