Reading at Winston

Innovation in the Library

Mrs Southern’s 9WE/En turned booksellers in their recent lessons in the LRC with Mr Fisher. Working in groups they were tasked with designing, scripting and creating various performance based marketing tools for books they had chosen to endorse. Some made trailers, others used the Woking Radio Suite to record podcasts, pitches and interviews. Students had to analyse the book as a product, to consider it’s audience, reception, and relevance to contemporary readers such as themselves, and they demonstrated their understanding of this in some truly exceptional pieces.

Here are some examples of their work.

Luke and Charlie

Charlotte, Chealsea and Reka

2015 Learning Partnership

Work has been progressing between the four schools in our partnership, Collingwood College, The Bishop David Brown School and The Magna Carta School.  On 26th January The Partnership will hold a TeachMeet aimed at sharing good practice and developing strategies to support learning in the classroom.  We are working together on staff recruitment and offering opportunities to staff to develop their leadership skills across the four schools.  The focus of our activities is aimed at taking each of the schools to the next level; we all want to deliver an outstanding experience for all of our students.

Winston Loves Reading

 Half-price Scholastic Book Fair

This week (18^th-22^nd January), Scholastic is visiting Winston to offer all students and staff HALF-PRICED BOOKS!

Each KS3 student will be have 30 minutes to tour the Fair in their English groups; all Winston students will be invited to browse and buy books throughout the week, including break and lunchtime sessions.

As Winston continues to celebrate reading and literacy skills, we are thrilled to offer students an opportunity to expand their minds (and personal libraries) in preparation for our school celebration of World Book Day, Thursday 3^rd March.