Book Clubs in Schools (BCiS) mission is to prepare young people with the skills they need to improve their life opportunities.
BCiS is a charity delivering face-to-face, cross-age peer mentoring book clubs in secondary and primary schools, focusing on the most disadvantaged. The clubs develop a love of reading, social and communication skills and offers a volunteering experience for the older pupils.
In the book clubs, young people:
- read a book for fun
- discuss topics that relate to them
- mix with others from different backgrounds, abilities and age groups
- communicate face-to-face
- learn to respect different opinions
- think creatively
The year 10s are developing resilience and perseverance.
They have coped well with the responsibility of being prepared for book club and setting a good example to the younger students.
The habits of informed criticism and respectful debate are practised during book club, these are cross curricular life skills. I have observed the accelerated progress in the work of the pupils who participated in English.
The format gets children to reflect on a text, to consider the views of other group members and to develop more objective and analytical thinking in a fun and engaging way.
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Book Shopping Spree in Nomad Books
We received a Bookshop-Spree grant from The Siobhan Dowd Trust which gave our Book Club Leaders a fantastic opportunity to choose a book for themselves and one for their school [...]
As part of our mission Book Clubs in Schools strives to organise trips and events for the book clubs like Bookshop-Sprees and author visits to make books come to life and encourage #readingforpleasure.
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