1. St Matthias Year 6 Reading Gladiators
Final Project ‘leaving a legacy behind’

2. Our Idea… How are we going to do this? Create an outdoor reading
area in the playground!
How are we going to do this?
Sponsored Read at school
Write to local businesses
Create an online page
Sell ice-lollies in the playground

3. We introduced the idea to the school through an assembly.
The following slides are what we used to present the idea to the whole school.
We wrote letters to parents to inform them about our project…

5. Reading Gladiators’ Assembly

6. The Year 6 Reading Gladiators’ are a team of skilled readers that enjoy reading for pleasure and have met as a group to read some challenging books this year!

7. Final Project
Leave behind a legacy.

8. The Reading Gladiators last year raised more than £2000 to buy books for all the class at St Matthias.

9. Have you ever wanted to just read a book during the break times
Have you ever wanted to just read a book during the break times? Do you find that there isn’t a place to sit and enjoy a book outside?

10. Would you like to have this in our playground
Would you like to have this in our playground? We could use it to create a reading library outside to use during the break times.

11. Target amount:
£1500

12. We love reading at our school!
Sponsored Read
We love reading at our school!
Let’s work together and raise the amount to buy this for our playground!

13. Sponsored Read Start Date: 20th June 2019
Sponsored Read End Date: 3rd July 2019
It would only be possible if you ask friends and family members to sponsor you!

14. Thank you for listening to year 6 Reading Gladiators assembly

15. Photos of us doing the assembly…

16. Together we wrote a letter to the local businesses
Together we wrote a letter to the local businesses. We went to the local businesses with our teacher and presented our ideas to them as well as handing them our letter.

18. One of the responses from the local business

19. We were really impressed with by their generosity.

20. Our online project…

21. Selling ice-lollies during lunch break…

22. So far we have raised… Total so far --- £1,988.00
We have really enjoyed this project and we are so pleased to say we have already exceeded our target.
So far we have raised…
Sponsored Read at school --- £1,044.00
Local business --- £ 400
Online ‘Gofundme’ --- £409
Ice-lollies sale --- £135
Total so far --- £1,988.00