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This week we are celebrating 25 years of World Book Day and in the dyslexia lunch club we wanted to focus on the fact that World Book Day is not just for avid readers but is an...
The Pickwick Papers is Dickens’ first novel. It was originally serialised in monthly instalments and quickly became a popular success with sales reaching 40,000 by the final...
Every Friday our school falls silent for 20 minutes and in every CDC Time students are read to by their Character Development Coaches as they carefully follow the texts with...
As part of our annual World Book Day celebrations we are holding a Book Bake-Off competition, open to all students in the school. The challenge is to bake a cake or series of...
Following year 10 parents’ evening, we had several requests for book recommendations. Regular reading is so important for success at GCSE and beyond, yet it’s exactly...
It made for a very positive start to the day last Friday morning to join one of our exemplary Character Development Coaches Miss Collins and her CDC Group 8 Elm for...
Congratulations to Annabel Pointer who is our Reader of the Week. Annabel has achieved her bronze reading award. To reach this level of reading she has read four books and...
This week we recognise Charlotte Boother Dominguez as our Reader of the Week. Currently reading ‘Cinder’ by Marissa Meyer means that she is exploring not only the...
Jesse – Lee Bushnell year 7 is our Reader of the Week. At the moment she is reading Jacqueline Wilson’s Funny Girls. Previously to that she read Anne Frank’s...
Congratulations to Ellen McDermott in year 7 who is our reader of the week. She has read an amazing 21 books since we started back to school in September. In addition, Ellen wrote...
This week we are celebrating 25 years of World Book Day and in the dyslexia lunch club we wanted to focus on the fact that World Book Day is not just for avid readers but is an opportunity for all students to discuss/recommend books that they have read and loved.In recognition of this, we also decided to introduce students to authors with dyslexia. For instance, did you know the following authors have dyslexia?
Mrs McDermott and I decided to showcase our great selection of dyslexia friendly books in the learning support department, this gave students a chance to explore different genres, find books they enjoy and discuss books with their peers.
A year 7 student recommended the dyslexia friendly book “What magic is this?” by Holly Bourne.
“I would recommend this book because normally teenage books are very big and I can’t read those types of books. This book is still for teenagers but is small and it has a really good storyline. I especially enjoyed the part where they thought all their magic they did was real!”
Below is a picture of all our students with their chosen books, ready to read them at home. Happy World Book Day everyone!
