Author Archives: Ms E Bolton

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!)

Term had barely started when the English Department made their  first extra- curricular visit of the academic year to The Queen Elizabeth Hall  on London’s Southbank. Ten year 8 students and one year 11 student,  supported by Ms Bolton, Ms Campbell, Mr Guyver and Mr Warner, braved rush hour  traffic on Wednesday 18th September to reach the Southbank for a  spectacular celebration honouring Nelson Mandela. 

As part of the Southbank Centre’s Literature and Spoken Word  Season “REVOLUTIONS” twenty -seven leading writers, musicians and poets read  twenty-seven extracts from  Mr Mandela’s autobiography “Long Walk To  Freedom” .

The evening was insightful yet entertaining and our students  were easily the youngest members of the audience. The performances ranged from  moving extracts where we learned what Mr Mandela went through on Robben Island  to his eventual release after twenty-seven years. Performers such as Sharon D  Clarke sang, Beverley Naidoo read extracts and Gillian Slovo remembered her  childhood in apartheid South Africa.  In addition poets such as LInton  Kwesi Johnson and author Ben Okri performed their own work.  The two hours  flew by and we all agreed it was wonderful  to see and hear such a  diverse range of performers.