We've also launched the Readathon Joke Book project in. We believe telling jokes is an important literacy skill and we're asking teachers to help us collect pupils favourite jokes for a forthcoming Readathon Jokebook. To find out more about the project and how your school can get involved, click here.

We’re changing our website too – making it easier to use with more information, more resources and more fun things to do. As you can see we’ve already changed the way it looks and we’ll be adding lots more content in the coming months.

And we've designed new sponsorship cards – or “reading passports” as we call them. These have always been one of the most popular things in the Readathon Pack but this year we’ve made them even better and given them a new look. We’ve created different designs for Keystage 1, 2 and 3 pupils.
 
Over the next six months we’ll be increasing our resources for both schools and parents. Our Parents' Guides are now available as downloads from this website and we’re busy developing other useful materials which will be available soon.  
 
We are also working with several children’s publishers to provide every child who takes part in Readathon with their own bookmark. These are full colour on both sides for junior and secondary schools while our youngest bookworms will get one with either a picture to colour in or a spot-the- difference on one side.  

And that’s not all. In fact, it’s just the beginning of what promises to be a really exciting year.More will be revealed soon… so watch this space!