Story Garden Summer Reading Challenge 2025 is nearly upon us.
Your local library may have already been in touch to organise an assembly to encourage children to take part. If not, please contact us if you're interested in a visit from your local library team.
If you're not able to hold an assembly with staff from your local library, please consider showing the Summer Reading presentation (PPTX 7.93MB) in your classrooms to explain what the challenge is all about.
The Summer Reading Challenge, presented by The Reading Agency and funded by Arts Council England, is the country’s largest campaign designed to encourage primary-aged children to read for pleasure.
Presented in partnership with public libraries, each summer over 700,000 children across the country take part in this fun and free programme which helps keep children reading over the long summer break and ward off the dip in literacy levels that can result from the time out of the classroom.
For more information visit The Reading Agency website.