In September we gave our year sevens #Wonder by R. J. Palacio as a welcome gift & reading challenge. Reading through the entries this week has been so heartwarming! Students have clearly enjoyed the story & taken away the perfect message! Can't wait to give out rewards!
Very proud of our teams who took part in yesterday's regional heat of the #KidsLitQuiz. They wowed me with their knowledge & represented Hans Price so well! It was a fantastic event. Thank you to the Kids' Lit Quiz team, the attending authors & Monkton Prep School for hosting.
At Hans Price we encourage students to read a range of genres and quality texts, to push themselves out of their reading comfort zones and experience different writing styles. There are already reading awards available through Accelerated Reader, with college points on offer for the number of words read and quizzes taken and badges in college colours for students who have read over one million words in a year. We are now launching an additional "Wider Reader Award" for students who read a complete set of ten books. You have a card to track your progress and are welcome to take your time and read other books alongside the set list. You can browse the reading sets below and pick the one that interests you most - Remember that they might not all be the books you would normally choose - That's the point! Find out more in the LRC.
These books explore mental health & show others living through the spectrum of mental health. Visit the LRC to share your thoughts, add to the display, talk, read or just be.
Hans Price Academy celebrated World Book Day on Thursday 1st March. Members of staff dressed up as a range of literary characters to celebrate and promote reading throughout the academy.
Students and staff discussed their costumes and the books they were linked to and students completed Character Hunt sheets with some correctly identifying over 40 different characters and voting for their favourite costumes. Learning families also took part in a quiz highlighting the range of book available to borrow from the LRC. The day was cut short due to the snow, but there will be plenty of other book based events to look out for before summer. Last year the Siobhan Dowd Trust awarded Hans Price LRC a grant to take students to browse in a local bookshops and to choose and buy new books for our LRC. This week a new delivery of surprise Advent books arrived from the Trust! Each day until the end of term, students will be opening a new book for everyone to enjoy in the LRC. Here’s what we found in the first few packages. Make sure you pop into the LRC to find out what else lies hidden in our advent books packages and whether they are worth adding to your own winter wish list! |
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