Books for Schools with Bookshop on the Hill

13/09/2021

03/06/2021

👀 I am looking for people to run community fundraisers for early years settings 👀

🦕 Do you have a background in nursery work and early years education?

🧚‍♀️ Did you know you can work directly with nurseries to run fundraising activities to get free books for the setting?

🐅 I'm looking for people to run community events for nurseries, helping them with their OFSTED EYFS targets to improve reading and encourage reading for pleasure.

🦄 If you already have links to nurseries, have children or friends with pre-school age children, or contacts who work in these settings - we need you!

🦓 It is our mission to get £20,000 worth of free books into nurseries in the UK this year, we are well on the way but we are limited by the number of organisers to meet demand!

🦒 In exchange for your time, you will earn 20% commission on all the books that go into the setting, that the nursery gets for FREE.

🐒 When you sign up as an organiser for a one off cost of £48 you'll get an amazing kit with all you need to get started, £150 worth of books and stationary, a website and training programme to get you confident to go and find nurseries and run events for them.

🐷 If you are interested in finding out more, please send me a message!

17/04/2021

12/04/2021

Learning to read using phonics is quite straightforward for most children, which is why it has become such a popular method in schools.

12/04/2021

Another incredible offer from Usborne, five amazing subject books for only £19.95! They're normally £9.99 each!
https://usborne.com/gb/100-things-to-know-collection-9781474999052?organiserCode=1a14e4bf3d8e631120b1cf9027879098

12/04/2021

Some fab books have just come back in stock in case you are devising on your school wish list 👇

18/03/2021

Brand new boxed set! Suitable for 8-10 year olds and half price! Tackling the big subjects of philosophy, politics, money, economics and business in a wonderfully accessible way.
Only £25!

03/03/2021

A big stack of books and a school pack is on its way to Aerodrome Primary Academy today, they are getting a virtual visit from Serena Patel, Children’s Author for each of their year groups next week!

I love supporting schools to inspire a love of reading, if you'd like to arrange something similar for your child's school or nursery get in touch!

02/03/2021

Today's activity is a detective challenge from Serena Patel, author of Anisha the Accidental Detective!
Watch the video below to join in ⭐
https://youtu.be/QVwckiFs3Ek
Listen to the first chapter: https://youtu.be/-bvCRuDKBTM
Download the decective activity:https://usborne.com/media/usborne_pdfs/UsBAH/AnishaAccidentalDetective-SerenaPatel_ACTIVITY.pdf

01/03/2021

Here is our very first World Book Day challenge from the amazing author Matt Brown

Follow this link to download the activity!

https://usborne.com/media/usborne_pdfs/UsBAH/MutantZombies-MattBrown_ACTIVITY.pdf

Take part in our World Book Day comedy writing challenge with author Matt Brown.Download the accompanying activity sheet here: MutantZombies-MattBrown_ACTIVI...

28/02/2021

Join our home sponsored reading challenge! You can sign up any time, and download the files you need - just join this group! 👇👇👇

https://www.facebook.com/groups/homereadingchallenge/

26/02/2021

All about the free reading challenge you can sign up for, read (or listen to) as many books as you can in a week and get sponsored to buy more books!

27/01/2021

Registration is still open for World Book Day 2021! Register your school or nursery by 20th November to make sure you get your FREE £1 book tokens, posters & information packs ready for on the 4th March worldbookday.com/registernow/

26/01/2021

⭐️Message to teachers - here to support you with World Book Day

I am mindful that teachers and support staff are under immense pressure at the moment, and that being said I don't wish to add to it.

However there are a number of ways I can help schools and nurseries with tailored virtual events that can meet their curriculum needs, encourage reading for pleasure and get new books - without touching the budget. I can:

✏️ Organise a (free of charge) World Book Day event with reading and literacy at the heart of it
✏️ Book in a virtual visit from an Usborne author who can run a lesson for you! (bookings cost from £30-£100 or we can fundraise for it - ask me about options)
✏️ Take care of the admin so you can enjoy a day celebrating reading with your pupils
✏️ Provide expert advice and recommendations to help every pupil find a book that they really love
✏️ Fundraise and refresh your bookshelves or library with lots of free new Usborne books

Meet the Author - virtual lessons!

