Enter Festive Poem Competition to Win Award-Winning Reading Programme

Registration for Reading Solutions UK’s 2024 Festive Poem Competition is now open, with schools nationwide invited to participate.

Submit your students’ festive poems for a chance to win the award-winning reading development programme DreamBox Reading Plus – for free!

One student’s poem will win their class access to the online adaptive programme for a year, and runners-up will receive up to £200 in vouchers.*

How to win

Students are asked to write a poem on the theme ‘Tales from the Snow’. Submitted poems can rhyme (or not), be free-verse or acrostic, but must be no longer than 12 lines. Maximise your school’s chances of winning by getting as many students as possible to take part.

Six shortlisted poems will be published for public voting on Reading Solutions’ social media channels, and the winner will be announced on the 7^th of January 2025.

Take part today

Registrations for the competition are now open! Poem entries must be submitted by midnight on Wednesday, 11th December 2024.

To help your class get involved, the Reading Solutions team have created lesson resources, which include writing prompts, poem submission templates and festive activity packs.

What is Reading Plus?

Reading Plus is an adaptive online reading development programme that enhances fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills in students from Key Stage 2 – Key Stage 4.

Students eligible for Pupil Premium, EAL, and SEND students are proven to benefit significantly from the programme’s personalised scaffolding, adaptive technology, and varied informative and cultural texts.

Key features include:

Inbuilt Summative and Formative Assessments – Results accurately identify each child’s skills gaps and place students on a personalised, age-appropriate reading journey.
The Reading Plus Guided Window – Students will see texts presented using the patented Guided Window feature to model good reading behaviour – improving their fluency and stamina.

Hear from past winners

Mrs Tawfik, Lead Practitioner of English at Meadow Park School, where student Jack Jolly won Reading Plus for his school in 2022, said: “The competition seemed like a wonderful opportunity to get the students to write. Some of the students at school have low literacy levels, and Reading Plus will help improve their reading ability.”

Michelle Watson, a Teacher at Hedworth Lane Primary School where Isabella Mowatt won Reading Plus for her school, said: “I highly recommend Reading Plus to other practitioners trying to develop children’s comprehension skills and promote reading for pleasure.”