School Reading Ambassador
Create a structured school-wide reading leadership model with student and adult ambassadors.
What you develop
school leadership peer encouragement event support book promotion reading culture
This pathway combines reading activity with communication, service and leadership at an appropriate level for pupils, teachers and school communities.
Recognition
Ambassadors can collect digital badges, mission completions and Reading Passport evidence. Recognition reflects participation and completion; it is not represented as a regulated professional qualification.
Five core missions
Welcome new readers
Complete this mission, record evidence and reflect on what you learned.
Promote school reading challenges
Complete this mission, record evidence and reflect on what you learned.
Support World Book Day
Complete this mission, record evidence and reflect on what you learned.
Run supervised book recommendations
Complete this mission, record evidence and reflect on what you learned.
Help celebrate reading milestones
Complete this mission, record evidence and reflect on what you learned.
Progression
Build consistent reading participation.
Help others discover books and literacy activities.
Support supervised reading conversations and events.
Complete a larger approved reading-leadership project.
Connected to the wider RCI ecosystem.
Ambassadors can link missions to Reading Passport progress, the Literacy App, reading-leadership courses, book clubs, World Book Day and approved school/community activities.