The Reading for Pleasure Teacher Awards 2022

Are you passionate about encouraging your students to read for pleasure? The Reading for Pleasure Teacher Awards are back to recognise those teachers and schools who really make a difference!

To celebrate the triumphant teachers who successfully promote children’s reading for pleasure, both within and beyond the classroom, we’re once again partnering up with The Open University and the UK Literacy Association to present the Reading for Pleasure Teacher Awards!

As a leading children’s publisher, encouraging more children to enjoy reading drives everything that we do at Farshore. With our wonderfully broad range of books we hope to inspire all children to become proud and enthusiastic readers.

The Awards will be announced on Saturday 18th June 2022 at the OU/UKLA Reading for Pleasure conference (or online) with the winner from each catagory receiving Farshore books to the value of £250, 20 copies of Help Your Child Love Reading by Alison David, and a year’s subscription to Beano magazine for their school.

Submit your case study for an opportunity to be recognised by experts in children’s reading for pleasure.

Award Categories

  • Early Career Teacher (0-3 years in teaching)
  • Experienced Teacher (3 years plus)
  • Whole School
  • School Reading Champion (e.g. Librarians/other educators)
  • Community Reading Champion (immediate and/or wider community, from local area to local authority)

The Reading for Pleasure Awards 2022 will be judged by:

  • Joy Court, Co-founder: All Around Reading
  • Teresa Cremin, Professor of Education, The Open University
  • Alison David, Consumer Insight Director, Farshore
  • Fiona Evans, Head of Schools Programmes, NLT
  • Cally Poplak, Executive Publisher, Farshore Books
  • David Reedy, UK Literacy Association
  • Mike Stirling, Creative Director, Beano Studios

DEADLINE: Midnight on Monday 28th March 2022.

ENTRIES: All entries to be marked ‘Submission for Farshore RfP award’ and submitted to https://ourfp.org/share-your-practice/

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