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Reading Gladiators

Annual inter-school reading challenges that inspire a love of reading.

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BETT awards finalist 2019

Just Imagine’s Reading Gladiators™ is designed to challenge and motivate readers who are reading, or have the potential to read, at greater depth in the year 2, year 4 and year 6.

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Reading Gladiators™ announced as BETT Award Finalist

Just Imagine are thrilled to announce their reading programme Reading Gladiators™ has been shortlisted as a finalist in the ‘Primary Content’ category at the 2019 BETT awards.   The Bett Awards, est. 2013, are a celebration of the inspiring creativity and innovation that can be found throughout technology for education. Reading Gladiators™ brings together online […]

Guest Teacher’s Blog: Tom Etheridge

This month’s blog is from Tom Etheridge at St Matthew’s Primary in Birmingham, UKLA Reading for Pleasure School of the Year 2018 . Tom explains how he works to get parents involved in the Reading Gladiators experience and how the books are becoming part of the literary history of his gladiator’s families. Reading Gladiators and Home-School Links

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Year 2

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Y2 North West

  • Just Imagine
  • St Paul’s C Of E Primary School, Bury
  • Sedgley Park Community Primary School
  • Fairfield Community Primary School
  • Ribble Drive Primary School
  • Belle Vale Community Primary School, Liverpool
  • Woodlands Community Primary School, Birkenhead
  • Banks Road Primary School
  • The Beacon CE Primary School
  • Norman Pannell Primary School
  • Chapel Street Primary School
  • St Thomas’s C.E. Primary School, Bury
  • Guardian Angels R.C. Primary School, Bury
  • St Joseph and St Bede R.C. Primary School
  • Unsworth Primary School
  • Bishops Martin Primary School
  • St Maries R C Primary School
  • St Joseph’s RCP School Ramsbottom

  • What does ‘awesome’ mean at St Joseph and St Bede?

    We used the iPad at SJSB to collate our ideas, and tweeted them to Stacy McAnulty, author of ‘Planet Awesome’. To our surprise, right at the end of our session …

Y2 Yorkshire and East Midlands

  • Just Imagine
  • Thorpepark Academy
  • St Joseph’s Catholic Primary, Derby
  • St Anne’s Catholic Primary School, Buxton
  • Springfield Primary School, Derby
  • Glenbrook Primary School

  • The Glassmaker’s daughter

    The children enjoyed using their visualisation skills by looking for clues within the text.

Y2 West Midlands

  • Just Imagine
  • Bearwood Primary School
  • Lodge Primary School
  • St Matthew’s C of E Primary, Birmingham
  • Holyhead Primary Academy
  • Percy Shurmer Academy
  • Montgomery Primary
  • Gilbertstone Primary School
  • Glenmead Primary School
  • Little Sutton Primary School
  • Henley Green Primary School
  • St George’s C of E Primary School, Birmingham
  • Frederick Bird Primary School
  • Pegasus Primary School
  • Court Farm Primary School

  • Henley Green Primary School – Year 2

    As you can see from our wide grins, we were thrilled to be awarded the runners-up prize in The Glassmaker’s Daughter mini-challenge!

Year 4

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Y4 North West

  • Just Imagine
  • St Paul’s C Of E Primary School, Bury
  • Sedgley Park Community Primary School
  • Fairfield Community Primary School
  • Ribble Drive Primary School
  • Mersey Drive Primary School
  • Higher Lane Primary School
  • Kearsley West Primary and Nursery School
  • Belle Vale Community Primary School, Liverpool
  • Whitefield Primary School, Liverpool
  • Woodlands Community Primary School, Birkenhead
  • The Beacon CE Primary School
  • St Paul’s Catholic Junior School
  • Norman Pannell Primary School
  • St Thomas’s C.E. Primary School, Bury
  • Whitefield Community Primary School
  • St Luke’s C of E Primary School, Bury
  • Christ Church C.E. Primary School, Walshaw
  • St Joseph and St Bede R.C. Primary School
  • Bishops Martin Primary School
  • St Maries R C Primary School
  • St Joseph’s RCP School Ramsbottom

  • Our Story Maps

    They’re not quite finished but we certainly enjoyed making them! Can you spot Wed Wabbit?

Y4 Yorkshire, East Midlands and the North East

  • Just Imagine
  • Thorpepark Academy
  • Academy 360
  • St Joseph’s Catholic Primary, Derby
  • Griffydam Primary School
  • St Anne’s Catholic Primary School, Buxton
  • Park Grove Primary Academy
  • Tockwith Primary Academy
  • Brotherton and Byram Primary Academy
  • Sproatley Endowed CE Academy
  • Edenthorpe Hall Academy
  • Overdale CP School
  • Montrose Primary School
  • Glenbrook Primary School

  • It goes like this….

    Our Gladiators used the patterned language within ‘Town is by the Sea’ to accompany storyboards of a day in their life. If you look carefully, you might see that one …

Y4 West Midlands

  • Just Imagine
  • Bearwood Primary School
  • Lodge Primary School
  • St Matthew’s C of E Primary, Birmingham
  • Percy Shurmer Academy
  • Montgomery Primary
  • Gilbertstone Primary School
  • Glenmead Primary School
  • Little Sutton Primary School
  • Parkfield Community School
  • Henley Green Primary School
  • St George’s C of E Primary School, Birmingham
  • Our Lady & St Teresa’s Catholic Primary School
  • Mount Nod Primary School
  • Frederick Bird Primary School
  • Pegasus Primary School
  • Oaklands Primary School
  • Court Farm Primary School

  • Parkfield Community School Town Is By The Sea

    We have been listening to ‘The Coal Miners Song’ by Jimmy Joe Lee and imagining what it would be like to be in a dark space. We tried moving around …

Year 6

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Y6 London

  • Just Imagine
  • Beam County Primary School
  • Southwood Primary School
  • St Matthias School
  • Archbishop Sumner C of E Primary School
  • Avonmore Primary School
  • Scott Wilkie Primary School
  • Carlton Primary School
  • Cubitt Town Junior School
  • Keir Hardie Primary School
  • Rosetta Primary School
  • St Paul with St Luke C of E Primary School
  • Lathom Junior School
  • Brampton Primary School
  • Cherry Lane Primary School
  • Whitchurch Primary School & Nursery, Stanmore
  • Elmhurst Primary, Upton Park
  • La Fontaine Academy
  • Hallsville Primary School
  • Essex Primary School

  • Francesca Stine Diamond Nines

    Now that we’ve finished reading the book, we worked in pairs and threes to rank different adjectives that could describe Francesca Stine. As you can see, we all agreed that …

Y6 South West

  • Just Imagine
  • Wansdyke Primary School
  • Filton Avenue Primary School
  • Gloucester Road Nursery & Primary School
  • Bridge Learning Campus
  • Uplands Community Primary School
  • Blaise Primary

  • Character study of Mercy

    Maja has made notes and drawn a picture to help her gather information about one of the principal characters in the story.

Y6 South East

  • Just Imagine
  • Iver Village Junior School
  • Lyminster Primary School
  • Mortimer St Mary’s CE Junior School
  • Whitley Park Primary and Nursery School
  • Townhill Junior School, Southampton
  • New Horizons Children’s Academy

  • Strange Star is fantastic!

    Iver Village Junior School Reading Gladiators were completely absorbed in Strange Star. They particularly liked the darker side to the plot and were delighted to accept the mini challenge. To …

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