Facts about Reading
- Children who like to read, are three times more likely to have better mental health.
- Children who have higher reading skills are more able to learn new content across all subjects in the curriculum and have higher attainment in Mathematics.
- Children who read outside of school are more likely to secure managerial and professional jobs.
- Reading for pleasure enhances empathy, understanding of self and others and confidence.
DEAR
Drop Everything and Read every Monday. Please ensure that your child has a reading book with her, every day.
Library
Students can borrow books from our library during their allocated time slots. Our students are encouraged to approach the library prefects with book recommendations.
If you have any recommendations for books or would like to donate books to our library, please email us on admin@hkkg.bham.sch.uk
We hope to resume half-term library visits in the new year.
How to support your child’s Literacy
Click here for guidance on how to support your child’s literacy.
Recommended Reading
KS3
A place for zero-Charlesbridge Math Adventure by Virginia Kroll
What’s the Point of Maths? DK
Why Pi?: Big Questions About Math by Johnny Ball
Equal Shmequal (Charlesbridge Math Adventures) by Virginia Kroll
KS4
Alex’s Adventures in Number Land
Alex Bellos Alex Through the Looking Glass
Alex Bellos the Code Book
Simon Singh Fermat’s Last Theorem
Recommended reading
ITCH, by Simon Mayo
ITCH Rocks, by Simon Mayo
Horrible sciences collection of books (Sounds Dreadful, Deadly Diseases, Chemical Chaos, Bulging Brains, Fatal Forces, Nasty Nature, Ugly Bug, Fatal Forces, Vicious Veg and Painful Poison)
Kay’s anatomy, by Jacqueline Wilson
Why is snot green?, by Glenn Murphy
Born to Fly , by Steve Sheinkin
Periodic Tales and What If, by Randal Monroe
Chernobyl Prayer, by Svetlana Alexievich
Beauty Sleep, by Kathryn Evans
A brave new world, by Aldous Huxley
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot.
Everything, by Steve Jones.