Reading for Pleasure
World Book Day March 2024!
We had a great week of celebrations for World Book Day.
On Tuesday 5th March, Mr Toledo held a seminar on Miguel Cervantes’ seminal work ‘Don Quixote’, as part of the college’s Found in Translation programme. It examined the unique contribution Cervantes made to the development of the novel, and culminated with a reading of chapter 6. It was attended by students from Year 7 to Year 12.
On Thursday 7th March, Mr Bourke ran a Write Your Fantasy Bestseller workshop. It was a great event where students looked at the opening of Harry Potter to identify the key components of what makes a great work of fantasy. They then used these components to help them draft the opening of their own fantasy novel. Students went away to type them up, and the best ones will be published in the summer edition of the St Michael’s Review.
Ms Etemewei also did a series of assemblies on Women in Literature (to combine with International Women’s Day, which was on 8th March). A copy of Ms Etemewei’s PowerPoint is available to view below.
Celebrations culminated with every student being given a voucher for a free book, which were handed out during Form Time Reading on Friday morning.
Women in Literature
To celebrate both World Book Day and International Women's Day 2024, Ms Etemewei did a wonderful series of assemblies on the importance of Women in Literature. You can find both the presentation and other resources used below.
September 2023 - New Books In The Library!
Our library and diversity monitors have chosen some of their favourite reads from our library!
Browse and read extracts of some of the exciting new books in our library by clicking on the book covers in the PowerPoint below.
May 2023 - New Books In The Library!
Southwark Library has now given us eight new books for the library!
They are:
All The Bright Places – Jennifer Niven
Incendiary – Zoraida Córdova (x2)
The Maze Runner – James Dashner
Cogheart – Peter Bunzl
A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness
Defy The Night – Brigid Kemmerer
Murder Most Unladylike – Robin Stevens
The Secret Detective – Ella Risbridger
They are available from Ms Hoang in the library.
April 2023
St Michael's Review 2022-2023!
The students, led by a Year 9 editorial team, launched the third edition of the College's annual magazine - The St. Michael's Review.
If is full of high-quality art, thought-pieces, reviews, poems and stories by our wonderfully talented student body.
We had a great launch in the library, with guest readings from selection of our contributors. You can read an electronic copy of the magazine below!
The St Michaels Review Sept 2022-2023.pdfNovember 2022 - New Books In The Library!
Our Library Monitors have selected 62 brilliant books that you can borrow from Monday 21st November from our library - You can read about each one below and see which you might liek to read.
St Michael's Review 2021-2022!
The students, led by a Year 10 editorial team, launched the second edition of the College's annual magazine - The St Michael's Review.
If is full of high-quality art, thought-pieces, reviews, poems and storied by our wonderfully talented student body. It was launched with a very well attended event in the sixth-form library, where the editors invited contributors to read from their pieces.
Editorial correction - the art work supplied was by 'Cavalli J' in Year 10 - not 'Jack C' as listed in some credits.
The St Michael's Review 2022.pdfDid you know?
