Picture Book Club

Book Clubs in Schools now have a new programme for primary schools – Picture Book Club (PBC).

Picture Book Club is designed to provide a peer led book club format that will work in primary schools. The Picture Book Club involves Y5s leading small book clubs for Y1s.  Schools are provided with a box of 15 picture books, carefully selected to give a diverse range of authors and styles.  There are simple training session planned for teachers to deliver to the older children selected to lead the book clubs. 

PBC aims to increase the confidence of Y5s as readers, inspire younger pupils to read and discuss books, and to reinforce a reading for pleasure culture throughout the school.

This project is currently running in 30 primary schools. 

“I enjoy how we get to bond a lot more with the younger children and encourage them to read and it encourages me as well to read a lot more” Pupil at Merton Abbey Primary