Mrs Gidden's Cool Readers Club - Courtney

Priory’s Head of English, Mrs Gidden, has been really impressed with many of our multi-talented pupils and wanted to highlight their love of reading while excelling at other pursuits.

This week we interviewed Year 8 pupil, Courtney.

Courtney is a fan of the world of gods and Greek mythology with Rick Riordan’s many books.

She is currently reading ‘The Son of Neptune’ which is in ‘The Heroes of Olympus’ series.

“It’s about Greek gods and how they work and I find it interesting and educational,” said Courtney.

“Rick Riordan is my favourite author but I do like the Harry Potter books as well and I love The Goblet of Fire, they are all good fun to read though.”

Courtney’s favourite lessons are maths and science but she likes Accelerated Reading "because I can spend lessons reading my books".

In her spare time, Courtney does dance and drama at Amanda Rogers Dance School in Hutton.

“I go two days a week for three hours. We do modern, performance, acrobatics and perform in shows. We perform in a big show once every three years and we have Christmas and summer shows.”