Connect and collaborate with teachers and pupils in a different country to foster a love of reading, celebrate diverse literature and engage young readers. Grow your reading community by sharing your favourite books and stories with your partner school and develop a shared passion and enthusiasm for reading.
On this six-month project, focusing on ‘reading for pleasure’, we will introduce you to a partner school and provide you with a range of suggested curriculum-related activities which you and your pupils can develop along with pupils in your partner school.
This programme is aimed at primary level, ages 7 to 11.
Register your interest for future rounds.
We will run further rounds of this guided partnership project in 2025. Register your interest so we can contact you with dates and details. Priority will be given to schools who have not had an international partnership before.
For primary schools in the UK, follow the link:
Register your interest in a guided partnership
Schools outside the UK can register on our Partner Finder database.
“Reading is an exercise in empathy, an exercise in walking is someone else’s shoes for a while.”
Malorie Blackman, British writer and children's laureate from 2013-2015
We were thrilled to welcome poet and childrens's laureate for Wales, Alex Wharton who led our live Reading for pleasure celebration event in November 2024. Schools from all over the world joined us as part of International Education Week to celebrate the joy of reading. You can take part in the interactive workshop with your class via the video recording of the event. Listen to Alex as he reads his poems and use your imaginations to draw the animals that feature in his poems. Alex also tells us what reading means to him and the importance of reading for his writing and in his life. Heads up: get your paper and your colouring pencils ready!
The workshop is aimed at primary level, ages 7 to 11.