An excerpt from the Reader's Cup - taken with my mobile phone!
I was thrilled when Thomas' Day School in Battersea (London) invited me to be their guest for their Readers' Cup Challenge, in which each house fielded a team of readers to compete in a quiz featuring three books.
The books were Trash
The teams valiantly read the books over the Christmas holidays. The atmosphere in the school auditorium was electric - children were cheering for their houses, headmaster Ben Thomas himself acted as quiz master and librarian Catherine Kmet kept score. A hundred points to win with every correct answer. And a hundred points to lose with every wrong one! Fingers on the buzzer!
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Headmaster Ben Thomas conducts the challenge |
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My goodness, aren't they tall! Or am I shrinking? |
Schools, take note! What a terrific way to celebrate reading!