Book Week Scotland

Book Week Scotland takes place between 17th – 23rd November 2025 – and if you are looking for a WOW day to celebrate this exciting event in your school then read on, as we have a fantastic range of literacy workshops for primary and secondary schools in Scotland.

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Purposeful Writing – With Pirates!

This colourful programme places pupils at the heart of a fictional world when they receive a surprise visit from our friendly pirate, Captain Morgan!

CSI: Bookmark 

When the Book Review Competition entries are mysteriously jumbled, pupils use their knowledge of well-loved stories to piece the tales back together.

Family Literacy

A fun and friendly workshop designed to highlight the joys to be found in books and stories.

Ways into Shakespeare

Experience a range of Shakespeare activities that both link in perfectly with Shakespeare in the curriculum and extend horizons.

Outdoor Poetry

Using school grounds as a resource, we’ll guide pupils to see ordinary things in extraordinary ways – and weave magical tapestries of words.

The Poet-Tree

School Workshops From tiny acorns … great verses grow … Every tree starts as a seed – a…

The Poetry of Shakespeare

This engaging activity puts them centre stage by bringing out both the visible and the invisible.

Messages from Space

School Workshops What do we know about Neptune? What’s the science of Saturn? And what’s our understanding of…

Poetry Live!

Streamed Workshop Poetry Live – Join one of our team for live workshops, beamed straight to the classroom!…

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Collaborative Poetry 

This workshop provides a fantastic way of linking poetry to other areas of the curriculum!

Poetry in Sight

Our poetry writing workshops encourage pupils to play with words and rhythms while working to the restrictions imposed by different poetic forms.

Spotlight on Shakespeare

This workshop takes students right through the play, exploring the backstory, meeting the main characters and bringing key moments to life.

Introducing Shakespeare

A fantastic and very energetic way to engage your students in the playwright, his life and works – and prepare them for their studies to come.

The Play’s The Thing

Our Shakespeare programmes prove popular and successful both nationally and internationally.

CSI: Reading Skills

Specifically designed to support pupils in making connections between different ways of “reading”.

National Poetry Day School Workshops Refuge

Refuge Rhymes – Poetry

Inspiring and Reflective Poetry workshops for both Primary and Secondary Schools exploring the theme of “Refuge”.

Personification Poetry

Students will harvest the fruits of their imaginations and explore notions of empathy to construct uniquely moving poetry.

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Soundscape Poetry

Those pupils who said they don’t like poetry will be writing furiously at the end of this magical workshop.

A Celebration in Rhyme

A celebration in Rhyme has been developed to help celebrate the stories your pupils love in verse.

Big Shakespeare Day

Everyone loves a good story – and as William Shakespeare was the greatest storyteller of them all!