The Big Read 2025: Final Rankings
Our latest reading challenge for the Third Form has come to an end, with individual winners, the Book of the Challenge and the hotly contested Form Prize being announced over the last few days.
The challenge launched at the start of December and over the course of twelve weeks, the pupils have borrowed almost three hundred Big Read books from a list of twenty titles chosen to expand their reading experience.
Over two hundred and sixty reviews were submitted, and between them, three avid readers managed a total of thirty eight reviews approved for display on our library catalogue.
Our World Book Day visiting author and illustrator, Richy K. Chandler, presented the individual winners with their certificates, book tokens and bookmarks.
Winner: Kian S
Runners-up: Dhevan B, Kishan G, Aarav P, Eashar S
Highly commended: Joshua A, Aarav A, Zaki A, Sunny K, Chase L, Shungo T
Mr Hilton-Dennis’s English class 7FPB won the Form Prize, with a total of seventy seven approved reviews, just beating 7ACA into second place with their seventy two reviews.
The Third formers voted Worst. Holiday. Ever. By Charlie Higson as their favourite book of the challenge, a humorous, contemporary story about a 12-year-old boy Stan, which many of the pupils could relate to.
However, it was encouraging to see the classic books Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Sherlock Holmes short stories being hugely enjoyed by our young readers too.
Many thanks to the English teachers who kept their classes reading and reviewing. We anticipate that taking part in this challenge will be just the start of a reading journey for our Third Form pupils not the end.
