Highcrest Audible
Audible For All - The newly introduced Highcrest Audible initiative.
Here at The Highcrest Academy, we pride ourselves on our versatile and enigmatic strategies in teaching and learning, and the Highcrest Audible is one of the many ways we engage our students with the art and enjoyment of reading.
Together with our Literacy Lead, Mr Howes, we have created a collection of audio readings that transcend across the curriculum and an array of topics to interest all students.
Each week, one form time session is dedicated to 15 minutes of relaxation and literature, with our students being read to from an abundance of different styles and forms. There are always 2 audibles, one fictional extract or poem and the other an article, that connect to the weekly topic.
We hope you enjoy and can appreciate the cultural and academic wealth that your children can gain from each session.
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
https://youtu.be/3QoGwWoV7p0
Race Equality Week, observed 3 - 9 February:
https://youtu.be/qyq6g1o8624
LGBT+ History Month x Orlando: A Biography:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFY_k1oJRhc
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZceL_GE1n-M
The Gift of the Magi:
https://youtu.be/IRZQs6aSx_E?si=BDmjgsHaeaEnInSq
Anti-Bullying Week: Spoken Word
Anti-Bullying Week: Spoken Word 1
Not like other girls
Anansi the Spider God
Anansi and Fire
True Accounts from the Windrush Generation
Irish Supersititions
The Wonder
The Girl of Ink and Stars
The Girl of Ink and Stars - About the Book
The Tulip Touch by Anne Fine - Text overview and Themes
The Tulip Touch by Anne Fine - The Extract - Chapters 4 & 5
An article called ‘Piper at the Gates of Dawn: Pan, Kenneth Grahame and Wind in the Willows’ and other sources.
Chapter 7: The Piper at the gates of dawn - The Wind in the Willows.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - Chapter 1
The True Story Behind the Novel – Article from Time Magazine by Dacre Stoker & J D Barker.
The opening extract from Dracula by Bram Stoker.
The Evolution of the Love Poem
Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu
An extract from The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Audible 2 – An extract from Lucy Worsley's biography on Agatha Christie – A Very Elusive Woman
Morgan is My Name by Sophie Keetch:
Why are Arthurian Legends so Popular? By Jia Xuan:
Dragon Story Competition Winners:
History of World Book Day:
Time Travel Article:
The Time Machine:
The Shadow of the Wind:
The Roaring 20s:
The People that Danced Themselves to Death:
The Great Gatsby:
The Dance Tree:
Sun, Moon and Talia:
Fairytale Article:
Frida Kahlo Article:Breathe by Becky Hemsley:
Mindfulness: