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...
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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...
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 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 Hewstone, Executive School Leadership Coach, who shares her thoughts and experience on investing in high quality professional development for teachers.
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...















