Join the EMC-Cheltenham Festivals' Reading Teachers=Reading Pupils Book Group
The English and Media Centre is delighted to be working with Cheltenham Festivals in delivering the Festivals’ network of teacher book groups in London.
Reading Teachers = Reading Pupils is a Cheltenham Festivals programme delivered in partnership with like-minded organisations across the UK including Book Council of Wales, Bradford Literature Festival, Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE), English and Media Centre (EMC), Just Imagine, National Literacy Trust, KEAP (The Writers’ Block), Peters, Seven Stories the National Centre for Children's Books, The Reader, Wigtown Festival Company and The Story Museum.
Set up in 2016, the national network of teachers reading groups aims to inspire reading for pleasure because research shows that children who read for pleasure experience high levels of well-being, engage in learning and are successful in life.
EMC is hosting a secondary RTRP programme.
All sessions are led by Kate Oliver and other members of our expert teaching team at EMC. The group is FREE to attend, and the shared resources are distributed throughout the year along with two copies of each of the 5 titles.
Applications for the year 2021-22 are now closed but you can keep up to date with the project on this page.
EMC Key Dates 2021-2022
Our meetings. led by Kate Oliver, run after school, lasting for 90 minutes.
Launch event:
- Tuesday 19th October 2021 4.30-6pm
Reading group meetings (4.30-6pm):
- Tuesday 23rd November 2021
Notes from the meeting on 23rd November can be downloaded here.
Collated notes from the book group meetings on Cane Warriors can be downloaded here.
- Tuesday 25th January 2022
Notes from the meeting on 25th January on Talking to Alaska can be downloaded here.
Collated notes from the book group meetings on Talking to Alaska can be downloaded here.
- Tuesday 15th March 2022
- Tuesday 17th May 2022
- Tuesday 21st June 2022
Sharing session
- Thursday 30th June 2022
This programme is supported by Arts Council England, Thirty Percy, and the Unwin Charitable Trust.
