2025/2026
Reading challenge
As part of our ongoing work to support children, we run Reading Challenges. They are designed to encourage reading for pleasure, as well as developing reading stamina and increasing reading diversity.
Anyone is welcome to take part. The Reading Challenge starts 1st September, 2025 and finishes 30th April, 2026.
How to take part?
You can see below a list of 40 challenges. Pick a book to tick one of them, read it and report to the Student Council President. For every book you are getting up to10 points. Please, read age appropriate books.
Arts-themed (for example music, dance, drama, art).
Title starting with the letter ‘E’.
Chapters have titles.
Set in a school.
Author is not from the UK.
Author is from a UK nation that isn’t England.
A book based on a real person.
Set in Yorkshire.
A character with superhuman ability.
Translated into English or written in a language other than English.
Recommended by a member of staff.
A book that has an alternate title.
Related to the word ‘gold’.
Author with an X, Y, or Z in their name.
A wealthy character (fiction) or figure (non-fiction).
A main character (fiction) or figure (non-fiction) who experiences poverty.
Has an Author’s Note.
Award-winning book from England.
Over 400 pages long.
Has a blue cover.
Technology themed.
An author’s photo on the book cover.
Set in a rural area.
A book with photographs inside.
An anthology.
A book cover with illustrated people/
A job title in the title.
Author’s surname starts with the same letter as your surname.
Character or author shares your first name.
Has a film adaption.
Book with a king or queen.
Book set in the woods or mountains.
Book you’d recommend to your grandma.
Book with a possessive noun in the title (‘s).
Book of poetry.
Book that might make you cry.
Book with a one-word title.
Book published in the 20th century.
Book published in 2025.
Book your mum loves.