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Team on 21 July 2005
Checkprint Lends Helping Hand With
School Reading
Children at a Hinckley primary school are being given a helping hand - and a listening ear - with their reading thanks to a team of volunteers from local company Checkprint.
Children at a Hinckley primary school are being given a helping hand - and a listening ear - with their reading thanks to a team of volunteers from local company Checkprint Checkprint, which employs 60 people, is providing eight volunteers who will be listening to 32 children read at Battling Brook Primary School, through the Right To Read campaign
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 26 Apr 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The company's managing director, Martin Ruda, explained: "Checkprint has a national reputation as a growing and innovative security printing company but we would not be as successful as we are without the dedication of our workforce, many of whom live locally and the support of a range of local suppliers.
By getting involved in the Right To Read programme we feel we are putting back something in to the community and there is clearly a link between the printed word and our business.
Reading is a vital skill for children and by working in partnership with the Right To Read project we hope the staff who have volunteered to help will be able to encourage young pupils as they learn to read and enjoy books." He continued: "Our new volunteers have now undertaken their training and are looking forward to getting to know the children at Battling Brook and providing them with some extra support with their reading." Carol Wright, one of the Checkprint staff taking part, said: "My own children are growing up and no longer want me to listen to them read so I am really looking forward to working with the younger children at the school and helping them with their reading.
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I think it will be rewarding." Wright and the other newly trained volunteers will spend an hour a week listening to the same four children read for 15 minutes each.
Checkprint has been supporting the Right To Read programme at Battling Brook for three years.
The school's headteacher, John Talbot, said: "The Right To Read scheme has been fantastic at Battling Brook.
We have seen pupils become more motivated as well as improvements in reading.
I know that the children look forward to their sessions and often a very positive bond is built up between the child and volunteer.
Battling Brook was recently identified as the 'most improved primary school in Leicestershire' and I am sure that the efforts of the Checkprint volunteers have contributed to our improvements." The Right To Read scheme, which is part of a national campaign to promote literacy, is managed by The Leicestershire Education Business Company and is part of the Leicestershire Cares programme.
A Government report has shown that one hour's reading help per week over a 12-week period can improve a child's reading age by up to six months.
Since its launch three years ago, more than 2,500 volunteers from business and the public sector have offered their time to children in 120 primary schools in the city and across the county.
Susan Root, the project co-ordinator at Right To Read, said: "Working with children individually gives volunteers the opportunity of building special relationships with their reading partners.
Many of the children taking part rarely get the opportunity to spend time reading on their own with adults and it is this special relationship which makes taking part in this scheme so rewarding for volunteer and child alike." Once a group of volunteers has been recruited from businesses interested in supporting the scheme, a two-hour training session is arranged - usually in the workplace.
All volunteers have to be police checked.
New companies interested in joining the right to read initiative, can contact Susan Root by telephone on 0116 240 7000 for more information.
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