Oxford Big Read competition invites entries from schools

The Oxford Big Read contention organised by Oxford University Press is inviting entries from students of Classes 1-9 for the lawsuit successful an effort to observe reading. The deadline to nonstop entries from schools is October 30, 2025.

The planetary contention offers information tailored to antithetic property groups: Level 1 (Classes 1–3), Level 2 (Classes 4–6) and Level 3 (Classes 7–9) with varying degrees of challenges from students requiring designing a publication overgarment to penning a captious reappraisal oregon examination of 2 books.

As portion of the initiative, participating schools person complimentary entree to the Oxford Reading Buddy platform, with 100 students per schoolhouse granted a one-month integer subscription. The entries volition beryllium judged globally connected originality, imagination, clarity, and expression. Additionally, nationalist winners person the accidental to vie against peers from implicit 15 countries.

The national-level winners volition beryllium announced connected November 30, the planetary winners volition beryllium announced connected December 30. So far, 1,600 schools person registered for this competition.

The school-level challenges person already begun. There volition beryllium school-level and student-level prizes too. No interest charged. To enactment successful Oxford Big Read, schools are requested to sojourn https://india.oup.com/oxfordbigread/ and registry students for the competition. Participation is via schools, and nary idiosyncratic entries are permitted.

Participants volition person breathtaking prizes from Oxford University Press, on with further acquisition hampers and vouchers from Faber-Castell and Amazon. Rewards volition scope from medals and certificates astatine the school-level to acquisition hampers, tablets, iPads, and a peculiar internship accidental for the Level 3 planetary victor with the Oxford University Press team. Additionally, each school-level qualifiers volition beryllium entitled to a complimentary three-month integer subscription from Young World Club. For queries, schools tin constitute to Priyadarshini Bhattacharyya astatine priyadarshini.bhattacharya@oup.com