I attended a Zoom with three Usborne authors last week and it was incredibly exciting, with activities ranging from creative writing, illustration and question and answer sessions, to exploring topics such as families and relationships. I would love to bring this opportunity to as many schools as possible to support them with the challenge of online learning this year.

In a 15 minute call, I can establish your priorities and come up with a step-by-step plan.
Simply let me know a time that works for you and I’ll share with you all the ways I can make World Book Day 2021 the best one yet for you and your school.

02/01/2021

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Calling all teachers, TA’s, friends of teachers, friends with children in schools or contacts with schools.

It’s that time of year again where we celebrate literacy for world book day/week 😁🥰📖

Do you want to spark your pupils' imaginations this World Book Day?

Has your school made plans for this year?

Let us help you to create an event that your pupils will be talking about for months to come! From book fairs to reading competitions to author events, we can plan and deliver an event that is tailor-made to the needs of your school and pupils.

Leave the hassle behind this World Book Day and let someone else do the hard work - completely free of charge!
Refresh libraries or classrooms with exciting new titles and enthuse pupils with a love of reading for pleasure, all without touching a budget.

I will be offering £25 in free books to everyone who books an event through me personally after seeing this post 😁 to enjoy either by your own family or your class once your school’s event has ended as a thank you from me 😁♥️📖

For your chance to win one of these amazing prizes, simply book an event for World Book Day with me 😍
Comment below or pop me a message if you would like a information pack posting out or emailing over x

30/12/2020

Do you know a teacher / Nursery Manager / Brownie or guide Leader? Please tag them in this post as I would love to give them this amazing opportunity!

With National Storytelling week from the 30th January and so many schools having reading as a focus of support for the children and on their school development plans, I’m on a mission to support as many schools/ nurseries / brownies and guides as possible to get as many free books, encourage reading at home and to support every child’s overall reading development. This also ensures that the school doesn’t have to touch their budgets at all to buy books! It really is amazing!

This is done by running a fun event called a Ready Steady read and listen (sponsored read event) where Usborne books give up to 60% of free books to the setting/school on top of the money raised! Absolutely every penny raised goes on books plus up to 60 percent of free books! It really is amazing! You can get so many free books and stock up your books for the year without touching your budgets at all.

It’s really easy to run as I will send you everything you need via email to make your event a success and fun for all of the children to take part and encourage reading!

How amazing is this opportunity! Remember it costs your setting nothing to run!

There are over 3500 amazing Usborne books to choose from that cover all areas of the EYFS and the School curriculum.

Below are just some of the free books that schools and nurseries have been able to get! Amazing! 🙌

Due to high demand if you would like any further Information please email me on [email protected] or message me direct.

13/11/2020

This year I am raising funds to sponsor books for children, older people and vulnerable adults as a Christmas day gift from the community.

Please give what you can, if you can, by November 30th so that we can order and distribute the books in time for Christmas.

I'd appreciate it if you could like and share the post 🥰

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/caterhambooks

Weʼre raising money to buy books for children and vulnerable adults in Caterham this Christmas.. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

02/11/2020

Good afternoon everyone,

With Nursery Rhyme week on the 16th November and schools still working hard to keep the children’s time at school fun and education in a strange world, I have a great fun opportunity that will support all of this!

I’m on a mission to support as many schools as possible to get as many free books for their school or nursery, encourage reading at home and to support every child’s overall reading development.

This also ensures that the school doesn’t have to touch their budgets at all to buy books! It really is amazing!

This is done by running a fun event called a Ready Steady read and listen (sponsored read event) where Usborne books give up to 60% of free books to the setting/ School on top of the money raised! Absolutely every penny raised goes on books plus up to 60 percent of free books! It really is amazing! You can get so many free books and stock up your books for the year without touching your budgets at all.

It’s really easy to run as I will send you everything you need via email to make your event a success and fun for all of the children to take part and encourage reading!

There are over 3500 books to choose from covering all aspects of the curriculum and covering birth to young adults. These cover a range a mathematical concepts and a range devised for early years and the EYFS.

