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Independent Activities and Challenges
Faculties across Our Lady’s have provided a non-exhaustive list of activities and challenges to engage and support your child in their learning. Please encourage your child to take part in the activities:
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- Pay a visit to your local library and register for a library card. Alternatively, visits to The John Rylands Library (https://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/) or Manchester Central (https://www.manchester.gov.uk/centrallibrary) have historical archives including many rare books and collections.
- Complete the weekly Crossword
Reading Lists
KS3 Reading List:
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
The Diary of Anne Frank
I am Malala – Malala Yousafzai
Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats – T S Eliot
The Magic of Reality – Richard Dawkins
Any Arthur Conan Doyle
Any Agatha Christie
The Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Treasure Island – RL Stevenson
KS4 Reading List:
The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
Any books by the Bronte sisters
Any Jane Austin
1984 – George Orwell
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Road – Cormac McCarthy
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Lilac and Flag – John Berger
KS5 Reading List – moving forward!
A quality Sunday newspaper (The Times, The Observer, the Telegraph)
Shakespeare – Bill Bryson
Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder
Bad Science – Ben Goldacre
Six Easy Pieces – Richard Feynmann
The Undercover Economist – Tim Harford
Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
Ways of Seeing – John Berger
How to Read Literature – Terry Eagleton