Get involved in our 30-day non-fiction reading challenge!
Every day in November, we want Barr Beacon students to read a non-fiction text. The challenge calendar is below, and the rules are as follows:
- Complete every non-fiction challenge for a guaranteed prize!
- Complete 5+ non-fiction challenges to be entered into a prize draw
- All participants receive praise points and house points
- The form group with the most participants will receive a stack of magazines to enjoy together
- You can complete the challenges solo, with a friend, in form time – it’s up to you! Everyone needs to do the reading and complete the journal to qualify
- Hand your completed journal in to your form tutor or email a digital copy to readingchallenge@barrbeaconschool.co.uk to receive house points and your prize
- Deadline: December 13th 2021
- Day 1 – 26 Climate Activists – National Geographic
- Day 2 – Johnson apologises after minister who uses wheelchair denied entry to Cop26 venue – The Guardian
- Day 5 – How can baking improve wellbeing? – Happiful
- Day 7 – Doctor Who: Could regeneration really be possible? – Science Focus
- Day 8 – Letter from Birmingham Jail
- Day 11 – I traced my surname through enslaved people in Jamaica to a grand house in Scotland 9 – inews
- Day 13 – Extract from Anne Frank’s diary
- Day 16 – Extract from Adam Kay’s book
- Day 17 – Extract from ‘Becoming’
- Day 28 – Freedom or Death speech
