Readathon 

Our Year 6 and Year 7 students have been participating in Readathon.

This is an initiative that was founded in 1984 to encourage children and young people to read more books. The organisation believed then, and still does, that the book deserves passionate support in the face of opposition from electronic wizardry and we agree that the stimulus books give to our imaginations is far too important to lose.

The children read as many books as they could, fiction and non-fiction, from November to the end of term and had to find sponsors.  On Thursday 19^th November all participants came together to discuss, in an informal social forum,  the books they had been reading and were shown a film version of one of the titles, Coraline by Neil Gaiman.

All the money raised by Readathon is shared equally between two charities, the Roald Dahl Foundation and CLIC Sargent. Between them, they spend the money primarily caring for children and young people in the UK suffering from cancer, Hodgkin’s disease, leukaemia, epilepsy, blood disorders or acquired brain injury.

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