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20 Merchant Taylors’ Prep School Newsletter - 04.10.2017 MTP Literacy FirstAccelerated Champions Of TheYear What an incredible start to the new academic year. In the first four weeks back 82% of the boys in Years 3-8 have read 605 books, clocking up over 23 million words between them. Congratulations to Kush Patel Y5N2 who became the first Millionaire in the school this year. Kush has been a millionaire in every year since Year 3. Matthew Schiff Y6N1 became a multimillionaire with over 3 million words read since Year 4. Meanwhile, Jay Ghelani Y7N3 has made it to a staggering 10 million words, earning him the Platinum Award. Jay is now aiming to become an Honours Reader this year and is on track to reach the final ‘EPIC’ Award before he leaves MTP. It will be no surprise to be told that Newton currently lead the House board at this early stage of the term but there is everything to play for as the year progresses. Don’t forget boys, reading is expected every day, so at 30 minutes per day you should be averaging three and a half hours a week. Just think of how many books that adds up to in a year and how many millions of words you will have read! Remember, you check AR Bookfinder to see if the book you are reading is in Accelerated Reader. Rewards are also available to boys reading books outside of the AR system, if you let Mrs Smith know.