Youngsters at Ysgol Esgob Morgan, St Asaph are celebrating after being cited as an example of best practice on The Reading Agency’s website for their efforts in this year’s Summer Reading Challenge.
This year’s theme was Creepy House and Ysgol Esgob Morgan was one of two schools in Denbighshire where the whole school took part. The other school was Ysgol Cyffylliog.
This is the second year running for Ysgol Esgob Morgan in St Asaph. The whole school completed the challenge last year and their continuing success is, according Bethan Hughes from Denbighshire Library Service, down to “very strong bond between the school and the local library, and the reading for pleasure culture which has been developed.”
The school also has a reading patron, author Helena Pielichaty. Helen works with the school to raise the profile of reading with children, parents and staff.
Tim Redgrave, headteacher at Ysgol Esgob Morgan and the creator of the Patron of Reading scheme says: “Having a Patron of Reading has made a significant difference to all of our children and their approach to reading for pleasure. It has inspired all of them to visit libraries, explore a range of books and authors and is changing their lives.
“We have a school full of confident readers and it doesn’t take a genius to know how this is improving standards across the board at our school.”
