24 September 2007
City of London Lord Mayor awards student winners of 2007 Big
Wild Read summer challenge
Can a book change the world? Students involved in the 2007
summer reading challenge, Big Wild Read, certainly think so.
The Lord Mayor of the City of London today (24 September)
awarded medals and certificates to students from Sir John Cass,
Prior Weston, Charterhouse School, St Paul’s Cathedral School for
their outstanding performance in the Reading Agency
competition.
Now in its ninth year, the Summer Reading Challenge is the UK’s
largest promotion of children’s reading through incentives and
rewards. In 2007 the Big Wild Read, open to children aged 4-12,
encouraged children to make a positive difference to their
environment. Children were asked to “Take the challenge – change
your world”.
Children taking part were given a bright and colourful folder in
which to record their summer reading. They also received sets of
stickers to decorate their folder and other incentives such as
fridge magnets, moving-image bookmarks and packs of wild flower
seeds to attract wildlife into gardens and neighbourhoods.
For more information about the 2007 Big Wild Read, please visit
http://www.readingagency.org.uk/projects/children/TheBigWildRead.html
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Notes for editors
Photographs of the children receiving their awards from the Lord
Mayor are available for press use. Please direct press queries to
Cubby Fox at City of London on 020 7332 3451 or
cubby.fox@cityoflondon.gov.uk