reading week 2023
Our Reading Week took place Monday 18th December to Friday 22nd December, on the last week of term before breaking up for holidays. Students from Year 7 to Year 10 spent the week exploring challenging texts and showcasing a love of literacy and reading.
Students were encouraged to read aloud, enjoy storytelling and complete their activity booklets supporting their understanding of the text.
lexia groups & eal
There was also a differentiated Reading Week curriculum to support all our readers including EAL students who worked on their LEXIA programme as well as studying ‘The Witches’, ‘Stone Cold’ and ‘The Hobbit’.
They took part in drama workshops and got creative designing book covers for their text.
activities
Year 8 Students also designed cookies based on their reading of The Witches, there were fantastic activities planned across year groups by teachers to enhance the week!
These ranged from character sketches to drama performances, and engaging whole class reading. It was fantastic to see students getting involved in all the different activities.
Maths Challenge
Numeracy was also incorporated this week as the maths department planned a brilliant escape room style Maths Challenge where students had to use their problem-solving skills as well as team work and communication to escape the room!
reading cafe
One of the highlights of the week was the Reading Cafe! Students were able to enjoy a free hot chocolate as well as sampling books from the Scholastic book fair and lots of magazines and news articles. Students loved spending time looking at all the books and having the opportunity to buy them half price at lunch time!
drama workshops
Students also took part in drama workshops to explore the themes in their texts. Year 9 students put together some really powerful and moving drama pieces based around ‘The Kite Runner’ and performed them in the auditorium.
author visit
During the week we also had a visit from children’s author Claire Fayers whose books have won the Waterstones book of the month.
Claire led a Q&A with Y7 students all about writing and storytelling and she answered all their questions about what it is like to be an author, from how she gets her inspiration to what a typical day looks like!
She also read to the students from her new book and has generously donated some copies for the library.
Year 8 students also took part in an author workshop where Claire taught students tips and tricks for story planning and the groups worked together to plan and create fantasy stories as well as asking brilliant questions about life as an author.
They loved reading aloud their creations and working in a team!
rewards assemblies
The students showcased their work in the end of the week rewards assemblies. Each literacy group was tasked to put together something to present. There was a fantastic array of presentations from videos, to posters, to game shows and drama performances. It was brilliant to see students confidently speaking in front of their year group and celebrating each other’s success.
During the assemblies, students were also nominated by their literacy tutors to receive prizes for special recognition during Reading week.
Students that were nominated received a National Book Token as well as a brand new book from our donation by the Bradford Literature festival, for going above and beyond during the week. The students were celebrated for their participation, enthusiasm, reading aloud and literacy skills.
A huge thank you to all staff for all their hard work and dedication during this week!
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