The King’s Junior School explored the world of extreme reading, with more than fifty entries into the competition. Examples of extreme reading included photographs of pupils in exotic locations such as Japan, USA and South Africa.

Cars, motorbikes, boats, planes, camels and horses all featured as modes of transport, all ignored in favour of a good book!

Overall, the winners in each year group were Daniel Roberts (J1R) for his reading on a bungee, Caitlin Thomas (J2D) for her reading in a cupboard, Sam Flory (J3J) for reading at the Chiricahua National Monument, Arizona, USA and Matthew Reece-Jones (J4G) for reading underwater.

The King’s School Junior School pupils continued the fun with a Readathon. Individually children collected from £1 to £70 and raised a total of nearly £1,600.

This will be donated to CLIC Sargent, a charity caring for both children and young people with cancer, The Roald Dahl Foundation and READwell which provides books and storytelling to children who are in hospital.

King’s would like to thank all pupils for their involvement in their fundraising efforts and to those that sponsored them.