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

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Royal Reading Challenge: Platinum Jubilee 2022

To celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee we're encouraging pupils to ramp up their reading whilst also discovering fun and interesting facts about her reign.

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UEFA Women's EURO 2022

Excited about the UEFA Women's EURO 2022? Join in with our free activities including a reading challenge, online events and a 'live story'.

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Power of Sport poetry competition

To celebrate the Commonwealth Games, hosted this year Birmingham, we’re launching a sports poetry competition with digital bank Chase – Birmingham 2022’s Official Banking Partner.

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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.

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Miles of Magic Reading Challenge

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone celebrates 25 years in print this year and our fun reading challenge with beautiful resources encourages the next generation of readers...

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We Wonder: Protect Our Planet

This fantastic and timely reading challenge will support and encourage students as they read, investigate and campaign for a sustainable future.

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The Twelve Days of Reading for Wellbeing

We all know The Twelve Days of Christmas but how about the Twelve Days of Reading for Wellbeing? No gold rings, and not even a partridge… but something much better!

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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.

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EURO 2020

EURO 2020 resources: an FA reading challenge and Tom Palmer's Roy of the Rovers story published live throughout the tournament!

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Immediate Magazine Reading Champions Challenge

Challenge your students to create their own magazine quiz as they discover how magazines are planned, written and published.

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We Wonder: Mission to Mars

Lift off with our fascinating and creative STEM reading challenge.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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