North Lanarkshire Schools Read to Succeed
Following the transition from primary to secondary school, our promise to you is that the North Lanarkshire Secondary School you have trusted with your child’s education, will do all they can to ensure that this experience is both enjoyable and successful.
In North Lanarkshire Schools, under the Scottish Attainment Challenge, we aim to make reading for pleasure a priority in our bid to ensure excellence and equity in our schools. We are fortunate enough to have dedicated school librarians and English Departments across North Lanarkshire Secondary Schools who provide excellent support and encouragement to all pupils to help develop and promote reading for pleasure.
As part of that commitment, the North Lanarkshire Schools Read to Succeed pledge aims to get our S1 pupils hooked on reading for pleasure. With funding from the Scottish Attainment Challenge every S1 pupil will be gifted a book with no cost to the pupil or the school. This book will be chosen from an online catalogue of texts suitable for a wide range of interests and ability levels.
Reading for pleasure has been proven to have a huge range of benefits for children, ranging from improved exam results and literacy levels, through to good mental health. This is our 4th year running Read to Succeed and we want pupils, parents/carers, teachers and librarians to participate in the North Lanarkshire Schools Read to Succeed pledge to help ensure our pupils are reaching their full potential in terms of literacy.
We are asking you as a parent or carer to play an active role in encouraging your child to read for pleasure and ensure that they are actually reading, simply by talking regularly with them about what they are reading.
Advice on how to encourage children to read for pleasure is available from The Scottish Book Trust website: http://www.scottishbooktrust.com/reading/parents.
If you want any further advice on helping your child choose books or how you can motivate them to read, please feel free to get in touch with the librarian by phoning the school. Our librarians are happy to help.
With your support, we can help your child ‘Read to Succeed’ and maximise their potential.
Yours sincerely,
Terry Cowan
Education Support Officer (Literacy)
Scottish Attainment Challenge
