4814 SUMMER NEWSLETTER 2025 LIBRARY All Things Library and Literacy! If you read our Spring article in the newsletter, you will know how busy we were in the Spring term. It hasn’t stopped this term either! Continuing with our Thornleigh vision for reading that “the books are not the end; they are the instrumental means for improving the way of life for our students”, we have been looking for as many opportunities as we can to celebrate reading. In April, Miss Whittle, Mrs. Cooper and Mrs. Page took around 30 students to Bolton School to participate in the Bolton Book Awards. This is an annual event which secondary schools can sign up to. The challenge is to read the three shortlisted books and then students get to meet the authors at the event. Whilst there, we got to meet poet Matt Goodfellow, children’s author Piu Dasgupta and postman-turned-writer Ben Davis. Whilst we might be accused of being biased, which we absolutely were on the day, our students really did stand out. They asked so many thoughtful questions to the authors, but what made them really stand out was the scrapbooking creations they shared with the authors. The Bolton School librarians commented on this and Piu Dasgupta even used them for her own social media promoting! Well done to our students for being so dedicated over the months in the build up to this event. During the summer term, we have continued to ensure reading has permeated throughout school life. Our KS3 students continue to accept the reading quests, battling with other forms in their year group to be the best reading form! In addition to this, they also have their form reading book which their form tutor reads to them each week. At KS4, we continue to promote independent reading, directing students to recommended lists on our school website, as well as Dua Lipa’s ‘Service 95’. This is a fantastic website which includes the singer’s own book club, podcasts, author interviews and reading lists. In the final weeks, we will be rewarding those students who rise to the challenge with their reading for pleasure by taking them on another Waterstones trip to spend their £20 gift vouchers. Plus, we have an exciting trip to Manchester to visit the libraries there. With literacy, we like to think of it as an epic or a saga: we only finish chapters and books but there is always another instalment to follow. So, thank you for your support this year and we will be back with a new chapter in September! Bolton Book Awards 2025 Our KS3 book club have had a wonderful day at the Bolton Book Awards 2025. We got to meet all three shortlisted writers: Piu DasGupta, Ben Davis and Matt Goodfellow. We even got a shout out for our creative representations of the books. Well done! #bcfa2025
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