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In order to celebrate World Book Day, encourage pupils' enthusiasm for reading and to raise money for charity, we have decided to run a Read for Good Readathon. This will take place at both Primary and Secondary from Monday 3rd March until Monday 10th March 2025 and we’d love your child to join in.

The charity Read for Good encourages children to read through its unique motivational approach that inspires reluctant readers to give reading a go and keen readers to read more widely. Pupils can choose whatever they want to read - from comics to classics and audiobooks to blogs - they are not being assessed, it’s all about reading for fun! And, they are motivated to read because the money they raise in sponsorship helps to provide a regular supply of brand new books and a resident storyteller to every major children’s hospital in the UK.

The evidence from other schools is clear: teachers, parents and pupils all say that the freedom to choose what to read, combined with the knowledge that they are directly helping children in hospital, makes participation easy and compelling.

All you have to do is:

1. Take a look at what they plan to read, or help them complete their list of books to read. Remember they can read whatever they want: books, e-books, poetry, comics – anything goes! Sharing books is fine too (in fact recommended!) as well as listening to audio books.
2. Help your child find sponsors among family and friends. The easiest way to sponsor a child is at https://readathon.my.salesforce-sites.com/sponsor

Please support your child’s sponsored read as much as you can. They’ll be helping children in hospitals get books, as well as helping themselves, and our school receives free books worth 20% of our grand sponsorship total, so there really is something in it for everyone. 

For more information visit:  www.readforgood.org.

Pupils can also win prizes for reading for the most amount of time in their year group. In order to enter pupils must return their reading cards to Mrs Bullard (Primary) or Mrs Davies (Secondary), or enter their minutes reading here: https://forms.office.com/e/CYpSsqUnU6 by Wednesday 12th March 2025.