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We offer you here some snippets of literacy related news, some from our own work and some from valid sources nationally and internationally.
LTR wins King's Award for Voluntary Service
Friday 15th November 2024
JH
LTR has been greatly honoured to be given the King's Award for Voluntary Service in yesterdays honours list. This is the equivalent of an MBE for charitable organisations and is a great accolade for all of our volunteers who work so hard throughout the year to help everyone to read, in Ipswich. LTR was one of 5 Suffolk charity organisations to win this award this year.
LTR Delivers for Stronger Practice Hub
Monday 17th June 2024
JH
Our teams, helped by staff from the Highfield Stronger Practice Hub, spent 4 days packing book-bags for over 1,100 children in early years settings across Ipswich. In addition, the…
LTR Wins Major Grant from SCC
Monday 10th June 2024
JH
Suffolk County Council has awarded LTR a substantial grant to extend its literacy improvement work over the next 10 months. As well as developing our existing services for…
Authors including Sir Michael Morpurgo and Malorie Blackman have written an open letter urging the government to invest in early years reading.
Wednesday 17th January 2024
JH
Authors including Sir Michael Morpurgo and Malorie Blackman have written an open letter urging the government to invest in early years reading. A BookTrust survey suggests that only half of children aged between one and two from low-income families are read to daily. The letter notes that some families struggle to access books and support. "It is not right that children from poorer backgrounds are deprived of a life that is rich in reading," it says. Signatories include current laureate Joseph Coelho plus…
LTR Wins Contract with Highfield Stronger Practice Hub
Friday 15th December 2023
JH
LTR has been engaged by one of the Government's leading education teams to develop and share it's best reading practices across the whole of the Eastern Region. The Highfield 'Stronger Practice Hub', based in Ipswich has commissioned LTR to develop it's work with Early Years settings and turn this into guidance for settings across East Anglia. The work will begin at the end of January 2024 and will include our work on Storytimes, mini-libraries for settings and recommendations for books for pupils.
SE Area Committee makes substantial grant to LTR
Thursday 14th September 2023
JH
LTR is very grateful to the SE Area Committee of the Borough Council for giving it a grant of £4,000 to continue its work in the area. At a SEAC meeting on Wednesday 13th September, the committee was very complimentary about LTR's work over the last 7 years and recognised that its focus was entirely aligned with the committee's key priorities. They particularly…