This academic year schools will receive a payment of £80 per child to assist with post lockdown catch-up.
We intend to spend this as follows:
Reading co-ordinator – 1 x TA for 5.5. hours per week –
Aims
- to ensure reading scheme is introduced effectively throughout school
- to co-ordinate volunteers listening to readers in school
- to train volunteers in listening to children read after attending training themselves
- to listen to children read
Cost – £3565
Outcomes
- new reading scheme is implemented throughout school (to be considered at staff meetings)
- volunteers will be in school listening to children read
- children will be listened to read more often (records kept to assess impact)
- progress in reading average or above to be monitored in school tracking
- Introduce NELI into school after training for member of staff
This is subject to school being accepted on the NELI program – further details TBC