Pupils show they have the write stuff during Big Read

The launch of the writing competition among pupils of St Philip Howard Catholic High School was among its activities for the Big Read.

The students were asked to imagine what would happen if a virus unleashed on the world by the heinous Dr Antiread had wiped out their ability to read.

There were no such problems at the near 900-pupil school, which has specialist humanities status, on its special day.

Assistant headteacher Alison Baker said: "We were all involved in the Big Read by reading stories in English, and in French, written especially for the day by such influential people as Nelson Mandela and Paul Coelho.

"Many students wrote to the prime minister to remind government leaders of their millennium promise of all children in primary education by 2015.

"Several lessons dealt with the problem of illiteracy throughout the world, and the students saw videos in which school-age students from third world countries described what education means to them."

Some students also visited St Philip Howard's partner primary schools of St Mary's in Bognor Regis and St Richard's in Chichester to read with their younger children for an experience appreciated by those involved.

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