Pupils raise £2,600 through Readathon
EAGER readers raised more than £2,600 for charity.
Pupils from Gleddings Preparatory School, Savile Park, Halifax, raised the money for national sponsored reading event Readathon.
They tried to read as many books as possible over three weeks.
School literacy co-ordinator, Elizabeth Berry, said that the Readathon had created a real buzz around school and she was delighted at the enthusiasm for reading the children had shown.
On the final day of the Readathon, all the pupils and staff of the school had fun dressing as their favourite book or story characters and the children enjoyed visiting a Book Swap stall run by Year 6 pupils.
The money raised will be divided between CLIC Sargent and The Roald Dahl Foundation to be spent on caring for children and young people suffering from cancer, Hodgkin's disease, leukaemia, epilepsy, blood disorders or acquired brain injury.
The full article contains 150 words and appears in Evening Courier newspaper.
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Last Updated:
26 March 2008 8:52 AM
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Source:
Evening Courier
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Location:
Halifax
