Inspire pupils with reading

Our guest blogger, Vashti Hardy, will be featured in this year's Literacy Conference as one of our keynote speakers.

She is a writer of children's books with a special interest in children’s writing, especially free-writing and the use of journals and creating fantasy worlds; Author of award-winning book, Brightstorm, at the West Sussex Children Story Book Award 2019; and shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2019.

Read Vashti's account of how reading in school inspired her life and the key events that happened during her schooling which directly impacted the path Vashti would end up taking in my life, both with teaching and as a writer....