Thanks to your tremendous support and generosity, our annual Book Fair was a great success – despite the enforced holiday in the middle!

We took £1,953 which raised a magnificent £1,172 in commission to spend on books for prizes and to support English lessons.

Once again, a big “THANK YOU”!

Everyone is involved in making our Fairs a success: our customers (of course!) but also our student Fair Makers.

A BIG BIG “THANK YOU” to Ellen Davison, Iona Lane and Anna Jakubovics who gave up lots of lunchtimes to staple together more than 500 letters and Fair fliers publicising our Fair;

Will Cottiss, Ellen, Iona and Anna who provided lots of support at break times during Fair Week and Ellen and Anna who helped distribute orders and tidy up on the last day.

There was a lot to do and we couldn’t have done it without you!

Celebrating World Book Day

We collected £221.07 to support the work of Book Aid International in getting books to children in parts of the world that have none. Thank you to all those who supported this worthwhile charity which makes it possible for children in desperate need to learn to read, the first step towards helping themselves out of poverty.

The number of students spending the day in character this World Book Day was truly staggering and a real pleasure to witness!  The costumes were tremendous – do take a look at the pictures the news story.

If you don’t have time, here are just a few of the 20 prize-winners:

Thank you to everyone who dressed up, whether or not you made your own costume. Your efforts contributed to making World Book Day special – and that’s what it’s all about!

Enormous thanks to Iona, Anna, Will in Y7 and Ellen in Y8 for patiently naming more than 500 World Book Day tokens so everyone could be sure of getting one in time for our Book Fair.  You really are heroes!