Last week Northumberland Park  students in years 7 and 8 rose to a reading challenge and competed against 11 other schools to see who could read the most books and pass quizzes in a week.

We read an AMAZING  2,541 books and led the field over the week. Top quizzer was Jayden Clifford – Hamilton in 7R who read 48 non – fiction texts during the course of the week quizzing at lunch, break and after school.

 

Prizes won on each day of the competition will be used for lucky dips and to reward outstanding individuals:

Monday: a selection of the Usborne fully Illustrated Classics

Tuesday: 3 of Enid Blyton’s stories

Wednesday: Mortal Instruments series

Thursday: £20 book token

Friday: a complete Alex Rider collection with each book signed by Anthony Horowitz  and for the winning the overall prize a mammoth box of books.

Message from the Accelerated Reader team at the end of the competition :

“The overall winner for the 2016 Read the Most Challenge is: 1st:  Northumberland Park Community School (who read a jaw dropping 2541 books!) Congratulations, you will soon be receiving a treasure trove of books (once we find a big enough box!)