📚Derby Children's Picture Book Award 2025📚 Around 5600 children are currently reading through our annual book award shortlist and we can't wait to see their chosen winner in just a couple of weeks time!

ELS member schools - take part in the InspiRead excitement this spring - visit: bit.ly/4h162ep If you're interested in taking part in InspiRead 2025, and don't currently use our service, get in touch with our team! Email us at: [email protected]

📣 Calling Primary English Leaders & Headteachers! Ready to embed a rich, school-wide Reading for Pleasure culture?📚✨💙 Then join a briefing for our Primary #OUReadingSchools 25/26 - next on Tue 25 March, 4-5pm. Sign up here 👉 ow.ly/kSV450UVmKl #RfP #PrimaryEd #UKEdChat

It's #WorldPoetryDay, so our #BookOfTheDay is a delightful volume of animal poems with something for everyone! It's #SqueakSquawkRoar from Kate Williams (Kate Williams) and Hannah Asen: booktrust.org.uk/book/s/squeak-… Otter-Barry Books

A brilliant staff meeting tonight, with thanks to my amazing colleagues, we have started to create our transcription progression map. Allenton Primary #teamworkmakesthedreamwork

Visit Grasmere this holiday! Glorious! You’ll even find signed copies of Angel of Grasmere as well as free copies of my 😇 book trail at Sam Read Bookseller. tompalmer.co.uk/angel-of-grasm…

Wow! Lots of great writing, from across the school, this half term on display in our foyer! Allenton Primary Allenton Foundation Stage Allenton Year 1 Allenton Year 2 Allenton Y6

Yesterday Year 1 read Paper Dolls by Julia Donaldson and then had a go at making their own! Over the next few weeks we will be writing instructions all about how to make paper dolls ✍️

It was great finding out what some of Year 1 got up to over the Easter holiday with their writing today!

A fun hook into your haiku writing!

This week we have been reading ‘A Planet Full of Plastic’ in Shared Reading. Today the children did some amazing writing about what they had learned, thinking about the ways in which plastic impacts our environment 🌎

Our InspiREAD 2025 book award shortlist has been released, and voting is now officially open! We can't wait to see which books are your favourites 🤩 You can cast your votes in all three categories here: bit.ly/3RPrFnG

Have you voted yet for our InspiRead 2025 Book Awards?✨ Our shortlist has been selected by our ELS team and features the best children's books published recently! Now it's time to have your say & help us choose the winners 👀 Voting closes on 20 June 📣 inspireculture.org.uk/inspiread2025

We're hosting FREE virtual author talks for primary schools this June! 📚 Pupils can meet and hear from our shortlisted authors: 📅 Tues 3 June | 10am – Leigh Hodgkinson 📅 Thurs 5 June | 10am – Derek Keilty 📅 Thurs 5 June | 2pm – Sam Sedgman Sign up: qrco.de/authortalksjune

Over the last two weeks Year 1 have been writing shape poems about materials. Here is just a snapshot of some of their amazing work! ✍️

Hello teachers: I've done 7 poetry workshops here for you to use. You can use them as ideas that you then adapt for yourself, or, play them straight into your room as teaching units in themselves. youtube.com/c/MichaelRosen…

Looking forward to an insightful day of training linked to the sequence of writing and transcriptional fluency. Allenton Primary CPD Transform Trust

Get to know the InspiREAD 2025 nominees! 🤩 Sam Sedgman is the wonderful author behind 'The Clockwork Conspiracy', which has been nominated under our Longer Books category 🕒📚 To learn more about InspiREAD, get involved, and cast your votes, visit: bit.ly/41r4lRs

Our InspiRead 2025 Book Award winners are here! ⭐ After 8 exciting weeks and over 2000 votes from readers across Nottinghamshire (and beyond!), we’re thrilled to reveal this year’s winners....starting with our Picture Book category: 🚶‍♀️🎒 A Wild Walk to School by Rebecca Cobb!

The winner of our Longer Book category is Shadowhall Academy: The Whispering Walls by Phil Hickes! 🏰👻 A huge thank you to everyone who read, shared and voted! 📖 Missed any of our InspiRead author talks? You can still watch them online at inspireculture.org.uk/inspiread2025