We are developing our Excelsior Reads as part of our Excel Programme
These are the stories, poems, plays, speeches and articles that we believe everyone should read before they leave KS3, KS4 and KS5. Some examples are shown below.
| Excelsior Reads | Fiction | Poems | Play Non Fiction |
| KS3 | - Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah
- Tightrope by Gillian Cross
- The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend
| - The Schoolboy by William Blake
- The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
- The Pig by Roland Dahl
| - Boy and Going Solo by Roald Dahl
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
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| KS4 | - The Lovely Bone's by Alice Sebold
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- THUG by Angie Thomas
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
| - Caged Bird by Maya Angelou
- Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
- Daffodils by William Wordsworth
| - Introduction to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
- Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
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| KS5 | - The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- White Teeth by Zadie Smith
| - The Emigrants by Charlotte Smith
- All the World's a Stage by William Shakespeare
| - Invisible Women by Caroline Perez
- The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Richard Feynman
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