NATIONAL READING CHAMPIONS

On Wednesday 1st March, eight of our Year 8 students took part in the Merseyside and Greater Manchester’s live heat of this year’s National Reading Champions Quiz at The Birkenhead School, Wirral. The quiz is funded by the National Literacy Trust. With the help of the English Department, all Year 8 students completed the school’s individual Reading Quiz heat in their English classes, with the top eight girls then forming two teams to represent the school in the regional quiz. They were Tannishtha Ganguly, Rawdah Ahmad, Aashia Davidson, Isabella Zheng, Sofia Vega-Hidalgo, Francesca Harrison, Emma Parsons and Kate Rosenthal.

Twenty one teams from 14 schools took part. The teams answered 80 questions from eight rounds, each round consisting of ten questions. The rounds included questions on characters, colours, places, animals, and poetry from children’s literature. The girls thoroughly enjoyed the morning’s quiz and, although both teams were vying for second and third places through rounds one to six, they just lost out in the last two rounds. I would like to thank Miss Choudhury for the help and support she gives during the school heats and on the day of the live heat.