Keen to promote a reading culture among its students, Saint Paul’s Catholic High School in Wythenshawe launched a Drop Everything and Read Day.
When a bell sounded without warning in the middle of a lesson, the whole school – 870 pupils and around 80 teachers, support staff and kitchen team – had to stop what they were doing and read for 30 minutes.
Youngsters had been told about the whole-school initiative in advance but had no idea when the bell would ring. In the event, it rang in the middle of the second lesson of the day, so youngsters stopped what they were doing in PE, art, maths and other classes, picked up the books they had chosen and read for half an hour.
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