Churston's Carnegie Shadowing Group

English students have been hard at work preparing for their presentation for this year's trip to take part in the South Devon Carnegie Shadowing Group presentations. There were eight books short-listed this year and students from all year groups have been busy reading and reviewing them so that we can choose our favourite book before the National Winner of the Carnegie prize is announced!

Ten schools took part in the meeting from all over South Devon and the quality of the presentations was excellent. The meeting started with a talk from a well known teenager author called Keren David who talked to the students about her work and answered lots of their questions. Each school had been assigned a novel from the short-list and they then prepared and performed their own interpretation of that novel. Our students were assigned to focus on the novel 'Code Name Verity' by Elizabeth Wein which is set during World War Two. We decided to put together a book trailer and have spent the last three weeks meeting most lunchtimes to film and edit our work in time for the meeting. The students acted out different scenes for the trailer and helped with the editing process. For the presentation our students took to the stage and each said a few words about the novel before we showed the audience our trailer. The students were fantastic in their performance and a real credit to the school. Everyone enjoyed the trip and we are looking forward to next year’s Carnegie Shadowing books!