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Better Reading Partnership

Developed by EducationBradford, this rigorous strategy has helped thousands of children achieve exceptional reading age gains. In our Nottinghamshire project, children averaged 14.6 months RA gains in only 10 weeks. Teaching Assistants or Adult Volunteers become partners who teach children (Y2 to Y8) how to use the complete range of reading strategies. BRP is an excellent intervention for Wave 2 of ECAR and supports Reading Recovery.

The Better Reading Partnership scheme is designed for children who have a reading deficit of 6-18 months and are at risk of failing to reach the national average in SATs. Each child receives three intensive 15 minute one-to-one sessions per week for 10 weeks. Boosting confidence is a priority.

At the end of each term, schools taking part in ROWA! BRP training are encouraged to send in end of programme reports for those children who have taken part. Set out below are the graphs which show average reading age gains in each year group, as well as teachers' subjective assessment on progress in other aspects of reading.

Schools need to invest in a supply of children's literature for the project. BRP brings about the greatest gains when it is used as a structured Reading Intervention Programme. However, some schools have neither the space nor time for out of class sessions. In this case, BRP is a cost effective way of increasing the skills of your non-teaching staff in classroom based reading support.

1.5 days training (9.30am to 2.30 pm and 9.30 am to 12.30 pm) - * £125 per person or FREE (up to 6 delegates) if you can host the training at your school.

How this works:

• Host school would need an appropriate space to seat up to 18 adults, including adults sized chairs and tables.
• Host school would be responsible for providing refreshments and lunches.
• If the host school can help ROWA! to find 12 delegates from other schools to attend the training, they will receive up to 6 free places on the course.

The next BRP training course will be at Aldercar Community Language College on Thursday 28th January, Monday 1st February and Monday 8th February (9.30 am to 12.30 pm). The delegate rate is £125* - for booking details contact carla@rowa.org.uk

*Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire schools qualify for a reduced price - please email Carla to find out more.

Could you become a ROWA! Better Reading Partners trainer?

ROWA! likes to work with excellent teachers to deliver its school based services and is currently recruiting teachers for its pool of trainers.  This is a fantastic opportunity for schools and their teachers:

1. the teacher receives full training on how to deliver a ROWA! course
2. the school benefits from gaining the fully trained staff who can then deliver the training within their school
3. ROWA! will pay the full supply costs + travel expenses for that teacher when we require them to deliver the training to other schools in your area on our behalf.

For more information contact:

carla@rowa.org.uk     01629 536446