Exmouth Community College (ECC) has been awarded a ‘Tescos Golden Grant’ worth £5,000 this term as part of the supermarket’s ‘Stronger Starts’ campaign.
The grant was awarded after a customer shopping at Tesco Rolle Street, Exmouth, discovered a golden version of Tesco’s famous blue voting token during the store’s designated “golden hour.” Whoever finds the golden token gets to decide which community project receives a £5,000 grant
ECC will now use the grant to strengthen its reading initiatives, ensuring students have the opportunity to engage with challenging and inspiring texts. Current Year 7 students are reading Wonder by RJ Palacio, while Year 9 students are exploring The Fault in Our Stars by John Green during tutor time.
At Exmouth Community College, which is part of the Ted Wragg Trust, the English faculty delivers a knowledge rich curriculum built around the key concepts of power and identity, with ambitious reading, writing and oracy at its core. From the moment pupils join Exmouth, staff develop a love of reading in students through high expectations, strong library partnerships and regular literary events.
Lea Carpenter, Director of English at Exmouth Community College, said: “We are extremely grateful to Tesco and to the customer who chose us for this grant. It will make a meaningful difference to the experience of our students at Exmouth Community College and we are excited to begin putting it to good use.”
Tom Inman, Headteacher at Exmouth Community College said: “We are so grateful to Tesco for this generous grant. We will now further develop our reading programme in order to encourage a love of reading and give our students the key skills they need to thrive in life. This grant will enable us to connect our students, staff and our wider Exmouth community through literature.”
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