Ashford School pupils are benefitting from an exciting new project at the Prep School, and we’d love for our alumni community to get involved. At Ashford School, we firmly believe in fostering a love of reading in all children, and so the Foundation Trustees are delighted to be supporting a new and exciting project at the Prep School, which has seen the replacement of reading books, specifically for the Pre-Prep Library.
The new books are aligned with the order in which the Prep School teach new sounds in their fantastic Read, Write, Inc. phonics program. This means that beginner readers will be able to recognise and successfully decode the majority of words in their school reading books. We have purchased a mixture of reading schemes and a range of genres such as Traditional Tales and Fact Books, to give the children a wider range of reading material to learn from and enjoy. Many of the books also include activities, either at the front or the back. These encourage the children to think more about the content as a whole, and help to support the parents with home reading.
The transformational impact of producing generations of confident and strong readers, and moreover readers that love reading, is one of the top 3 things we can do as a Prep School. Investing in our students reading has the single biggest impact on their future chances in life.
The old books are will in turn be used to help the wide community, and will be donated to charity or used as part of the Community Outreach First-Steps programme, run at the Prep School.
In the long-term, the Foundation Trustees hope to expand the funding available for this project. This would enable the Prep School students to not only benefit from new reading resources, but also from fantastic environments for reaching. The Prep School would like to create special spaces in which the children can read around the site. This will not be possible without the support of our generous donors.
If you would like to donate to this project, or discuss opportunities to fund one of these new reading spaces, please contact the Alumni & Development Office at development@ashfordschool.co.uk.
