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Literacy week events.

The wellread journey at Mounthawk

• We created a  working group, to plan regular events for the promotion of Wellread, with teachers, vice-
  

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  principal and student council members together with support from the parents council.   The English Department with the help of Ms. Janette Condon organised both the student and staff bookclubs. The staff bookclub meets monthly while the students have a weekly club every Wednesday.

• In December we recorded videos from staff reviewing their favourite books  for the school website, we chose All the Light we Cannot See for the One Book, One Community challenge and parents and retired staff donated books to the school library.
• After Christmas we undertook for teachers to display a poster on their favourite childhooh book on their classroom doors.

The Teachers meet to discuss books.

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  Members of the bookclub with winning stories they wrote for a bookclub Halloween competition

  For International Literacy Week in March we organised numerous activities including World Book Day celebration workshops on writing with author Dave Rudden. The Drop Everything and Read event was hugely popular  for all students. Mr. Redican recorded podcasts from English teachers reading extracts from their favourite novels for the website.

• For April we gathered reviews of the One Book One Community challenge for a display, while TY students visited local primary schools to read stories and we held a short story competition for sixth years.
• The book club is run by TY students.  It is run in the library every Wednesday and readers have the option of reading and discussing the same book, or reading their own choice of book.  Some of the senior readers chose the One Book, One Community novel,  All the Light We Cannot See. Junior students have been avid readers of the Irish writer Dave Rudden from Cavan since he visited the school as a special guest for Literacy week.
• I liked this book(All the Light We Cannot See) overall, it was a bit of a slow starter but I’m glad I stuck with it because it has an amazing story and gives you a new viewpoint on the war. It made me think a lot more about ordinary Germans in WW2.Alex, student .

As a school we gained a great insight into the reading habits, likes and dislikes of our students. The enthusiasm and creativity of all those involved was plain to see. The love of literature exhibited by teachers and students was evident in the beautiful displays which dotted the school from March to May and all those involved look forward to receiving our award in September at the Wellread National Awards Ceremony.

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body” – Joseph Addison

Teachers Dressed as Favourite Characters– Click

 

 

Author Dave Rudden and Pupils – Click

Students and Teachers Dressed as Favourite Characters– Click