18 March 2024
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Students' Active Role in our 'Reading School' Plans

A group of our Year 10 and Year 12 students participated in Reading Buddy training at Crewe UTC in March.

7 March 2024
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A World Book Day Murder Mystery Challenge for Year 7

Our Year 7 students used their best detective skills to solve our World Book Day Murder Mystery Challenge in their LRC lesson.

7 March 2024
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World Book Day at CHS

Our students enjoyed a wonderful World Book Day this year, with a range of activities designed to encourage them to read for pleasure.

4 March 2024
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Year 7 Students Challenged to a Readathon for our First House Competition.

To coincide with World Book Day UK our first House competition was a Readathon for Year 7 students.

29 February 2024
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Encouraging a Love of Reading

Valentine's Day gave us the perfect opportunity to celebrate our love of books in the LRC.

21 December 2023
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Zachary's Guess Wins the Prize!

Year 7 Zachary J made the winning guess in our Christmas LRC Competition to guess the total number of pages in the book snowman.

14 July 2023
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The Gift of Reading

A group of students visited Waterstones and helped to choose books for our LRC thanks to a generous £200 donation.

20 June 2023
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Award Winning Author Visit

On Monday June 26th, award Winning Football Author, Matt Oldfield, will visit CHS to inspire our Year 7 and 8 students.

29 March 2023
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Holly's Winter Poem to be Published

Year 8 student, Holly W, has had her fifth piece of writing accepted for publication.

6 March 2023
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LRC World Book Day Winners

Well done to all the students who took part in our LRC World Book Day competitions and congratulations to our winners.

1 March 2023
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World Book Day Fun at CHS

We have loads of fun activities running at CHS for World Book Day 2023.

15 February 2023
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World Book Day Voucher Changes

This World Book Day voucher has changed this year from paper to digital tokens for secondary schools. The link to the digital token has been emailed to all students.

13 February 2023
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Bookbuzz Encourages Students to Read for Pleasure

We have signed up to Booktrust Bookbuzz this year to encourage students to read for pleasure and help them develop a real love for reading.

16 December 2022
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Holly's Winning Guess

Congratulations to Year 8 Holly W who won our LRC Christmas Competition.

8 December 2022
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Christmas has Landed in the LRC

Christmas has landed at the LRC with a Christmas tree, Olaf the Snowman and even a great Christmas competition

10 November 2022
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Autumn Term Book Blitzers Rewarded

The winners of our LRC Book Blitzers Competition for the last half-term were 7HM and 7DCH.

21 October 2022
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Halloween Fun in the LRC

It was spooktacular in the LRC before the half-term break, with students enjoying a range of Halloween activities .

3 March 2022
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World Book Day at CHS

World Book Day celebrated its 25th birthday this year and we marked this milestone with a whole host of activities at CHS, including serialised Roald Dahl, a Form Group Quiz, disguised teachers and a murder mystery!

28 February 2022
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New in the LRC

Take a look at some of the great new books that have arrived in the LRC, including a range of titles to support our students with additional needs.

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