Limo for young bookworms

9:30am Saturday 19th July 2008

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Ten students from Bushey were whisked away to a Watford bookshop by a limousine after coming top in a reading competition.

Clocking up hours of reading time in the nine-day event, the winning Falconer School pupils have been rewarded with £10 book vouchers and a trip to Borders.

To start the contest, organised by English teacher Ann White for the National Year of Reading, teachers performed a piece of theatre about illiteracy.

One situation saw a lady swept off her feet by a waiter when she discovered her date could not read a restaurant menu, while another showed a daughter’s embarrassment at her father not being able to read to her.

The whole school was involved in the reading challenge but ten winners were chosen to receive the prize.

These were Bobby Hill, Shane Carrington, Brandan Moriarty, Mitchell Eldridge, George Ray, Aaron Cutler, Tony Myring, Connor Eddiford, Jordan Blythe and Thomas Reynolds from Years 7, 8 and 9.

Favoured non fiction books were autobiographies by Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond and footballer Ashley Cole while the most popular works of fiction were by Michael Morpurgo.