Help for pupils struggling with reading
Children in Hull who struggle at reading are to be given intensive one-to-one tuition as part of a multi-million pound Government scheme.
Read Recovery is an intensive catch-up programme that focuses on the bottom five per cent of pupils at key stage one and will give six-year-olds specialist support from trained teachers.
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Jackie Spowage is leading the Read Recovery scheme
The groundbreaking scheme aims to raise standards for those children who are failing to make the grade in national tests.
Last year, just 74 per cent of pupils in Hull gained the Government benchmark in English when they reached 11-years-old.
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Eleven schools who have the highest number of struggling youngsters have been selected for the new scheme.
Support for each pupil costs more than £2,000 and is part of the Government's Every Child a Reader programme.
Ken Sainty, Hull City Council's head of service for primary schools, said: "Read Recovery targets the six-year-olds who have the most difficulty in reading. Each teacher trained will target eight children to get additional intensive reading support.
"Research over the past 20 years shows that children do catch up to their peers and not only do they catch up but sustain it and by the time they are 11 they are good readers."
In Hull, the grant will be worth about £500,000 over four years, with £100,000 for the first year.
Read Recovery teachers will work with up to eight children every day to enable the "hardest-to-teach" children to become successful readers and writers.
Jackie Spowage is leading the Read Recovery scheme.
She is responsible for training a teacher from each of the schools in a training classroom at Longhill Primary School.
She said: "The success rate of this is brilliant. It is one-to-one intensive and personally tailored to meet the needs of the individual child."
Comments
by KAY, HULL
Wednesday, October 01 2008, 7:28PM
“Why don't we go the whole hog and while teaching pupils to read, we also teach both primary and senior school pupils how to cross a road PROPERLY AND SAFELY! This is not been done by either parents or schools and the pupils are for some reason on a death wish when they leave school so they need educating!”
by R.Judd, Hull
Wednesday, October 01 2008, 6:31AM
“Well rocket science, the saying is the anti fascists are the new fascists and it would seem your in that category.”
by Bob, Hull
Wednesday, October 01 2008, 5:41AM
“Another brilliant idea to spend (or is it waste?) taxpayers cash. These schemes always sound grand, let's chuck money at a problem, yap about it for ages till we're all ground down.. blah blah blah, then the subject never gets discussed or audited to see if it has been implemented effectively.
And what's this "report abuse" drivel that seems to have appeared overnight under each comment? I suppose that's another middle class coded message for "Never mind the swearing, that's OK is anyone criticising or upsetting foreigners". Read into that what you will.”
by KAY, hull
Tuesday, September 30 2008, 9:20PM
“Well our Government's SO origional! A new ground breaking scheme called read recovery wouldn't happen to be a copy of the POOH BEAR reading scheme that were set up in schools and could no longer be funded? What happens when this funding runs out then??????? Like everything full of great ideas but they never actually get carried throughout!”
by Rocket Science, Planet Earth
Tuesday, September 30 2008, 8:05PM
“Sorry for posting off topic in my previous post but history teaches us that we can not ignore such things.
Back on topic this is something that is needed, yes it should be the parent that teach their children to read, but if they don¿t or can¿t then the children need this help as it is not their fault their parent are not doing what they should.”
by Rocket Science, Planet Earth
Tuesday, September 30 2008, 8:00PM
“I would assume that Carl to came to the conclusion that you are a racist R.Judd as you state you are willing to vote for the BNP, if you are not racist then you are clearly miss guided and do not fully understand the nature of that group of fascists.”
by R.Judd, Hull
Tuesday, September 30 2008, 5:39PM
“Carl, I dont think I mentioned race did I? or are you just another leftwing fascist who calls anybody a racist who you disagree with?”
by Lynz, Hull
Tuesday, September 30 2008, 2:53PM
“Peter KSA, HDM regulators working overtime today. He's removed all comments from certain articles, and in the article your referring to, I can't understand why. All comments were constructive. We're obviously not allowed an opinion anymore.”
by Peter, KSA
Tuesday, September 30 2008, 2:07PM
“Danielle my comments page is blocked on certain stories, sorry I can not................”
by Jamie, East Yorkshire
Tuesday, September 30 2008, 12:10PM
“Ha, get all the chavs and chavettes to give their dole cheques to their little Crystal and Chantelle to read - they will soon learn to read!”