Westminster City School Tutor Reading Programme
From non-fiction to classic texts, and from science fiction to historical fiction, our Westminster City School Tutor Reading Programme aims to inspire and enthuse all our young people.
Our Westminster City School Tutor Reading Programme sees form tutors read aloud to their forms twice a week, picking an age-appropriate book from a chosen list. Our young people are each given their own copy of the book, so they can follow along with the reading during their form time. Once the text is complete, the form tutor is able to select another book from our reading canon to read to the form group.
First News, the popular children's newspaper, featured our Westminster City School Tutor Reading Programme on Friday 10 September 2021 (see picture at the end of this page).
Our Westminster City School Tutor Reading Programme has also been praised by acclaimed author Nizrana Farook who said: "So happy to see The Girl Who Stole an Elephant among Westminster City School's Tutor Reading Programme. What a fabulous initiative."
Reading has always been a key part of life at Westminster City School, with class time regularly given to our youngest students for reading and over 200 books checked out from our library each week. Our Westminster City School Tutor Reading Programme is designed expand this love of literature, as well as to increase the vocabulary and comprehension of our young people by exposing them to books that they may not have read before.
Our Westminster City School Tutor Reading Programme canon is:
| Year 7 | Year 8 | Year 9 | Year 10 | Year 11 | Year 12 | Year13 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-fiction |
The Diary of a Young Girl |
Black and British - A Short Essential History David Olusoga |
Chinese Cinderella Adeline Yen Mah |
I am Malala Christine Lamb and Malala Yousafzai |
Touching the Void Joe Simpson |
My Name is Why Lemn Sissay |
How Not To Be A Boy Robert Webb |
| Classic | Animal Farm George Orwell |
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson |
The Outsiders SE Hinton |
Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger |
The Great Gatsby |
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde |
Orlando Virginia Woolf |
| Diverse selection of authors and genres | The Girl Who Stole an Elephant Nizrana Farook Look Both Ways Jason Reynolds Private Peaceful Michael Morpurgo A Series of Unfortunate Events Lemony Snicket |
Enola Holmes: The Case of the Missing Marquess Nancy Springer Windrush Child Benjamin Zephaniah The Giver Lois Lowry The Girl of Ink and Stars Kiran Millwood Hargrave |
The Watcher in the Shadows Carlos Luis Zafon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time Mark Haddon The Woman in Black Susan Hill Bone Talk Candy Gourlay |
One of Us is Lying |
I Am Legend Richard Mathieson Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro Persepolis Marjane Satrapi Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier |
Midnight Library Matt Haig Exit West Mohsin Hamid The Silence of the Girls Pat Barker |
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe The Nickel Boys Colston Whitehead The Haunting of Hill House Shirley Jackson |
