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Free e-books for our children
We are delighted to let you know that our school is taking
part in Read for My School, the brand new national schools reading competition
from 21 January to 22 March 2013.
Long
term studies show that children who read for pleasure are significantly more
likely as adults to be in continued employment, own their own home, be IT
literate, trust others in their community and vote. Read for My School enables
all primary schools in England that have access to the internet to enter into a
free, secure digital literacy competition that promotes and encourages reading
for pleasure and rewards participants with the opportunity to win prizes for
themselves and their school by reading books and then recording their progress
online.
All
of our pupils in years 5 and 6 will be taking part in this fun, free competition that
will challenge them to read as many books as they can over the two month period.
We will assist pupils with signing up to the competition website, which is a safe and secure
environment that complies with child protection laws, and progressing through
the programme. However, parents and carers should also support their children by encouraging
them to spend time reading at home and talking to them about the books they’ve
chosen, as well as providing them with access to a computer so they can read
the free online books (if possible) and/or helping them to find suitable books in
your local library or bookshop.
The
competition is being run by The Pearson Foundation and Booktrust—organisations
that are both committed
to improving literacy and creating brighter futures for children of all
backgrounds. The programme also has support from the Department for
Education,
All
children and schools who take part in the programme are eligible to win prizes
drawn from a pot of 100,000 books kindly donated by Pearson, Penguin and DK.
If you would like further information, including all list of Recommended Reads for the competition, please visit the Read for My
School website at www.readformyschool.co.uk
Once
you are logged into the website, you first task is to pick the category that you
would like to read your first book from. There are eight to choose from:
Historical
Hits –
tales to take you back in time
It’s a
Mystery –
thrillers, whodunits and spooky stories
Keep
it Real –
books to fill your brain with facts
Laugh
out Loud –
rip-roaringly funny reads
Out of
this World –
titles with a touch of sci-fi, fantasy or magic
Stars
of theScreen –
books featuring characters from film and TV
Thrill
Seekers –
amazing adventure stories
Wild
Thing –
tales of animal antics
If you would like further information, including al
list of Recommended Reads for the competition, please visit the Read for My
School website at www.readformyschool.co.uk.
Win a prize!
Everyone who takes part in Read for My School will be awarded a
certificate. There will also be two special certificates for the pupil in your
school who reads the most books and the pupil who writes the best answers to
the questions on the website. If you win these awards, your teacher might also decide
to put you forward for regional and national awards, where you will compete
against pupils from up and down the country for fantastic prizes, which will be
announced soon! There’s also a pot of 100,000 books up for grabs, and your
school could be in with a chance of winning some of them.
