To celebrate and encourage a lifelong love of reading at home and school, we are running a sponsored read between Wednesday 23rd February and Friday 4th March.

The project is being organised in conjunction with our local Usborne Partner, Deborah Simm, and all the money raised will go towards a range of brand new books celebrating diversity and inclusion for our school library. In addition to the sponsorship money, Usborne will also donate up to 60% of the total raised in EXTRA FREE BOOKS to the school. So, for every £600 raised, we will get an extra £360 in FREE Usborne books!

Our target is to raise as much money as we can no amount is too big or too small. For example, if every child in the school raised £2 each, then we would raise over £600 in sponsor money, with Usborne donating an additional £360 of books for free. This will give us a total of nearly £1000 to spend on new books and resources for our children! Please also note that every child can take part in the reading challenge, regardless of whether they are able to donate sponsorship money.

Please help us to enhance our reading resources for pupils by encouraging your child to spend a small amount of time each day either reading to themselves, to others, or being read to. They can read books, comics, magazines, newspapers, menus, websites, recipes, poems, leaflets, and instructions anything with words!

There will also be an incredible prizes for the classes that clock-up the most reading minutes by the end of the challenge truly every minute counts and it is a team effort!

We will reveal the total amount of money raised the week commencing 7 th March, in a school assembly and via ParentMail. We look forward to having lots more books for your child to read, share and enjoy.

For more information, please contact: admin@dalmain.lewisham.sch.uk