Chailey News, Summer 2012.pub - Chailey School...

Chailey School News, Summer, 201244JUST before theEaster holidays, I wasin an English lessontalking to RhiannonGoss (Year 9, Firle)and we came up withthe idea of starting abook club, writes KatieRichards (Yr 9,Glynde).We asked a few friendsif they thought it was agood idea and, if so,would they be interestedin it and to our delightthey said yes; so we wentand asked Mr Smith if hewould be interested inhelping us with it.Mr Smith said we coulduse his room to hold ourmeetings and asked uswhat day we wanted to doit on. We thought aboutit for a bit and decidedthat Monday was the bestday for all of us andBookworms’novel ideathat we would meet everyMonday lunchtime.We tried various differentideas on how to runit but the one that workedthe best is the system thatwe are currently usingwhich is: We have a differentgenre for eachtwo month period (eg.May and June is murdermystery books) and wecan read as many differentbooks from that genreas we want to and wediscuss them and recommendthem to the others.Then, at the end ofthe two months, we talkabout our favourite bookwe read from the genre.On the last week beforea holiday we discuss awell-known series (eg.The Twilight Saga) thatwe may have read andshare anything else thatwe thought was good andthat we can recommend tothe rest of the group.It is great fun and givesus a chance to unwindfrom the work we havebeen doing in class whilerelaxing and discussingone of the things we lovemost...READING!!