Books for Pupils

We are delighted to share the launch of our Summer term book gifting event as part of the 2025-2026 Discovery Programme, run in partnership with the Children’s Book Project, a literacy charity dedicated to tackling book poverty. 

The programme has given every child in our school the exciting opportunity to choose and take home six books of their own over the course of this year. 

Books are entirely free of charge and are for children to keep or to pass on to friends. 

The programme has featured three unique book gifting events, one per term, designed to nurture positive reader identities, boost reading motivation and of course celebrate the joy of book ownership. Your child is automatically invited to participate in each event, and we’ll keep you updated on upcoming dates. 

This term, gifting will take place via a school ‘BookQuest’ chart where children are invited to freely choose two books from a huge array available, and then reflect and talk about what prompted their choice, and then mark the reasons for their chosen books on the huge BookQuest wall poster. The children will bring their books home on either Thursday or Friday.

We look forward to seeing which books your child chooses and the reflection and celebration of their reading motivations. We invite you also to talk with your child about the reasons for their book choices and enjoy exploring their new stories together. 

For more details about the Children’s Book Project, please visit childrensbookproject.co.uk. 

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