GHES Readathon 2024
Reading is incredibly important to us at GHES due to its many benefits from boosting wellbeing to helping students to achieve academically. This is why we take time to celebrate World Book Day every March and work with the charity Read for Good to hold an annual Readathon.
Each year, our students are challenged to read for ten minutes every day for just over a week. This year their collective target was to read and log 9,000 minutes in nine days, no mean feat! We launched our Readathon on 7th March with a ‘drop everything and read’ session whereby all students, teachers and link tutors stopped what they were doing for ten minutes to read something they had chosen to read for pleasure. Students chose a variety of texts to read from blogs to audiobooks and regular fiction books with titles ranging from The Very Hungry Caterpillar to Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince, The Investigators, Romeo and Juliet and many many more!
Our students continued to amaze us with their enthusiastic reading throughout the nine days with some of them logging as many as 960 minutes spent reading. Many were motivated by the fact that Read for Good had pledged to donate a box of books and magazines to a food bank nominated by us if they met their target.
By the end of the nine days, we were amazed to see that our students had logged a fantastic total of 10,620 minutes spent reading!! Well done everyone!
GHES loves working with Read for Good, and are thrilled that once again their reading means loads of good books will be donated to one of our local food banks. Find out more about what they do to get kids reading and the support they give to schools: Read for Good