Reading is seen as the key to success now, and in the future, for all John Kyrle High School students so they started the new Year 7s as they mean to continue.

Building on the incredible work of the feeder primary schools they set a Summer Reading Challenge for the new year group at Induction Evening in July. 

Students were issued with a reading log, postcard and a challenge which was to read a range of material over the summer. They were asked to document what they had read in the log which each student could personalise. The reading logs became the focus of their first tutor-group lesson in September as a getting to know you task. Students also took them to their first English lesson and shared their reading choices with their teachers. 

In a year group of 201 students an impressive 141 reading logs were handed in and six winners were chosen and awarded an Amazon gift voucher.

The school would like to give special thanks to parents and carers for their support and comments in the reading logs as they hugely value the relationship between home and school.

The postman was kept busy throughout the summer too, as postcards came flooding into school describing all the amazing books being read by the new students whilst they were out and about.

This impressive response to the Summer Reading Challenge set the tone for a positive, confident and engaging start for the new cohort.