Unlock the Magic of Christmas Reading with Our Classroom Advent Calendar!
Christmas teaching resource: Free for Primary School Teachers – Sign Up Today! This December, make reading part of your class's Christmas tradition with a virtual Advent Calendar designed to inspire a love of books and bring festive joy to your classroom! Each day,...
#RR_BooksAwards 2025 Winners
The #RR_BooksAwards celebrates the brilliant books that have featured in our teacher subscription book box service for the academic year 2024/25. Books are selected for the box as excellent examples of quality children’s literature for the primary classroom. The...
Alan, King of the Universe Book Review
#RR_BooksAwards 2024 Winners
The #RR_BooksAwards celebrates the brilliant books that have featured in our teacher subscription book box service for the academic year 2023/24. Books are selected for the box as excellent examples of quality children’s literature for the primary classroom. The...
Unlock the Magic of Christmas Reading with Our Classroom Advent Calendar!
Christmas teaching resource: Free for Primary School Teachers – Sign Up Today! This December, make reading part of your class's Christmas tradition with a virtual Advent Calendar designed to inspire a love of books and bring festive joy to your classroom! Each day,...
Reading Rocks’ Reading for Pleasure Sprint 2024!
Are you looking to nurture a reading for pleasure culture in your classroom? Whether you are a new teacher looking for new and practical ideas or a more experienced teacher looking for a refresher and little tweaks, this week will give you a boost and bring a bookish...
The Girl Who Couldn’t Lie interview with the Radhika Sanghani
'The Girl Who Couldn't Lie' is a fresh, funny story about white lies, brutal honesty and a bangle with special powers by the award-winning journalist and author Radhika Sanghani. I had an opportunity to interview Radhika and ask her some questions about this...
An adventure book that inspires STEM learning through fun quests!
SuperQuesters: The Case of the Angry Sea This great book, SuperQuesters: The Case of Angry Sea by Thomas Bernard and Lisa Moss was in our recent key stage 1 book subscription. Part of the SuperQuesters series, it immerses children in an exciting STEM learning...
Drawn to change the world – Tackling climate change through education
Talk of the climate crisis is all around us and the effects of climate change are a concern to many young people today. Teachers have a role in raising awareness of the climate crisis and helping pupils acquire the skills and knowledge for a sustainable future....
The magic of author events for primary schools
The magic of Inspiration I count myself very lucky. I have seen many, many author and illustrator events, from being a teacher organising them at my school, visiting book festivals with my daughter, at Reading Rocks conferences for teachers, taking...
Why using your Pupil Premium Grant Funding to support your Reading for Pleasure strategy is vital
Have times ever felt so tough in your teaching career? The challenges our pupils and families are facing are many, not to mention our internal crisis of underfunding and teachers leaving the profession. We face the cost of living crisis, growing mental health issues...
Teachers as readers – the teaching superpower!
As we welcome new ECTs to the profession this September, we want to focus on encouraging and nurturing teachers as readers. As a primary school teacher do you ever find yourself asking any of these questions? “Do I REALLY need to read children’s books?” “I know...
Escape to the River Sea blog tour
We are delighted at RR HQ to be part of this special blog tour to celebrate the publication of Escape to the River Sea. We know many Reading Rockers are huge fans of Journey to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson and as mega fans of Emma Carroll too, Queen of historical...
5 Years as a Reading Ambassador: A Positive way to spend Pupil Premium Funding
As we approach the launch of our PPG Book service, we are delighted to welcome Sara Leath to the blog to share her experiences as a Reading Ambassador. It’s so interesting to read about this way to use PPG funding to ensure vulnerable pupils can be given the...
Getting the Most from Pupil Premium
In the build up to our Pupil Premium Grant Book Service going live in June, we have been thinking a lot about the best ways schools can invest their Pupil Premium Grant funding to ensure the gap for disadvantaged pupils is closed. Today, we are joined by Angela Smith...
The Pupil Premium Grant and securing strong outcomes for disadvantaged students
In the build up to our Pupil Premium Grant Book Service going live in June, we have been thinking a lot about the best ways schools can invest their Pupil Premium Grant funding to ensure the gap for disadvantaged pupils is closed. Today, we are joined by Nadia...
New website for Reading Rocks!
Well, this is all very exciting isn’t it?! A brand-new website – ta dah! Just over a year ago, in lockdown, I launched the RR Teacher Book Subscription. I can’t tell you the joy it brings me that so many teachers have signed up to this service and enjoyed the books we...
#BadPanda by @SwapnaHaddow & @SheenaDempsey with @FaberChildrens – Blog Tour Post!
Are you ready for a fun, hilarious read full of warmth, giggles and even a whopper panda dump?! Of course you are! So grab yourselves a bamboocino or maybe a chocolate sundae with pizza sprinkles and sit back and enjoy Bad Panda by the fantastic duo that is Swapna and...
Why teaching empathy at a young age is important and how picture books can help – an #EmpathyDay post by author @Karlwheel
We all need a little guidance at times, don’t we? Especially when we’re brand new here; when we’re learning to walk, holding our first spoon, learning how to spell our name… Learning how to do these things is a given for us all - no one would expect a child to know...
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