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Year 8 National Reading Champions Quiz
A team of eight children selected from Years 7 and 8 took part in the National Reading Champions Quiz, arranged by the National Literacy Trust. A lot of teams from schools all over the south of England took part in this quiz, which consisted of eight rounds of questions posed by the Quizmaster, Mr Dilly. Our team needed to preselect a round of questions for which we could double our score, known as the Joker round. We choose ‘Heroes and Heroines’ from a list including brainteasers, pets, author pictures, and dystopian & science fiction. We did well in our joker round, with questions on Percy Jackson, and other less wellknown characters from older classical novels. Some of the categories were tougher, such as Watch Me Now where the quizmaster would act out the title of a famous book, leaving us to guess the title. With titles such as The 13 Storey Treehouse and Worst Holiday Ever, these were tricky to deduce. We worked really well as a team, and although we didn’t score in the top three positions, we all enjoyed the experience of taking part and representing PGS.
