Promoting Reading Lead
Holyhead School, Birmingham, West Midlands, B21 0HN2 days remaining to apply
Closing date
24 January 2025 at 12pm (midday)
Date listed
17 January 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- £1,000.00 Annually (Actual)
Promoting Reading Lead job summary
Act as a student advocate for reading, creating opportunities for student input in book selections and literacy activities.
Collaborate with teachers across departments to integrate reading for pleasure into the curriculum.
Lead planning and promotion of events and activities for World Book Day.
Engage parents and guardians in promoting reading at home.
Organise family reading and literacy events or workshops.
Partner with local libraries, bookstores, and community organisations to enhance resources and opportunities.
Plan events like author visits, book fairs, or literacy weeks.
Lead and support peer-mentoring programs, such as older students reading with younger students.
Deliver assemblies to all year groups about key reading events.
Celebrate student achievements in reading through awards, certificates, or recognition badges.
Liaise with publishers, authors, or literary organisations to bring fresh ideas and opportunities.
Keep up-to-date with literacy research and trends.
Promote and support the use of e-books, audiobooks, and reading apps.
Develop and share promotional materials about reading initiatives (World Book Day, Book clubs, newsletters, posters, or social media posts) including via a dedicated Reading section of the school website.
Create displays or bulletin boards highlighting new books, reading milestones, or student recommendations.
Design and oversee reading programs, such as ‘Drop Everything and Read’ (DEAR) sessions or reading challenges.Commitment to safeguarding
Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.
Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.
Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children
You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.
Applying for the job
This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.
CVs are not accepted.
About Holyhead School
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1254 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
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- School website
- Holyhead School website (opens in new tab)
What makes Holyhead special is our commitment to learning without limits. Students enter the school with attainment levels significantly below the national average (ISDR) but go on to achieve whatever they set their minds to. More students than you find at other schools, go on to employment, Higher Education and Apprenticeships. They attend Russell Group Universities and read the most competitive courses you can imagine. They become Engineers, Lawyers, Accountants, Entrepreneurs and Doctors etc, but they also become well-rounded individuals who understand how to keep safe, how to articulate themselves and how to respect diversity, equality and active citizenship.
We invest a lot in developing the strength of their character, making students independent and confident with vision and intellectual curiosity.
The focus on the development of character extends to staff. Whilst we have a strong commitment to staff wellbeing and CPD. We also expect staff to become role models for the school community. Our induction, staff incentive scheme and person specifications place an emphasis on Leadership, Organisation, Resilience, Initiative and Communication.
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