Students And Staff Embrace Fiction For Charity As Everyone Celebrates World Book Day

Cleethorpes Academy students from Years 7 and 8 kick off the readathon on World Book Day in the Academy’s Library accompanied by Principal Janice Hornby.

To celebrate World Book Day, Cleethorpes Academy students are reading as many books as they can over the next week to raise money for a special charity which provides new books for children in hospitals across the UK.

‘Read for Good’ believes reading is nothing short of life-changing. It says children who read for pleasure are more likely to do well in school, have better paying jobs and better health and well-being. For children living in poverty or at risk of adverse childhood experiences, reading can be a literal escape route, offering both immediate relief and alternative pathways in life. A disadvantaged child who reads will outperform an advantaged child who doesn’t, says the charity.

‘Read for Good’s’ mission is to improve the outcomes for all children in the UK by encouraging and enabling children to develop a love of reading.

Cleethorpes Academy students are taking part in the charity’s ‘Readathon’ where  students are motivated to read what they love, and at the same time raise money to help seriously ill children, and they earn free book vouchers for the school at the same time.

The money raised will go to the charity’s hospital programme, which provides brand-new, carefully chosen books and regular professional storyteller sessions to the UK’s 30 major children’s hospitals.

Alison Stephenson, Assistant Principal and Reading Coordinator at the Academy, said the students have embraced the readathon which fits well with the Academy’s ongoing bid to improve literacy by encouraging regular reading.

“The Academy’s library is stocked with the most up-to-date fiction and non-fiction for young people and students are encouraged to use the library as often as possible,” she said.

Academy students and staff dressed up as fictional characters for World Book Day, which encourages reading for everyone.

Where’s Wally? Year 8 student Liam Timings (13) embraces the fictional character for World Book Day.

Twelve-year-old twins Nell and Lilly Ireland with Lily-Rose Roberts, 12,  (centre) become three blind mice for World Book Day.

Cleethorpes Academy staff fully embrace World Book Day by dressing up as their favourite fictional characters.