Carr Hill High School has delivered its first festival dedicated to celebrating the importance of reading and writing. Working alongside two other local schools, St Bedes Catholic High School and Lytham High School, as part of the Lancashire based initiative, ‘We are Reading’, Carr Hill students took part in the ‘We are Reading’ Festival.
The festival, and initiative as a whole, was designed to encourage reading and creative writing amongst students. The day included visits from three famous authors who delivered a mix of writing masterclasses, interactive workshops and biographical talks. Students were joined by Alan Gibbons, who is an award-winning children’s author, Non Pratt, who has been shortlisted for awards such as YA Book Prize and the Branford Boase Award, and M.A. Griffin, who has won the Times Children's Fiction Competition.
Year 8 Edward said: “The workshop I took part in was really interesting and fun. I can also use the creative writing techniques I learnt during the workshop to improve my writing.”
Year 7 Robyn said: “The experience was so educational. I enjoyed the part of my workshop where I had to take a villain and use their characteristics to describe them in a positive way. It was challenging but fun.”
Assistant Headteacher Mr Morton said: “We launched the ‘We are Reading’ initiative at the start of this academic year and it has created a platform for us to encourage reading and creative writing amongst our students. We’ve run short story competitions and a book bingo challenge and now we have hosted our first ‘We are Reading’ Festival which has been a huge success. Encouraging reading and writing amongst our students is so important. It’s not only about enhancing their prospects now whilst they are sitting exams, it’s also about their future as reading and writing will play a huge part in their further education, in employment and beyond that.”
We are Reading 2019
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