♦ Tutor training and
course start dates
♦ Coming soon...
♦ Who cares?
♦ All aboard
♦ Congratulations
♦ New team members
♦ Looking ahead
♦ Volunteer
♦ 10,000 target

To book go to www.readingquest.org.uk

or call
01865 403207

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You can give to Reading Quest via our website
www.readingquest.org.uk
/giving.html

Reading Quest is grateful to all our friends and supporters. Particular thanks go to:

The Dragon School Sale,
The Doris Field Charitable Trust
The Mercers’ Company
The Thomas Dawson Charitable Trust
and many generous individuals

One in every five boys and one in every ten girls leaving primary school is unable to function at secondary level due to their poor reading skills. The charity Reading Quest was set up to give every child an equal chance, through reading, to think, write and enjoy learning. We do this via training and giving tutorials.

A team of trained core tutors is active in Oxford. Please call us to discuss how our teams can work in your school 01865 403207.

Tutor training and course start dates

New training will take place in Manchester, London, Bristol and Oxford.

The course involves a complete grounding in the Reading Quest method and is ideal for teachers, teaching assistants, sponsored volunteers, special needs coordinators, literacy coordinators and Key Stage 1 and 2 leaders.

Coming soon...

Penny Tyack, founder of Reading Quest, is due to have a book published in 2010. It’s about children learning to read.

"One in every five children finds it almost impossible to learn to read without careful specialised help. Reading Quest can give this help. So can teachers and parents.

The book will explore the different ways that different children learn. It will consist of stories of ten of the children I have taught, and learned from.

Why did Danny despair? When will William capture the Gorgosaurus? How did Russell ‘just clue it’ What was Katy’s Thinking Hat?

I hope that it will be a fascinating, funny and sometimes poignant read that will help people to look at young learners in a new light."

Who cares?

We do. Life can be really hard if you can’t read: passing exams, finding a job or having enough money to get by. This affects us all.

Illiteracy is costing business and the UK taxpayer £10 billion a year.

One in 5 adults in Britain is ‘functionally illiterate’, finding it hard to gain employment or cope in society.

The UK ranks 20th out of 23 in a league table of child poverty in wealthier countries (UNICEF).

Since developing the method in Oxford thirteen years ago, Reading Quest has helped 3,500 children in 96 schools.

Reading Quest in action
The Reading Quest method is informed by a tried-and-tested model known as Reading Recovery.

We are celebrating much that is new: website, office space, logo, team members and new structure. Our new strapline, ‘Read and Succeed’, describes how literacy is pivotal to success.

All aboard

Reading Quest is seeking a new Chairperson to lead the organisation through a stage of ambitious expansion. See the website for more details — www.readingquest.org.uk

Congratulations
Congratulations to our colleague Enaty Readman on the birth of her second son, Zachy.

New team members
Reading Quest welcomes two new members of the team.

A warm welcome
We’re pleased to be in The Old Music Hall, a wonderfully versatile space shared by charities and social enterprises. Thanks to all those who helped us to ‘warm’ the office in May.

Looking ahead
On 29 October, thanks to Baroness Susan Greenfield, CBE, a discussion forum will be held at the House of Lords. Call 01865 403207 for more details.

Volunteer
You don’t need to be a teacher or teaching assistant to get involved. Trainee editors from Pearson Education and Oxford University Press benefit from training as volunteer tutors.

10,000 target

By 2013, with your help, Reading Quest aims to have reached at least 10,000 more children, across 1500 schools.

Please give
Reading Quest relies on gifts and donations. Please consider supporting this vital work. Together we can make a difference.

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