The Kimberley School Newsletter March 2016 | Page 13

LRC News
AR helps to improve reading and we know
it works well for students who read for
20 minutes or so each day. The January
STAR reading test scores show that Year
7 students made an average of 6 months
progress in the first 3 months of the
school year.
Well done to our new Year 7 Word
Millionaires: Max Binch, Joshua Caley,
Jennie Gibb, Millie-Ann Hurrell, Jessica
Whale and Grace Whittamore. And Word
Multi-Millionaires; Daisy Craven, Georgia
Hathersmith and Alexander Johnson.
Our new Word Millionaires in Year 8 are
Jack Brammall and Lauren Thorpe. The
following students are now Multi-Word
Millionaires; Samuel Bowley, Emily
Clarkin, Anya Deegan, Georgia Flinton,
Ella Foster, Bethany Howard, Taya Kilner,
Eve McGrenaghan, Sebastian Meikle,
Elizabeth O’Donnell, Isobel Roberts,
Niamh Shortt, Joshua Skinner, Jessica
Stevenson and Kira Toplis.
World Book Day on 3 March
coincided with our Readioactive
Thursday lunchtime in the LRC,
staffed for the day by Willy
Wonka and Bat Girl (!) Students
were busy reading, quizzing and sharing
in Harry Potter activities with Miss
Jackson. A competition for writing reviews
of favourite books was won by the
following students: Claire Collins (Year 10),
Rhiannon Coupe (Year 9), Oliver Truman
(Year 8) and Hollie Newell (Year 7).
All students have a £1 WBD Book Token
to use in bookshops before 27 March.

30 students
participated in
the Brilliant Book Award
(BBA) this year. This involves reading
as many as possible of six shortlisted
books, writing reviews on the BBA website
and voting for their favourite. As part of
the BBA, on Tues 9 Feb, we were delighted
to host a visit by Rob Stevens, author
of ‘Would the real Stanley Carrot please
stand up?’ In addition to our students, we
welcomed students and librarians from
four other schools. Rob Stevens, who
is a British Airways pilot, emailed school
afterwards saying, ‘I can't tell you what a
pleasure it was to meet such enthusiastic
teachers, librarians and especially children!
I found the whole day thoroughly enjoyable
and left Nottingham feeling inspired by the
experience of meeting so many bright
young people.’
On the following day, 12 of our students
visited Ellis Guilford School to meet
Nottingham author of ‘SMART’, Kim Slater.
There is something very special in hearing
an author read their own work and exploring their ideas together with students. Our
budding authors came away feeling really
inspired and we are pleased that Kim
Slater accepted our invitat [ۈ[