The end-of-year reward celebrations commenced this week at JTHS, with many events happening around the school. On Thursday, our school librarians, Mr Weighall and Mrs Stubbs, took the Year 7 assembly to present the 2025 Accelerated Reader Awards. The event highlighted the achievements in reading and literacy made by our pupils over the course of this academic year.
All Year 7 pupils have participated in the Accelerated Reader programme, reading books and completing a variety of reading challenges. Pupils have been encouraged to read as much as they can, before attempting a range of comprehension quizzes on the Accelerated Reader online platform. For every quiz successfully completed, pupils earned book points for their form groups and merits for themselves. Each week our leaderboard display has updated pupils on the Top 20 readers, the reigning form group champions, and the weekly awards for ‘Quiz Master’ and ‘Top Scorer’. In total, our Year 7 pupils have successfully read over 3,000 books – over 96,000,000 words! – from a wide range of authors and genres.
Thursday’s event saw Mr Weighall, Mrs Stubbs, and our Deputy Headteacher Mr Heath, present a wealth of awards (with certificates and library goodie bags!) to those pupils who have made outstanding progress in reading. The awards included:
- Richest Word Millionaire (over 5,000,000 words read):
- Oscar W.
- Book Point Champion:
- Adam G.
- Quiz Master:
- Ferdinand D.
- Reading Accelerators (for making over 3 years’ progress in reading skills):
- Fatimah A.
- Thomas B.
- Gabriela C.
- Joshua H.
- Oliver J.
- Legends of Reading (for determination effort and progress):
- James B
- Keeghan B.
- Robert C.
- Thomas C.
- Jem E.
- William G.
- Mya I.
- Amelia K.
- Vincent L.
- Mishal Z.
Congratulations to all these reading champions and the huge number of Year 7 pupils that have made accelerated progress this year.
