The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival 2023

Reading Teachers = Reading Pupils Conference

Reading Teachers = Reading Pupils is a national network of teachers’ book groups who read high-quality and diverse children’s literature in order to ignite the spark of reading for pleasure in teachers and, through them, their pupils.

Since 2021, Cheltenham Festivals has run an annual Reading Teachers = Reading Pupils Conference as part of The Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival. The Conference is a full day of CPD on reading for pleasure for KS2 and KS3 teachers, School Librarians, Headteachers and literacy and education experts from around the country, including many of our Strategic Partners such as CLPE, the English and Media Centre, Seven Stories: The National Centre for Children’s Books. With keynotes, panel discussions and workshops from authors, academics, literacy experts and fellow teachers, the day offers a holistic approach to encouraging children to read for pleasure, and it is designed to empower and equip delegates with insight, tools and practical ideas to refresh their practice, engage their pupils and bring books to life in the classroom.

Previous speakers include Aidan Chambers, Onjali Q. Rauf, Emma Carroll, Darren Chetty, Katherine Rundell and Frank Cottrell Boyce.

I will be taking part in a panel discussion chaired by Sharna Jackson about how reading can inspire you to change the world; it will cover how reading and the right books can inspire change in our own internal world (e.g., reading for well-being), in our societal/cultural world and I will represent how reading can motivate and empower us to make environmental changes.

Tickets on sale Sat 6th September