Summer Reading Bingo Challenge Winners
A definite positive ‘side-effect’ of lockdown was the valuable extra time we found for personal reading. As you will know from July’s newsletter, Mrs Turton, our...
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A definite positive ‘side-effect’ of lockdown was the valuable extra time we found for personal reading. As you will know from July’s newsletter, Mrs Turton, our...
Posted by Danielle Bowe
Our LRC has a slightly new look and feel this year with new COVID measures in place. As in classrooms, students sanitise their hands and clean their workspaces before use. When...
Posted by Teresa Turton
Ensuring our high profile focus on the importance of inculcating excellence habits of reading in all our students continued this week with our first DEAR (Drop Everything and...
Posted by Jeremy Turner
Summer Holidays are here and we are delighted to be launching a Summer Reading Bingo Challenge for all students and staff! Make the most of your free time during the summer and:...
Posted by Danielle Bowe
‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’ (1886) by Thomas Hardy Arguably Hardy’s greatest work, The Mayor of Casterbridge is the tragic story of Michael Henchard, a man who rises to civic...
Posted by Lynn Court
The final three books in the Carnegie Shortlist demonstrate the range of content that is considered the best of the newest children’s literature. While Black Flamingo offers an...
Posted by Teresa Turton
It has been a delight for me, during these strange times, to receive students’ Reading Award work and see what they’ve been reading – I have certainly added a few books to...
Posted by Teresa Turton
This week: ‘The Secret History’ (1992) by Donna Tartt The story follows a group of smart, attractive Classics students at an elite university, and an outsider who finds himself...
Posted by Lynn Court
This week: A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003) by Bill Bryson A nonfiction offering: In his quest to provide what the title suggests, Bryson is funny, clear and...
Posted by Lynn Court
This week’s featured book, Girl, Boy, Sea, is the perfect example of why we should never judge a book by its cover; our group felt the design suggests a book aimed at younger...
Posted by Teresa Turton
A definite positive ‘side-effect’ of lockdown was the valuable extra time we found for personal reading. As you will know from July’s newsletter, Mrs Turton, our LRC Manager, set us a brilliant challenge and many students and staff rose to it. We had some fantastic entries for the Summer Reading Bingo Challenge.
This week we held the raffle ticket draw for students and we are delighted to announce our winners were Lana Wurr, 8S and Sophie Cohen 8A: each receiving £25 Amazon Vouchers. Everyone who entered was allocated raffle tickets according to how many squares/rows they had completed on the card – Lana and Sophie increased their chances of a prize by reading enough books to maximise their raffle tickets- it clearly paid off!
Congratulations also to Miss Denton and Miss Collins who were winners of the staff competition.
Well done to everyone who took part – look out for our next competition later in the year.
Reading Through Time… Reading is a form of entertainment with a long history. People often turn to reading as a source of comfort e.g. when in hospital, a distraction from...