FOLLOWING a successful application for a grant from the Siobhan Dowd Trust, Newent Community School and Sixth Form has acquired a collection of books in Polish, Romanian and Hungarian.
Students at the school who do not speak English as their first language can now study read Hamlet, Of Mice and Men, A Christmas Carol and other set texts in their mother tongue.
There are also books for leisure reading, including the Harry Potter series, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and others.
School librarian Deborah Gibbons said: "Some students were struggling to access set texts and being limited in their choice of leisure reading by their lack of English vocabulary."
She applied for funding to the trust, which funds efforts to bring the joy of reading and books to children and young people.
Though the trust had not previously received a bid of this sort before, it was open to the request and supplied some £400 to fund a good starter collection.
The books have now been added to the library's stock and several have already been borrowed. The school now intends to expand the collection whenever possible.
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