An ambassador scheme designed by Shropshire Bookfest, in partnership with the University Centre Shrewsbury.

The aim of the scheme is to recognise and showcase primary schools who embrace Shropshire Bookfest’s school based projects and demonstrate creativity, imagination and success in harnessing a culture of reading for pleasure in their pupils.

The Leading in Reading Ambassador Award is valid for three years, after which time schools will be invited to reapply to ensure that their policies and strategies for promoting reading for pleasure continue to be evident.

The ‘Leading in Reading’ scheme is a fantastic way of recognising and promoting some of the excellent reading initiatives taking place within primary schools in the Shropshire area.

I was very impressed with the time that the staff had taken to develop strategies around reading. Headteachers, teachers and teaching assistants had clearly put a lot of time, effort and enthusiasm into making reading an accessible, pleasurable and interactive pursuit for their pupils.  Their hard work has clearly paid off as pupils at the schools I visited as part of their ‘Leading in Reading’ process demonstrated a real passion for reading. It was an absolute joy to sit down with the pupils to discover what it is that they love to read and why. I have come away from the experience with a very long reading list!

Dr Lucy Andrew – Lecturer in English Literature, University Centre Shrewsbury;

Programme Leader, BA English (Single Honours), University Centre Shrewsbury

November 2019

To establish whether your school should be considered, please download the Leading in Reading Guidance Notes here

To get in touch with the Bookfest team to discuss further, please get in touch here