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    • Readathon Club Completes 'Great Expectations'

    Readathon Club has just completed its latest classic novel, using some of our old copies of English set texts from the Palmer Library. This term we have been working our way through Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations in weekly instalments and meeting to discuss this in the Library each Tuesday breaktime over tea, squash and biscuits. This has been our largest group so far, including students from every single year group from 7-13 as well as quite a few members of staff who have enjoyed reading (or re-reading) along too!

    This way of reading is similar to that of Dickens’ original readers, who would have read a few chapters each week due to serial publication. Along the way, we fell in love with some characters (Joe Gargery, Herbert Pocket and Wemmick were voted our favourite characters), loved to hate some others (particularly Pip’s odious Uncle Pumblechook), enjoyed some of the novel’s most striking descriptions (particularly Pip’s first sight of Miss Havisham) and gasped at some of the novel’s plot twists.

    This has been a wonderful reading community, and we look forward to re-convening next term to tackle Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. All students are welcome to join us!

    Mr Dilley