Developing good literacy skills is an essential component of academic success. Building your 'reading mileage' is important – international research shows a direct correlation between the amount of time spentreading and academic achievement.
In other words, if you want to achieve at school, spend more time reading. The good news is that reading is a skill that we can all improve, simply by spending more time doing it. Our daily SSR time (Sustained Silent Reading) at the beginning of period five is a good start, but time spent reading over and above this will make a big difference for all young men.
To encourage reading, we run the Year 9 Reading Challenge, which is open to all Year 9 students. As you finish a book, check in with the librarians or Mrs Rankin or Dr O’Connor in the English department. They will ask you a few questions about the book and will then ‘mark off’ the book on thereading log. Both fiction and non-fiction books count in the reading challenge.
Once you have read and logged 15 books, you will have met the Bronze Certificate part of the Challenge.
30 books will earn you the Silver Certificate and 60 books the Gold Certificate.
Certificates will be presented during Assembly towards the end of the year. Those young men who earn a bronze, silver or gold award will also get a Morning Tea Shout from the Rector.
