Reading for Pleasure School Improvement Consultancy (Online)
Expert Guidance to Improve Reading for Pleasure Engagement in Your School
Is Reading for Pleasure on your school’s improvement plan? Use our online consultancy service to boost your reading for pleasure offering!
Designed for Headteachers, SLT and English Leads, this 1:1 remote consultation service gives you a tailored, actionable plan to raise reading engagement across your school.
Booking this service gives your school a focused, 60-minute online strategy session with BooksForTopics founder Alison Leach. After taking time to examine your school’s unique priorities and needs, you’ll come away with a clear, practical Reading for Pleasure improvement plan document built around your school’s exact requirements.
Your Consultation Package Covers:
- Pre-Session Review: Initial analysis of your school’s current provision.
- 60-Minute RfP Strategy Session: A one-hour online leadership session with BooksForTopics founder Alison Leach.
- Improvement Plan Document: A tailored Reading for Pleasure action plan created together with you for your school to raise reading engagement.
Bespoke Strategy. Lasting Reading Culture.
Working directly with BooksForTopics founder Alison Leach, give your school leadership focused time to evaluate provision, map out actionable priorities and walk away with a clear Reading for Pleasure roadmap ready for immediate staff implementation.
- Ideas and Direction: Together we will establish focused, manageable Reading for Pleasure priorities.
- Increased Engagement: Implement proven strategies designed to motivate reluctant readers and raise reading engagement across year groups.
- Whole-School Consistency: Map out how to align staff around a shared vision and practical reading culture that endures beyond a single term.
- Concrete Action Plan: Walk away with a bespoke, practical improvement plan your team can put into practice immediately.
- Optional Follow-Up: Add on a review session to evaluate progress and develop good practice over time.
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Targeted Guidance. Expert Input.
The Reading for Pleasure School Consultancy is a remote online service that provides context-specific expert guidance into your school development plan.
This service is for school leadership teams who:
- Would like to focus on Reading for Pleasure as part of their School Development Plan.
- Want expert help creating a documented plan with achievable steps and measurable impact across the school.
- Are looking to motivate disengaged readers and build a consistent, sustainable reading culture.
- Have an English Lead, SLT team or Headteacher seeking structured advice and expert-backed direction to lead Reading for Pleasure with confidence.
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BooksForTopics Founder and Director.
Alison Leach is an experienced primary teacher, English leader, literacy consultant and Reading for Pleasure course leader.
As the founder of BooksForTopics, the go-to school booklisting website for primary schools across the UK, Alison draws on a decade of leadership in the primary book curation and school literacy space to provide practical, high-impact guidance tailored to individual school contexts. She also won a University of Cambridge Faculty of Education award for research in Children’s Literature, bringing both academic expertise and practical insight to her work with schools.
Alison will work with your school leadership to offer tailored expertise and produce a Reading for Pleasure plan for actionable impact.
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FAQs: Reading for Pleasure School Improvement Consultancy
This is a remote, focused strategy package designed for primary schools looking to evaluate and strengthen their reading culture via a realistic and impactful action plan.
Schools will work directly with BooksForTopics founder Alison Leach.
The consultancy package includes a pre-session review of your school's priorities, a 60-minute Zoom consultation with Alison and a bespoke written roadmap document for staff implementation.
To start the booking process, simply submit a short enquiry form.
We will shortly reply with available consultation dates and a brief pre-session questionnaire so we can tailor the session to your school’s exact needs.
Upon receiving your enquiry, we will provide a set of options of times and dates so that you can choose one that works for your timetable.
The Zoom call with Alison Leach can be 1:1 with a Headteacher, English lead or SLT members responsible for school improvement. Alternatively, you may choose up to four members of staff to join the call together. This session is not designed as a whole school staff meeting, but may be arranged for use in your SLT meeting time.
Once we agree on a consultation date, we will issue an invoice (£395 + VAT) directly to your school or finance department. Payment can be arranged via credit card or BACS.
The content of the action plan will be created together during our online session and based on your school context, key priorities and Alison's input.
Your finished bespoke Reading for Pleasure roadmap document will be delivered directly to your inbox within 5 working days of our Zoom session, ready for immediate staff implementation.
Yes. While the initial consultation and roadmap give you a complete implementation plan, an optional follow-up review session can be booked later in the year to evaluate progress, adapt strategies and further develop practice as your reading culture embeds.
The aim of the package is to elevate Reading for Pleasure from a vague aspiration into a structured, whole-school driver for pupil progress and wellbeing. Rather than relying on ad-hoc initiatives that fade over time or become inconsistent between classes, the package is designed to equip you with an expert-backed framework adapted for your school context.
A written roadmap with clearly identified priorities helps to focus efforts and keep accountability under review to ensure impact. Having a clear plan in place will help to unify your staff, find ways to make reading visible across the school, re-engage reluctant readers and embed a thriving reading culture across every year group.
Ready to give Reading for Pleasure a clearer direction across your school?
Have a specific question before booking or looking to arrange support for multiple schools across a MAT? Drop us a quick message at info@booksfortopics.com and we’ll be happy to help.
