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World Book Day is a highlight on any school's calendar, and, when celebrated as part of a school’s intrinsic reading for pleasure culture, it’s the perfect cherry on the cake to celebrate the joy of books.  Here are some ideas and top tips to help schools promote a love of reading on World Book Day... and every day!

With World Book Day approaching, we encourage you to think about how you can use this event to promote inclusion.

Celebrating World Book Day? Here, we share some maths that may be hiding on your bookshelf within some well-known children’s books…

Ahead of World Book Day 2023, Rachael Brown explores an A to Z of texts to spark mathematical magic!  

On this International Day of Families, May 15th 2023, explore what family means to the children in your class through the use of diverse, high-quality literature recommended by the Primary English team. 

Empathy Lab’s Empathy Day 2024 will soon be here. Marie Lowen explores why schools should join in.

Discover engaging multiplication and division activities using beadstrings and One Hundred Hungry Ants by Elinor J Pinczes. Fun learning in primary maths for World Book Day.

Stop to look at life from the perspective of children in your setting. Find time to see the world at their level, figuratively and quite literally!

In this blog, Martin Galway shares the benefits of a healthy diet of short stories, especially when time is short, as well as a booklist of recommended collections.

Rickella Griffiths writes about celebrating black British history and wonderful books to accompany it.