The weekend starts here #parkrun

How is my reading buddy 17 today?!

Pricing 2026/27 - The Literacy Engine Buy Buy Gears of Thought are monthly extended reading packs to embed modelled, non-fiction reading into your Tutor Programme or across the curriculum. It is back again for the 2026/27 academic year bi...

If you are looking to add some extended reading to your Tutor Time programme then check this out. Our knowledge rich and evidence based programme helps close the cultural knowledge gap that hinders many students from comprehending the world around them.

literacyengine.co.uk/index.php/pr...

Back to books - Sweden's schools cutting back on digital learning Swedish classrooms swap laptops for books, pens and paper, raising concerns from the tech sector.

Back to books - Sweden's schools cutting back on digital learning www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The best way to spend a Tuesday night

Loved Dead Straight Line. Brilliant male characters and lots for students to talk/think about. Thought Beth is Dead was very clever too, different to the usual YA thrillers.

First class set arrived today. Can’t wait to read this with y9 next week! #DeadStraightLine

Last week’s reading

What’s better than starting the weekend with a #parkrun? parkrun followed by an Easter Egg run! 10k done.

From Peepo! to Middlemarch: 25 books to read before you turn 25 An unmissable book for every year of your early life – with recommendations from Jacqueline Wilson, Michael Rosen, Katherine Rundell and more

www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

First training run done

Books changed my life, says Selina Brown, Queen's first reading hero Selina Brown, from Birmingham, says she is delighted to be the UK's first National Reading Hero.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A ‘masculinity crisis’ is brewing in UK schools, union says Misogynistic abuse of female staff is increasing, leaving teachers feeling ‘traumatised’ and ‘humiliated’

A ‘masculinity crisis’ is brewing in UK schools, union says www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Easter #parkrun

Teachers union warns of 'masculinity crisis' brewing in schools NASUWT's leader said there is a

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Teachers vow to 'fight censorship' after school book row The UK's largest education union says librarians have reported

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Teaching union votes against plans for new Year 8 reading test The government says assessments are

Teaching union votes against plans for new Year 8 reading test - and calls for increased funding for libraries in schools
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels Musical inspiration from Corinne Bailey Rae; danger in a magical academy; the adventures of an otter pup; a YA queer gothic fantasy, and more

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Help pupils with the move to secondary school and keep them reading over the holidays with #SummerBookClub

This year's read is SECRETS OF THE SNAKESTONE by Piu DasGupta🎉

Resources are free, and @nosycrow.bsky.social is providing discounted books 🙏

➡️ bit.ly/4lR2iQE

@piudg.bsky.social #KIdLitUK

This is genius-and so cleverly written. Thank you @andersenpress.bsky.social #KittyandMary

One to watch out for! Thank you @guppybooks.bsky.social #AFloodofMemories

Brilliant book post. Very much looking forward to this epic adventure - one boy’s battle against an evil robot empire! Thank you @andersenpress.bsky.social #Rusthead

Book club googly eye challenge for Red Nose Day

Friday afternoon fun with y7

Crookhaven: The family friendly TV drama hoping to attract book fans The show, based on a book series by JJ Arcanjo, follows a group of students at a school for crooks.

Family-friendly TV drama Crookhaven hopes to be latest hit book adaptation www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We are living in a period of political anti-intellectualism. But in pop culture, clever is the new cool At the very moment Trump’s rambling speeches and meme–fied inanity threaten to overwhelm us, fashion, music and film are moving in the opposite direction

We are living in a period of political anti-intellectualism. But in pop culture, clever is the new cool www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...

School book banning escalates in the UK as Greater Manchester secondary school censors scores of books - Index on Censorship A school librarian faced a disciplinary hearing and scores of books were removed from her school library after she stocked Laura Bates’ Men Who Hate Women

www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/scho...

Definitely a Spring-y one today #parkrun

‘It’s like a giant book club’: how schools are getting children excited about reading again In the National Year of Reading, teachers say a culture of enthusiasm, from dress-up days, story time and book clubs, can reverse a national decline

‘It’s like a giant book club’: how schools are getting children excited about reading again www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...