Competition
Football Heroes competition
Our Football Heroes competition in partnership with Bonnier Books UK challenges pupils to create their own hero profile.
Competitions
As part of our ongoing work to support schools, we run exciting competitions every term, the purpose of which are to inspire young people to get involved in activities to improve their literacy (and have lots of fun at the same time).
These competitions are open to and completely free for all UK schools.
Current competitions
Sponsor a competition
Competitions can be specific to an age group or can run across multiple age groups. They are a great way to promote a brand to teachers, children and young people and their parents.
Our competitions reach a large number of people, attracting up to 5,000 entries from over 200 schools. Many more settings will engage with the resources which remain available on our website after the competition comes to an end.
If you're interested in sponsoring a competition, please contact our Partnerships Manager, Chris Greenfield, on christopher.greenfield@literacytrust.org.uk.
Success stories
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.
Success story
Pirate Reading Adventure helps to change attitudes to learning at Holy Trinity School
Key Stage 1 and early years pupils at Holy Trinity Catholic Primary School in Liverpool took part in our Pirate Reading Adventure competition.