Well, it’s taken a while but we are finally able to announce the results of the 100 Million Minutes Reading Challenge, which our S1 – S3 pupils took part in from 1st to 29th March this year.
679 schools and educational establishments from across the UK entered and Bearsden Academy came a very creditable 192nd out of these 679. If we also consider that a large number of Home Schools were entered for the competition and seemed to figure quite prominently on the leaderboard, then this performance looks even better. All of this contributed to the organisers reaching a final figure of 100, 019, 560 minutes of reading during the challenge.
Most pleasing of all for us at Bearsden, though, was the fact that our pupils read loads during March and we wanted to acknowledge our own stars. Mrs Thomson, Principal Teacher of English, awarded (or will do soon to those we have not yet seen) book tokens for:
– in third place, Thomas Morgan (S2) who read 5,220 minutes;
– in second place, Helen Loud (S2) who read 8,583 minutes;
– and in first place, Madeleine Bell (S3) who read an astonishing 13,140 minutes.
Congratulations to all our participants, especially our winners.
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