At Brigg Primary School, we are celebrating the National Year of Reading 2026, which is the biggest campaign in a generation designed to help more people (re)discover the joy of reading and make it part of their everyday lives. Reading expands our world and sharpens our minds, yet fewer people are making time to read. A Department for Education initiative, in collaboration with the National Literacy Trust, the campaign aims to tackle the profound decline in reading enjoyment in the UK and reconnect people of all ages with reading. The campaign asks the nation to Go All In and at Brigg Primary, WE ARE! To celebrate and encourage a lifelong love of reading at home and school, we are running a sponsored read between 2nd April to 15th May.
The project is being organised in conjunction with our local Usborne Partner, Hannah Lynaugh, and all the money raised will go towards brand new books for our school. In addition to the sponsorship money, Usborne will also donate up to 60% of the total raised in EXTRA FREE BOOKS to the school. So, for every £600 raised, we will get an extra £360 in FREE Usborne books!
Our target is to raise £1000 in sponsor money, with Usborne donating an additional 60% of books for free. This will give us a total of £1600 to spend on new books and resources for our children.
Please help us to enhance our reading resources for pupils by encouraging your child to spend a small amount of time each day either reading to themselves, to others, or being read to. They can read books, comics, magazines, newspapers, menus, websites, recipes, poems, leaflets, instructions – anything with words!
The children who read for the most minutes in KS1, Lower KS2 and Upper KS2 will receive a PRIZE! So there will be THREE prizes up for grabs that will be handed out in an assembly following the closing of the fundraiser!
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