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[email protected] December 2018 Grand Union www.featherstonehigh.ealing.sch.uk 2014|2015 Multi Academy Trust New Library Reading Room Students, staff grant in recognition of overcrowding in and visitors have the popular and busy Library. The new room provides a comfortable and quiet celebrated the space for choosing and reading books Grand Opening and will support literacy skills and by author Sara reading for pleasure. Grant of the colourful and spacious Sara Grant spent the day at new Library Reading Room. Featherstone enthusing students about (pictured with author Sara Grant), An adjacent unused and overgrown books and reading, and sharing ideas winners of the READ logo competition courtyard was roofed over to increase for writing their own stories. received their prizes and everyone the size of the Main School Library. enjoyed the celebration cake baked by This was funded by a DfE improvement Stacy Fernandes and Alisha Verma Jaspreet Khaneja. BBC Workshop On Friday 30th November, 17 students from Years 7-13 joined creative forces with Rosie Blunt a BBC Broadcast Journalist to produce a short digital video encouraging young people to take part in Young Reporter, a platform for young people to voice their opinions and to champion young people’s lives in the real world. First they took part in a workshop run ideas and being interviewed by the BBC with our FHS students commenting: by the BBC: “What is news?” which Broadcast Journalist. All the students ‘It is lovely to work with such politically enabled them to explore pertinent agreed that it was both an enjoyable aware and confident young adults - people and events that happen in their and rewarding learning experience they have been brilliant!’.