LGBT Inclusion in Catholic RE

An interactive discussion about the best way to use the resources of the Rooted in Reading range to encourage reading for pleasure in your secondary school.

An interactive discussion about the best way to use the resources of the Rooted in Reading range to encourage reading for pleasure in your secondary school.

An interactive discussion about the best way to use the resources of the Rooted in Reading range to encourage reading for pleasure in your secondary school.

The curriculum in all subjects is increasingly based on great texts which means teachers and students need to be able to read aloud to classes with confidence. To address this, Simon Day and I have de...

An informal discussion about the best ways to implement Rooted in Reading to get pupils in your school reading for pleasure.

Breaking Barriers: The Transformative Effect of Black Educators in Leadership

An informal discussion about the best ways to implement Rooted in Reading to get pupils in your school reading for pleasure.

If you would like to know more about how Rooted in Reading can help boost reading for pleasure in your school, please join me for this free, informal Q&A Zoom session.

An informal meeting where you can listen to Steve, creator of Rooted in Reading, talking about how best to implement the scheme in your school to boost reading for pleasure. Lots of opportunities to a...

Functional Fluency guides leaders at all levels in how to use the most effective behaviours, and how to change ineffective behaviours which are draining them or holding them back. To help school leade...

In the recent Teacher Wellbeing Survey conducted by the NASUWT, 86% of teachers surveyed said that their job had had a negative impact on their mental health during the last year. The survey also foun...

Compelling international evidence illustrates the potential of reading for pleasure for enhancing student reading achievement along with other learning and wellbeing outcomes. Yet profound challeng...

I’m a big fan of narrative poetry for young people –  are you?  It entices me in, holds me secure in a story, eager to read on, yet also enables me to enjoy the savours and flavours of poetry…

Discover the joy of 'Rooted in Reading' with Steve Willshaw Consulting. Enhance your reading for pleasure and explore reading passports.

Please join me for this free event where you will have a chance to hear all about how to use Rooted in Reading to get young people in your school reading for pleasure. Just click the RSVP button below...

"You cannot be what you cannot see"

Uprooted by Su Blackwell, currently on show at the National Centre for Craft and Design in Sleaford.Reading can have a transformational impact on young people and this is captured very dramatically by...

Uprooted by Su Blackwell, currently on show at the National Centre for Craft and Design in Sleaford.Reading can have a transformational impact on young people and this is captured very dramatically by Su Blackwell's piece shown here. In this short blog I will explain some of the quick, easy and cheap ways in which your school can get started on using Rooted in Reading to boost reading for pleasure.1. The original green passport. This can be used by pupils from Year 5 to Year 8, so would be ideal

Discover the joy of 'Rooted in Reading' with Steve Willshaw Consulting. Enhance your reading for pleasure and explore reading passports.

Back in November 2010 I was invited to go down to London to lead a research seminar at the DfE on the reading for pleasure promotion project, Rooted in Reading which I had begun in 2008.While walking ...

Tips and Q&A on how to maximise reading for pleasure in your school