Competitions
As part of our ongoing work to support schools, we are pleased to be able to run exciting campaigns and competitions every term, the purpose of which are to inspire children to get involved in activities to improve their literacy (and have lots of fun at the same time!). There’ll be some fantastic prizes up for grabs, and the best part is, the competitions are completely free and open to all UK schools.
Current competitions:
Write On (secondary)
Inspire your students to write and perform original poetry, taking inspiration from professional poets and at the same time learning about the importance of protecting their own and others' creativity.
Delivered in partnership with the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society
Your Monster Read (primary)
Get your classroom buzzing about books by challenging your pupils to share their favourite read in an exciting and original way on our special online platform.
Delivered in partnership with Oxford University Press on the Makewaves safe social learning platform.
Our past competitions:
Road to WrestleMania
We used the world of WWE Superstars and Divas to motivate your pupils, with fun tasks, free resources and fantastic prizes. Find out more
Delivered in partnership with WWE®
The Big Diamond Jubilee Read
We celebrated the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and got pupils excited about reading and writing with this literacy challenge, which received over 9,000 entries!
Delivered in partnership with Oxford University Press.
Supported by Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall.
Reading Miles Global Challenge (primary)
A family reading challenge that provided a platform for teachers to engage both pupils and parents using the concept of collecting points for reading together at home…and having fun along the way.
Delivered in partnership with Oxford University Press.
ReadThis (secondary)
An exciting competition that engaged students with reading using the power of peer-to-peer recommendation.
Delivered in partnership with Oxford University Press.
The ComiX Factor
A hugely popular comic-making competition that ran during the autumn term of 2011 and was delivered in partnership with Renaissance Learning, with the support of the fantastic Etherington Brothers.
View image galleries of the shortlisted and winning entries.
Voice it!
An exciting speaking and listening competition that was run in partnership with WWE® during the summer term of 2011.
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