Win an Action Day Out with Chris Ryan!
Chris Ryan has teamed up with the National Literacy Trust’s Reading Champions initiative to set pupils on a reading mission! The Chris Ryan Operation Read competition is open to all Reading Champions schools to enter.
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Complete any THREE of the reading missions below for your chance to win an ‘Action Day Out,’ with Chris Ryan! Two randomly selected teams will visit Action Days Out , where they will be supplied with combat gear, get to look inside a tank, take part in a military mission and have a go on an assault course. In addition, the two winning schools will receive £1000 worth of Random House Children’s Books for their schools library.
Click here to join Reading Champions if you’re not already a member.
Click here to find out more about Action Days Out and check out a video of the assault course in action
Introduction to OPERATION READ
How to Enter:
- Pupils must work in teams of between 3 and 8 pupils with a teacher taking on the role of the Commander to oversee the tasks.
- The aim for the team is to complete any three of the reading missions below. Any combination of missions can be selected and completed in any order. Missions should be selected with the help of the Commander.
- Once you have completed a mission and had it signed off by the Commander, mark it off on the wallchart map. Draw a line and use the map to track your progress.
- Once you have completed three missions, either fill in the online entry form, or the entry form enclosed in your schools pack to enter the competition.
Once you team has completed the challenges - Click here to enter them
Click here to download the comeptition terms and conditions
Click here to download the wallchart
Closing date of competition is 19th March, 2010
Engineering Mission – The Reading Wall
This mission is about creating your own reading wall. Set up a reading wall with the guidance of your commander. Use this as a space to recommend favourite reads, put up facts from the books you like e.g. The Guinness Book of Records, or use the space to post information about this competition. You could also put what you are reading or any other reading-related information up on the wall.
Surveillance Mission – Get caught reading!
This mission is about catching other people reading and making a display.
Use digital or mobile phone cameras for this mission. The aim is to photograph staff or other pupils reading – catch them in the act! Once you have got the evidence, ask for a quote about why they are reading what they are reading. Collect these pictures and make a wall display of all those people who have been caught reading along with their quotes.
Reconnaissance Mission – Reading survey
This mission is about finding out what others in your school like to read.
Run a survey in school to find out what your school likes reading. Then make this into a display, a short booklet, talk about it in assembly or just use it to inform your Commander what pupils in your school like reading.
Pursuit Mission – Recommending reads
This mission is about recommending reads to others.
Once you have read a book you like, write on a strip of card information about why you liked the book. Put the card around the book and put it back in the library.
Keeping track of which are the best books is a good way of informing others what they might like. To complete this mission, each member of your team must have read a book they liked and put a strip of card around it.
Supplies Mission – Create a swap box
This mission is about setting up a swap box of reading materials.
Set up and run a reading swap box. Put anything in there that you have read that you think other pupils would like. Comics, magazines and books all work well. Tell other classes about the swap box and get other pupils to bring things in too.
Try and get people to bring what they have taken from the box back to school when they have finished reading it, then you can continue to make the most of the ammunition that you have got.
Strategy Mission – Run your own mission!
For this mission you need to create your own reading mission. This needs to be something that will get other pupils in your school reading or promotes reading to others at school. As a team, come up with some ideas, choose one and then speak to your commander to see if the idea is valid. Your commander may also have their own reading mission ideas.
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