NYR February
Newtown has decided to launch the National Year of Reading 2008 on the 11th February 2008 with a reading challenge called ‘Get Reading!’. The reading challenge will run for three weeks and will finish on World Book Day, 6th March 2008 (http://www.worldbookday.com/). This event will hopefully encourage children and adults to read together as the challenge is for everyone.
‘Get Reading!’ will be run using a model very similar to the reading challenge run by the Discovery Centre, where you sign up, get a card and pledge to read a number of books (Yet to be decided). These can be anything from picture books, fiction, and non-fiction to audio books - anything goes. We will have someone each morning and after school so that you can come and tell what you have read, get your card stamped. At the end of the challenge each participant will receive a certificate and a medal.