Year of Reading
Two school terms into the Year of Reading and we still have a few things up our sleeve.
World Book Day was particularly well marked on March 4th by several events. Best- selling novelist of the Montmorency crime series, Eleanor Updale gave a talk and ran workshops for Year 8 to support work they are doing on crime writing in their English lessons. Ms Updale told the classes about how she had come to write the series and some interesting aspects of her research process which included a guided tour of the sewers of London.
www.eleanorupdale.co.uk
Many teachers participated in the Whole School Read for the day. This involved starting or finishing their lesson, regardless of their subject, with a five minute piece of the Sherlock Holmes story The Man with the Twisted Lip. The story starts with a graphic description of a Victorian opium den. The response was very positive and students and staff alike enjoyed the break from routine and the chance to acknowledge the important part a good read plays in their lives.
The Upper School Library was taken over briefly at lunchtime for the World Book Day Literary Challenge. Two mixed teams of pupils and teachers tested their reading knowledge, memory and their speed on the button in an exciting and often hilarious University Challenge type quiz. Despite a slow start the winning team of Mr S.Reid, Mrs Costante, James Harrison and Robert Jackson beat by a very small lead Mrs Robinson, Mr Hortor, Samuel Steel and Richard Hill. Many thanks to all four volunteers who provided the entertainment along with Mr Grant the quiz master. Great fun!
Coming up in June will be our Readathon, a charity sponsored read in aid of Clic Sargent and The Roald Dahl Foundation.
www.readathon.org
Following that, in July we have a visit from Fran Sandham, Explorer and author of Traversa who will be talking to the 6th form about his solo walk across Africa.
www.traversa.co.uk
In the meantime, we hope you will be able to find time in between studies to pick up a book and keep reading!
For more Year of Reading updates, head to
http://nhsyearofreading.blogspot.com
Dangerous Books for Boys
Please visit the book club’s blogspot which will lead you to our reviews and also our ‘wall wisher’ with comments about our current and favourite reads.
http://nottinghamhighlibrary.blogspot.com/
