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Does your child enjoy comics and graphic novels?

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RBdigital Comics

If you enjoy reading comics and graphic novels you can access hundreds of titles to download and read, free from your public library service in Wales. The RBdigital Comics service has titles for all age ranges, in a wide range of genres, including Marvel’s Spider Man, Avengers, and X-Men, and other top comics such as Transformers, G.I. Joe, Star Trek, and Ghostbusters

Choose whether to check-out a single issue or the whole volume and download as many titles as you like to your device using the RBdigital app, or view on your computer. Get started with our handy guide

To start using this service you will need:

  • an Internet connection;
  • a computer, tablet or smartphone running the RBdigital app;
  • an RBdigital Gateway account. You can create a new account or log in with the credentials you’ve created for another RBdigital product, such as Zinio for Libraries. The login for the e-magazines in Wales is the same as for the e-comics;
  • to be a member of a public library service in Wales.

To find out more, go to the RBdigital website for Wales

https://libraries.wales/my-digital-library-rbdigital-comics/

Cornel Cymraeg

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Cornel Cymraeg

Our Welsh map in the school library is looking bare.  We need you to make us some posters to share your amazing Welsh learning with all your Trallwn friends.

In the newsletter, we will give you different challenges.  If you complete the challenge, bring your poster into Miss Bond and she will put it on the map for all to see.  You will also get a Welsh sticker…Miss Bond might even share your posters in Welsh Assembly!

Challenge 1:  Can you draw, paint or take a photo of your favourite place in Wales?  It could be here in Swansea, or far away.  Write the name of the place on the picture and a reason why you like it.
(Your family can help you).

You can write in English or Welsh.

Here are some words to help:  Dw i’n hoffi… (I like) achos (because) mae’n (it’s)…

bert (pretty)/dawel (quiet)/cyffroes (exciting).

BBC’s 500 Words writing competition

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The UK’s largest story writing competition for kids is back for its tenth year. Here’s everything you need to know to get involved.

How to enter

All stories must be submitted via the online form on our website.

Parents, guardians and teachers can register for a SUBMITTER ACCOUNT, or by following the links at the top of this page. Once an account has been created, it can be used to upload a single story or a whole school’s worth of tales with our new top tool! For more information on how to enter a story into this year’s competition, please visit our Submit Your Story page.

Teachers and Librarians can also apply to be one of our volunteer judges by registering a JUDGE ACCOUNT. For more information on how to become a judge for this year’s competition, please visit our Become A Judge page.

Please read the competition rules before submitting entries, along with the competition Privacy Notice.

What are the prizes?

As well attending a spectacular 500 Words Final at Buckingham Palace where superstar celebrities will read the winning stories live on the radio, six amazing illustrators: Tony Ross, Fiona Lumbers, David McKee, Sue Cheung, David Roberts, and Margaret Sturton – will each be set the task of illustrating one the winning stories.

The winners in each age category will also receive:

Gold Winners – Chris Evans’ height in books and 500 books for their school.

Silver Winners – HRH The Duchess of Cornwall’s height in books.

Bronze Winners – Their own height in books.

There is also a BRAND NEW Prize for 2020 and it doesn’t matter how good your story is just that you enter one. One entrant will be selected at random to receive a fabulous book bundle and an invite to the final (for child plus a parent or guardian). They will also win 500 books for their school – so the more pupils a school has that has entered the more chances they have of winning a brand new library.

Read more about the prizes here.

Dates for your diary

All entries must be received by Thursday 27th February at 8pm.

This year’s 500 Words Final will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 from Buckingham Palace, on The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show, on Friday 12th June.

Get started

500 Words is an open invitation to the wide world of imagination, so it’s time to get those creative cogs turning!

To help you get started, our website is packed full of helpful hints and terrific tips to bust through the writer’s block.

Download a learning pack from the LEARN section, where you can also find advice from our celebrity judges Frank Cottrell Boyce and Charlie Higson in the 500 Words Live Lesson.

Pop over to the 500 Words Blog to discover top tips to create terrific tales written by previous winners, amazing authors and a few of the 500 Words elves.