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At the Senior School all of our students in Years 6 to 8 visit The Michael Parker Library once each week during an English lesson. The class Teacher and the Librarian work together to support our students with the aim of developing their reading for pleasure.

Year 6

Students in Year 6 keep a Reading Record and we have a number of activities that we use during the year to encourage students to read as widely as possible.

Year 7 and 8

We have a Reading Challenge for our Year 7 and 8 students. (Please note that during the academic year 2011-2012, both year groups are following a similar challenge as this is the first year we have worked in this way with them. During the following year, we will update bopth challenges afer we have evaluated their impact.) During the year, students keep a reading record and undertake a number of planned activities:

Bronze Award
Students are challenged to read 5 books which they have not read before to achieve their Bronze Certificate.

Silver Award
Students are challenged to read a further 5 books which they have not read before to achieve their Silver Certificate.

Gold Award
Students are challenged to read a further 5 books which they have not read before and write a book review of each to achieve their Gold Certificate.

Platinum Award
Students have to continue to read and also undertake a number of different challennging tasks to achieve their Platinum Award. The Platinum Reading List is shown below:

Alongside this, students are encouraged to track their own reading by maintaining a page on our Reading is Fun! wiki. They are shown a number of ways in which they can make attractive pages, using the power of exciting technologies, and are able to put positive comments on each other’s pages to support peers with reading choices. Students are also regularly awarded Credits as they achieve each step in the challenge.