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Children aged 7-11 will take home a bespoke booklet packed with literacy-based activities and a great outdoors booklist to inspire a summer of reading. The booklet also includes a...View details about Swindon Stories and Great Western Railway launch Reading Adventures competition to support children’s transition to secondary school -
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On Thursday 1 July, the British Society of Magazine Editors held its Talent Awards, where we were so thrilled to be the awards’ charity partner.View details about We thank the British Society of Magazine Editors for supporting us at their Talent Awards -
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In partnership with the Premier League Primary Stars, we’re bringing schools a week-long football and reading festival!View details about We announce author line up for the Premier League Primary Stars Reading Festival! -
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We are delighted to announce the delivery of 10,000 free resource packs to year 6 and year 7 students across the country in partnership with sustainable paper brand REY.View details about We team up with REY® paper to launch summer school comic book initiative -
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Join us on Monday 12 July from 14:00 - 15:00 for our Home Learning Environment Policy Webinar with MP Damian HindsView details about Policy Webinar: The role of the home learning environment in education recovery with MP Damian Hinds -
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We team up with children’s author Dave Cousins and ALCS to bring an exciting crime and mystery writing workshop to schools across our HubsView details about Primary schools across our Hubs take part in crime and mystery writing workshop with author Dave Cousins! -
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12 Hungry Little Minds story trails will launch the week beginning Monday 5 July with exclusive events for local parents and carers aged 2-5.View details about We are launching 12 new bespoke story trails across the country for children aged 2-5 -
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Today, on National Writing Day, we publish new research which finds that just 1 in 3 (34.5%) children and young people said they enjoy writing. This is down from 39.8% last year and...View details about Our new research reveals record low levels of writing enjoyment among children and young people this National Writing Day -
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In this challenge, pupils were tasked with designing a ‘hab’. We had an incredibly high standard of entries, and we’d like to thank everyone who participated.View details about We announce the We Wonder: Mission to Mars Reading Challenge winners! -
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We're teaming up with Premier League Primary Stars and author Priscilla Mante to bring children aged 7-11 a fun live event andactivitiesView details about We team up with Premier League and Priscilla Mante for exciting football takeover on Words for Life -
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We were delighted to bring five inspiring women to schools in Nottingham through an online panel discussion.View details about Words for Work: Women in Leadership’s panel event inspires 200 students across Nottingham -
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We launch new partnership with WHSmith and Macmillan Children’s Books, supported by Footballer Marcus Rushford MBE, to gift copies of Marcus’s new book to children who don’t have a...View details about WHSmith, National Literacy Trust and Macmillan Children’s Books, supported by Marcus Rashford MBE, partner in UK wide scheme to ensure every child has access to their own book at home -
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We launch new research with Octopus Energy which shows a quarter of 18-to-24-year-olds struggle to understand their energy bills.View details about We partner with Octopus Energy and Jack Monroe on new research which reveals a quarter of young people do not understand their energy bills -
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he Littlest Yak, the debut book from Hampshire-based Lu Fraser and Bristol-based illustrator Kate Hindley has been announced as the winner of Oscar’s Book Prize 2021!View details about Oscar’s Book Prize 2021 winner announced: The Littlest Yak by Lu Fraser and Kate Hindley -
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Alongside 29 businesses, we release an open letter to the government to recognise the business community’s support of children and young people’s urgent literacy needs throughout...View details about We call on the government to recognise business community’s support of literacy crisis -
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100,000 children and adults across the country took part in the #Take10ToRead challenge on Monday 10 May.View details about 100,000 people across the UK #Take10ToRead -
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Today marks one year of Bloomsbury Publishing’s incredible collection of short stories, artwork and poems, The Book of Hopes. To celebrate, we are extending the joyful e-edition so...View details about We celebrate one year of Bloomsbury Publishing’s The Book of Hopes by extending its free e-edition online -
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We are bringing children another fun Facebook Live event hosted by CBBC’s Ben Shires as well as a storytelling challenge for children aged seven to 12.View details about We team up with Premier League, Tony Dallas and Ben Shires for exciting wellbeing and storytelling takeover on Words for Life -
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Today we launched a project to look the provision and impact of primary school libraries, pre, during and post COVID-19, which will seek to imagine what the future of primary school...View details about Primary School Library Review launched