Competition
Beauty, the Beast and You
Immerse your students in the oldest of all fairy tales, Beauty and the Beast, exploring key characters and themes within the story.
Competitions and Reading Champions Challenges
As part of our ongoing work to support schools, we run Reading Champions Challenges every term. These challenges are designed to encourage reading for pleasure in schools, as well as developing reading stamina and increasing reading diversity.
Reading Champions Challenges are open to and completely free for all UK schools.
Read more about our Reading Champions programme.
Current challenges and competitions
Competition
Black Artists Shaping the World
Win a copy of Sharna Jackson’s Black Artists Shaping the World for you and your school library! (Ages 5-11)
Competition
Christmas Card Competition
We're inviting all primary-aged children to get creative and design a Christmas card. Winning designs, chosen by guest judge Nadia Shireen, will go on sale to support our work.
Competition
We Wonder: Protect Our Planet
Launching in January 2022, this fantastic reading challenge will support and encourage students as they read, investigate and campaign for a sustainable future.
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More Reading Champions Challenges
Here you'll find a full collection of our challenges, with all the guidelines and supporting resources that will enable you to run them at any time in your school. While the entry deadline may have passed we encourage you to use the ideas for classroom learning, or you may even choose to award your own certificates or small prizes for an in-school challenge.
Competition
EURO 2020
EURO 2020 resources: an FA reading challenge and Tom Palmer's Roy of the Rovers story published live throughout the tournament!
Competition
Immediate Magazine Reading Champions Challenge
Challenge your students to create their own magazine quiz as they discover how magazines are planned, written and published.
Competition
We Wonder: Mission to Mars
Lift off with our fascinating and creative STEM reading challenge.
Competition
The Reading Tree Challenge
Join our Reading Tree challenge to promote a reading for pleasure culture in your school and encourage students to share their book recommendations.
Success stories
Success story
We Wonder: Mission to Mars reading challenge accomplished by 750 students at Camborne Science and International Academy
Hundreds of students recently took part in our We Wonder: Mission to Mars reading challenge and teachers adapted the guidelines to create a series of seven lessons.
Success story
Pupils get inspired to write detective stories with our Timmy Failure competition
Holy Trinity Primary School in Dartford recently took part in our Timmy Failure: Crack the Case competition.
Success story
Alex Rider competition encourages boys to write
A class of Year 8 students at Carshalton Boys Sports College took part in our Alex Rider Secret Mission competition, which challenged students to write their own adventure story.