Six Book Success

Students line up to collect their challenge awards.

The Six Book Challenge at Doncaster College continues to thrive and go from strength to strength.

Carol Wootton, from the Learning Resource Centre at Doncaster College, who helped organize the Challenge said, "This is our third year and we have had 100 more students taking part than when we started in 2010 and nearly 50 more than last year so overall 173 students took part in the Challenge this year and 129 completed."

Students are encouraged to ‘get the reading habit’ by completing the Six Book Challenge, which is a nationwide event held by libraries, colleges, adult centres and prisons across the country aimed at encouraging less confident readers to tackle six books between January and June.

The Challenge at the College was organised by the College’s Learning Resource Centre where students had the opportunity to use the wide range of ‘easier to read’ resources and as a result a high rate of success was achieved and this was recognised by a presentation of certificates by Diane Bailey, Assistant Principal for Inclusion and Learner Experience at the College.

"We had our Six Book Challenge presentation event recently," said Carol, "and it was bigger and better than last time.

"Once again the students have done some amazing work. There were lots of photo displays and you could see in the photos, boards full of book reviews, blogs and some reflections of what the students thought of the Six Book Challenge. The majority of those were from ESOL students (English for Speakers of Other Languages), however, there were quite a few reviews from the key skills students.

"The Level 1 Art and Design students have again done some animations based on one of the books they read, they were shown on the TV screen.

"We also had two laptops. One showing some ESOL students being filmed talking about the Six Book Challenge, and the other had one of the games on that had been made by the Level 3 Games Development students. These were a type of snake game, based on a book they had read."