Inspire ELS
@InspireELS
The official Inspire Education Library Service (ELS) account.
Our InspiRead 2025 Book Award winners are here! ⭐ After 8 exciting weeks and over 2000 votes from readers across Nottinghamshire (and beyond!), we’re thrilled to reveal this year’s winners....starting with our Picture Book category: 🚶♀️🎒 A Wild Walk to School by Rebecca Cobb!
The books we love when we're young change our lives forever - and so do the people who help us find those books. So here's an everlasting THANK YOU to all the amazing teachers, librarians, booksellers & everyone else out there who's helping kids find books they love! #literacy
Audiobooks for all! Spotify and generous publishers are helping make the #SummerReadingChallenge more accessible by offering free audiobooks this summer! Find out more: readingagency.org.uk/spotify-suppor… #StoryGarden #SpotifyAudiobooks
READING FOR PLEASURE has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children’s life chances. So whatever else you do, please never stop helping kids find books to read & love. Never stop sharing books, talking about books, celebrating books. It'll change their lives! #literacy
We're super pretty with gorgeous books for your browsing delights, but aside from a visit from a flapping bird (safely released) we have looked like this all day. Why not ask for a rec or browse online? Get yourself book ready for the weekend!
Check out this week’s #StoryGarden booklist theme: Forests, Trees & Wilderness, stories rooted in forests, wild places, and natural magic. Head to your library or explore the books here 👉️ bit.ly/41ZHlL0 #SummerReadingChallenge
Schools across the country have now broken up for the summer holidays and if you are looking for ways to encourage children to enjoy books and stories I hope that some of the books and links I am sharing here will be helpful to you. #Summerreading alibrarylady.blog/2025/07/23/sum…
Agree, once set up or indeed refurbished/ relaunched libraries need continuous investment and management. School library services are a good way to ensure continuity of stock , quality , range and diversity @InspireELS
A thought for the holidays. If you want your kids to get ahead - let them READ FOR PLEASURE! Let them discover the joy of reading for the sheer fun of it, with no strings attached, choosing for themselves, losing themselves in imagination. Everything else will follow! #literacy
Always make time to take your kids to libraries & bookshops. Always let them browse freely. These are places of magic & wonder - the places where we find the books that make us readers, and stay with us forever. These places change our lives! #literacy
A sensitively written story of 13 year old Samim’s journey from Afghanistan to Britain. My Name is Samim Written by #FidanMeikle Publisher @DiscoverKelpies A split narrative of Samim’s current life in foster care & his journey to Britain. For KS3 & top KS2.
The summer holidays are such a great opportunity for children to read for fun. No pressure, just relax and pick up a book when they fancy - and don't forget, it's all about choice. "Easy" books, "hard" books, fiction, poetry, non-fiction, prose, comics, pictures! 🥰
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Who's up for booze, bantz and signed books? I'm chuffed as chips to say that Nottingham's illustrious @FiveLeavesBooks will be hosting the launch of #THIRST from 7pm on 11 September. Register at fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/darren-…. Come along and say hello! 👋
📢 Final call! Applications for the #RfPAwards2025 close 21st July! ⭐📚 We’re celebrating teachers, schools & communities who champion #RfP 💙 👀 Most under-applied category? New teachers! Are one? Know one? Apply! 👉 ow.ly/iHsJ50W8vVu #OURfP #UKEdChat #Literacy
Congratulations to NI children’s author and Arts Council Major Individual Artist awardee, @Derekkeilty, whose book, 'Ivy Newt and the Storm Witch', has won an award in the Education Library Service’s InspiRead 2025 Book Awards! Written By Derek Keilty and illustrated by Magda…
Congratulations to the winner of our Shorter Book category, which was packed with magic, mischief and cast a spell on our readers.... 🧙♀️⚡Ivy Newt and the Storm Witch by Derek Keilty!
We’re excited to announce our partnership with Kumon and our Road to Reading Challenge this year! Join our new 10 week challenge for children aged 12+. Designed to keep them inspired and reading, with just 30 minutes a week. bit.ly/road-to-reading kumon.co.uk
We were thrilled to be at the Treasury yesterday as the Chancellor @RachelReevesMP committed to ensuring every primary school will have a library by the end of this Parliament.
Today the Writing Framework was published @educationgovuk - 🖊️ worth sharing and planning in time to discuss this Autumn 🖊️ gov.uk/government/pub… @TheWritingWeb @kashleyenglish @son1bun @EllenCounter
A brief introduction to #THIRST. Coming this September from @PushkinChildren.
Join the Summer Reading Challenge online! shorturl.at/XU9Se It launched today! 💫⭐️Also at a library near you! @readingagency Do share in school! @_Reading_Rocks_ _ @kashleyenglish @debbiet99313391 @UE_EnglishHub @SJVEnglishHub
#OUReadingSchools achieve: ⭐ Better reading attainment ⭐ Strengthened reading leadership ⭐ Improved staff knowledge and practice ⭐Motivated readers ⭐Enriched home-school relationships around reading 📚 Find out more: 💙👉 ow.ly/xaaA50V1xL3 #RfP #Literacy #Teaching