At Goresbrook School, everyone is a reader. This is because reading allows you to develop the most important skills and qualities required to be successful both across all subject areas in school and in our later lives. Research has proven that engagement with reading is the biggest indicator of success in later life and is the most important element in developing your cognitive function. It makes us as people literate, articulate, well-informed and empathetic – all essential qualities for success and happiness!
As such, the expectation of a Goresbrook student is to be reading for a minimum of twenty minutes every day; this means your reading book should be changed every two or three weeks by visiting the school library regularly.
The library is open before school at 8.15am and after school until 4.15pm. It is also open every break and lunch time. Please visit the library regularly, explore the wealth of literature available to you, speak to the Librarian, your teachers and the Library Ambassadors for recommendations and continue to take part in our Reading Challenges. By doing this, you are ensuring success in both your GCSE exams and beyond.
In the words of George R. R. Martin – ‘A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.’ Let’s make sure that we explore as much of the world and as many lives as possible by being fantastic Goresbrook readers!
Read for 30 minutes every day
Actively read in all lessons
Are exposed to fiction and non-fiction in all subjects
Read a Class Reader in our Coaching groups
Visit the library during Coaching, break times, lunchtimes and after school
Have an online login to browse and select our next reading book online
Use the SORA App and Overdrive to select and listen to audio books for free
Actively engage in discussions about what we are reading
Have a peer reading scheme to support the weakest readers
Encourage and foster a love of reading in all areas
Have recommended Reading Lists for all year groups along with challenge lists to widen our cultural literacy.