Following the success of World Book Day now is the perfect opportunity to update you on some of our recent and upcoming literary events.
Fifteen students in years 7-9 are currently involved in the Stan Lee Excelsior Book Award, the only nationwide book award for manga and graphic novels. This involves reading the short-listed novels and rating them. We have joined about 200 other schools and libraries for this event and will be sending off our results in April.
And later this month, we are very excited to be hosting a visit by screenwriter, playwright and novelist William Nicholson . He will be having lunch in the LRC with some students and talking to all year 7s about his books in a special assembly.
Years 7-9 were kept very busy last term entering our ‘Roald Dahl Creative Writing Competition’ and our poetry writing competition.
Well done to the following students who won the Roald Dahl competition. There were a lot of entries so they should be particularly proud of their achievement!
Winners: Jessica Sam, James Boyer, Molly Atkinson, Matty Brennan, Jaime-Leigh Luxford, Jessica Ruddock, George Stubbs, Matthew Forgarasi-Willis, Jack Rogerson, Harriet Collins and Hannah Sargent
Runners-up: Emma McSney, Seren Billson, Regan Harding, Phoebe Jarvis and Kyla Remnant.
These students won the poetry competition:
Winners: Sophie Mitchell & Iona Rickards, Adam Clark, Elijah Freeman, Joesy Fineham, William Tamion-Lacey, Harriet Collins & Katie Knight, James Rendall.
Runners-up: Hannah Sargent & Kiera Rossiter, Josh Jones, Gabrielle Newark, Eleanor Holdcroft, Johan Paciclear, Katy Rutherford,William Fry, Kieran Broad.
