17/07/2026
To celebrate the National Year of Reading, this summer, we're running a Shared Reading Challenge for parents and children aged 5–11 - a simple, fun way to build a reading habit together.
The challenge: Read together for around 15 minutes a day, as many days as you can across the holidays. It doesn't matter if that's 5 days or 40 days. It all counts! It's a challenge for everyone, whether sharing books is something you do routinely or rarely and whether your child is a confident, independent reader or more reluctant.
Why take part?
✅ Help your child enjoy reading, whatever their level
✅ Relaxed one-on-one time together
✅ Build a manageable, lasting habit
How it works:
1️⃣ Sign up below and we'll send you a printable reading tracker
2️⃣ Read together for 15+ minutes a day. Books, comics, magazines, graphic novels, whatever your child enjoys. They can read to you, you read to them, or take turns. There's no wrong way!
3️⃣ Tick off your tracker as you go. No pressure to do every day.
4️⃣ Fill in our short "finishers" form at the end for a printable certificate and entry into a prize draw for a £50 shopping voucher
👉 Sign up here: https://research.ncl.ac.uk/summersharingchallenge/
