Literacy and Reading
A round up of everything that has taken place in Literacy this year
From World Book Day to literacy points and the Inter College Reading Trophy, literacy and reading never sleeps! It has been another busy year with our young people engaging with everything they have been offered. We hope you enjoy reading about what's been going on since the last newsletter.
Star Reader Testing
Years 7, 8, 9 and 10 have taken part in the last testing sessions this academic year and from the excellent work that has taken place in Tutor times with reciprocal reading, we are confident that our students' reading ages and comprehension will have improved again this year.
Year 10 have sat their last test which will provide us with all the information we need to be able to support those who perhaps need a little extra help in the lead up to their GCSEs next summer. Tutor time for Year 10 will consist of rigorous revision and access to the best quality careers advice.
As always, the Library Resource Centre will continue to be on hand for Year 11 so that they have quality reading material; they are still encouraged to take part in the 16 B4 16 reading challenge.
Reciprocal Reading
Every year since we introduced the Reciprocal Reading scheme across the academy, we have endeavoured to ensure that students have access to a range of texts to widen their knowledge of fiction and non-fiction texts to deepen their experiences of work written by a range of authors, both from the UK and from around the world. This year has been no different and students have embraced a variety of texts, such as Zlata's Diary, Girl, Missing, and works by a variety of authors such as Charles Dicken and Khalid Hosseini.
The texts will be reviewed again at the end of the year and may be replaced by others, so please ask your children what they are reading in Tutor time, they may want to read the whole book!
Our Inter College Reading Trophy
Inter College Reading trophy
Last year academic year, the Intercollege Reading Trophy was introduced to The Leigh Academy and the inaugural winners were Seacole College. This year the competition has been fierce, with tokens being collected by students from all four colleges, for taking part and completing the 'Pic 'n' Mix' and 16 B4 16 reading challenges, taking out and reading books from the library.
I am pleased to announce that this year's winners are Curie College with a grand total of 512 tokens. The total of literacy points for each college are as follows:
