From January to July 2012 we are running a special project for schools…
TELL US WHAT YOU DO TO SPREAD A JOY OF READING IN YOUR SCHOOL…AND WIN £1000 WORTH OF BOOKS!
Michael Rosen, Poet, Performer ex-Childrens’ Laureate, and Reading enthusiast-extradinaire has agreed to be a judge in our new campaign to build a data-base of good ideas for all teachers to contribute to, use, build upon and be inspired by…
Click here for Michael’s 20 tips for building a book loving school, but we’d like to know about any of your initiatives which have encouraged reading and books within your school. All we need is a very brief email (see form below) and you could be one of 10 winning schools. The winning initiatives will be picked by a panel of Education and Childrens’ Books experts.
The winning schools will receive books suitable for your pupil’s age group selected by Julia Eccleshare (Author of 1001 Children’s Books: You Must Read Before You Grow Up) and Daniel Hahn (who has edited the Ultimate Book Guides for Children and Young Adults and is currently compiling the new Oxford Companion to Children’s Literature). The competition will end on August 1st 2012, and the books will be sent out furing the Autumn term.
Please fill out the form to enter
*Sorry, but fee-paying schools are not eligible for a prize, though we would still welcome good ideas for encouraging reading… We’ve asked about the percentage of pupils on free school meals, a rough guide we know and while schools in more prosperous areas are eligible for entry if their initiative is very strong, we do exist to favour readers from a disadvantaged background.
Closing date: August 1st
Returned forms and further information: director@siobhandowdtrust.com
Database for teachers
Some ideas we’ve already heard about (but we’d like to hear more to be used and inspire elsewhere…please get in touch)
At Brooklands Primary School in Greenwich, they are about to launch a “Readers for life” project which will include parent and child reading groups, visiting authors, help and advice for Parents about encouraging their child to read for pleasure and organising plenty of book sales and book swaps. Their aim is to…
Read more ... Arnhem Wharf Primary School in Tower Hamlets have hosted many authors and illustrators over the years: in 2011 the then Children’s Laureate, Anthony Browne visited and played the Shape Game with staff, children and parents. Pupils had prepared for the visit doing their own versions of Anthony’s illustrations. In 2012, Axel…
Read more ... At Ashmead Primary School in Lewisham, a health and safety concern turned into a book initiative: the new Head was worried about pupils using a slope covered in astroturf as an unofficial skidding hill -- he re-designated it the Reading hill and every day at break times and lunch boxes of books…
Read more ... A need for funds to buy books led to a 24-hour Read-a-thon for Mitchell Brook Primary School in Brent:Someone in the school had to read for every part of that time and 60 children stayed overnight at school to complete the challenge. Organiser and Literacy Co-ordinator Rachel Clarke said “This thoroughly engaged…
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