How amazing is this opportunity! Remember it costs your setting nothing to run!!! It’s win win and super exciting!!!!

Below are just some of the free books that schools and nurseries have been able to get! Amazing! 🙌

Please message me direct via messenger or email [email protected] for further information due to high demand.

Many thanks
Emma

25/10/2020

A free fairy-tale resource pack for KS2 & KS3

20/09/2020

This phonics app is available for Free until September 22nd!

*FREE APP* To help you get back into the swing of things, we've made Teach Your Monster to Read free to download!

We know it's been a very challenging year and we hope to help out a little by giving you the entire series of award-winning literacy games for nothing. Once downloaded, there's nothing else to pay.

Oh, and if you want to play across a few devices, make sure you sign up for a free account at teachyourmonstertoread.com first.

Offer ends on Tuesday September 22nd, so download your Teach Your Monster to Read app today.

Shout this from the rooftops so we can help your friends' kids learn to read too.

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19/09/2020

Look at this massive order of £1600 worth of books for a school! They got it all for free! We raised £1000 running a sponsored read for all the children and Usborne donated another £600 on top as part of their schools mission!

I can run fundraising events and provide these discounts for schools and nurseries. Get in touch if you know a school or teacher who might be interested. Schools are starting to look for extra books now that classes are in bubbles and this can put quite a dent in the budget.

15/09/2020

🤔 Does your charity, organisation or group need books?

📚 Educational resources are so needed right now, and books aren't cheap. It's hard to access them from libraries and we're finding groups need more books than usual so there's enough to go around in each bubble.

💡 Let me run a community book pledge for you!

😍 I am passionate about getting more books into young people's hands and this is one of my favourite ways to do it! So let me get you those books for FREE!

🤓 I can set up a pledge for any community to raise funds and purchase books with discounts available, and more free books on top once fundraising targets are met! I'll provide all the resources needed and even deliver your amazing new books.

🤯 You could create a brand new library, or provide a book to every child you work with for Christmas.

👇 Message me for a no obligation discussion about an event that could work for you.

15/09/2020

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02/09/2020

Ready, Steady... READ 📚

I can offer schools the choice to do sponsored reads (or listens for nursery). They can read anything - internet articles, magazines, their own books! And they just gather sponsors and take note of how much time they spend reading 📖

I can do this without any direct contact as I can email or send all the details and documents. If you get £600 or more of sponsors to spend on books you get another 60% free book credit on top. The school has free choice of books from the Usborne catalogue and they would be delivered direct to the school so again, no contact.

So who’s school, nursery or playgroup needs new books? 🙋🏻‍♀️

28/08/2020

Our USBAH Organisers do lots of incredible work with schools that makes a real difference to students. Organiser Clare Johnson ran an event focused on reading for pleasure and mental wellness that had a real positive impact on her local secondary school: https://bit.ly/3gJEwDT

28/08/2020

Our School of the Term award celebrates the amazing ways that schools and Usborne Organisers work together to promote literacy and a love of reading. Our final SOTT for the year was Christ Church CofE Primary who wowed us with their incredible fundraising: https://bit.ly/3j55bMb

22/08/2020

Testimonials about our events!

22/08/2020

Support every level of your pupils' education with Usborne's award-winning service to schools.

Usborne books are trusted by teachers and education professionals everywhere for their impeccable quality, and are guaranteed to engage, educate and entertain children of all ages. In 2020, Usborne was awarded the IPG Children's Publisher of the Year awards.

Whether you're looking to hold a book fair, want to have a sponsored reading event, or are looking to have book stalls at events such as parents' evenings or summer fêtes, I can provide your school with generous offers, exclusive discounts and free books.

I take care of everything, tailoring the whole event to suit your school timetable, curriculum and, of course, your pupils. I will:

- Advertise, organise, attend and supervise the entire event.
- Do all the paperwork and take and arrange orders, so that teachers don’t lose any valuable teaching time.
- Offer children and parents a wealth of advice and information on choosing the right book.
- Bag and deliver each order direct to the classroom or library for free (within seven working days).