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Love to read with the Premier League: Be one of 1,000 schools and libraries to take part free of charge
6 Jul 2011
Are your pupils more interested in football than reading? The National Literacy Trust is launching the 2011/12 Premier League Reading Stars initiative to turn football fans into reading fans.
Funding from the Premier League and Arts Council England means the charity is offering 1,000 schools, libraries and football clubs the opportunity to take part in this exciting project completely free of charge. The project offers practical resources for teachers to inspire their pupils to read through the motivational power of the ‘beautiful game’.
When teachers register for Premier League Reading Stars, they will receive:
- A Premier League Reading Stars "Tactics Book" which contains 10 lesson plans (developed to support the National Curriculum)
- Premier League branded materials (including high-quality reward badges and activity-packed reading journals) for a class of 32 pupils
- One day’s free training for a member of staff
- Exclusive access to literacy challenges delivered by Premier League heroes in a collection of online video clips
The National Literacy Trust has run the Premier League Reading Stars project since 2003 and it has been proven to have a significant impact on pupils’ reading. In fact, 96% of children who take part say they will read more regularly and recent research shows that enthusiastic readers are five times more likely to be above average readers.
Primary schools, libraries and professional football clubs are all eligible to apply to take part. The deadline for applications is the 30th of September 2011. If you are successful, the National Literacy Trust will invite you to a free training day in the autumn term and reserve a resource pack for you, ready for you to deliver the project in either the spring or summer term 2012.
For settings that are not successful in gaining one of the limited free places, or that would like to run the project with more than one class, the pack will also be available to purchase in the autumn term.
Find out more and apply here.
Read the full media release here.
