When I took over as Head of English at Greenfield Primary in 2017, I felt the need to spread my love of reading around the school as quickly and as powerfully as possible.  After researching different ways to do this, I stumbled across ‘Read for Good’ ‘s Readathon which jumped out at me as something […]

Welcome to Annan Academy’s Book Week: The Musical! Running Readathon means our students are taking their reading to another level, becoming a force for good. They are helping to provide books and storytellers to those who can’t be sitting in the classroom, or relaxing at home in their room, because they are in hospital. That […]

This year, a huge focus for Colegrave was to instil a love of books in all of our children whilst also showing our pupils the impact books can have on lives. Having researched lots of sponsored reads and wondering how best to choose a company, there was a feeling that they were all rather corporate […]

At Bacon’s College, running Readathon is way for us to state publicly and explicitly that we care about reading. It is a simple way to celebrate books visibly across the whole school. Students and staff see the programme as a challenge to both read as much as they can, and raise as much as they […]

When we canvassed our Library regulars here at Churcher’s College in Petersfield to find out how they wanted to celebrate Halloween this year, there was only one answer – a Haunted Library! Read for Good seemed the most fitting charity for the library to support with this fun event. We spent the morning hanging heavy […]

As part of our World Book Day celebrations, we held a 24 hour Readathon and library sleepover in the Learning Hub. 24 pupils from years 7-9 and 4 members of staff took part in the Readathon and had a variety of reasons for signing up- Sam, who read 2 books during it, had some books […]

Here at Mab Lane we were excited to take part in the first Liverpool-wide Readathon which ran during last year’s National Libraries Week. We all love reading! Our teachers chose really fun books to share with us that make us excited to do our work. Year 5 read Cosmic, by Frank Cottrell Boyce which is […]

We are a group of 19 Literacy students at Willingdon Community School in Eastbourne who have participated in Readathon for the first time this year. We had three main aims from this project: raise money for Readathon, encourage ourselves to read for enjoyment outside of school and to inspire other students to read. The freeing […]

Layla’s Mum tells us more.. When Layla heard about ‘Readathon’ from her school, she was so excited and could not wait to start. As a keen reader who loves books, she found huge sympathy with children who may not have the simple enjoyment of a book. Creating an online event, she was able to record […]

Spring term has always been the busiest on our calendar but this year more than ever it has been a joy to engage online with our schools, libraries, teachers, authors, partners and even a Hollywood Movie Producer (of Despicable Me fame), John Cohen (OK, it was one retweet – but, you know, WOW!).  From photos […]