Regents Review Summer 2025

The Regents Review Summer 2025

GENERAL NEWS

Manga Artist Some of our Year 8 students were given the chance to work with the amazing, Sally Goodden, a local artist, who joined us to run a manga art workshop in the library. Manga books are hugely popular and students are able to borrow these on a short term loan. Public Library If you haven’t already joined the public library, this is a fantastic resource available to everyone. Just pop in to your local branch and you can sign up for FREE. You will then be able to borrow any of the resources including e-books, audio books and magazines. Follow this link to find out about the services offered at your local library www.southampton.gov. uk/libraries/. ReadEasy Scheme If you, or someone you know is struggling with reading, you can get help from the ReadEasy scheme. You can also help others with their reading journey by volunteering with them. Find out more here: https://readeasy.org.uk/how-can-we-help you/ . Borrowing Books Students can borrow books from the library to read over the summer break and also have access to e-books via their Google Classroom accounts. The e-books can be adapted to large print, dyslexia friendly fonts and the books can even be translated

Library It has been a very busy year in the library with many changes, which have been well received by the students. Over 2,500 books and e-books have been borrowed from the library and our Year 7 and 8 library lessons still continue with a focus on ‘reading for pleasure’. We have celebrated some of the following events with bright, interactive and colourful displays – Earth Day, Star Wars Day, VE Day, Refugee Week, Oceans Day, Green Week, World Environment Day, Empathy Day, as well as Share a Story month and Pride month. Students have also been enjoying break and lunch times in the library, with some lovely craft activities and board games, which have created some fantastic social interactions. We have also had great fun at the Wellbeing Club, which is held in the library on Wednesdays after school. Some of our students have been attending the Dyslexia Support Group in the library on Wednesday. Thank you to Luke, our Student Dyslexia Ambassador, for being such a great support to other students. A group of lovely Year 10 students have been coming to the library during tutor times, once a week to read with some of our Year 7 students, this has been a fantastic opportunity to build on reading skills and to improve confidence in reading aloud. It has been lovely to see some great partnerships developing.

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