from Four Colman Getty Newsletter
National
charity Beanstalk celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. To mark this
milestone anniversary, we worked with the Beanstalk team to create, design and
publish a Charter for Children’s Literacy, calling
for a raft of interventions to improve reading standards amongst young people.
Currently, one in eight children in the UK leaves primary school unable to read
to the required standards.
The Charter, sponsored by HarperCollins, consists of an introduction on children’s literacy over the past 40 years; a survey of Beanstalk’s reading helpers about the children they support; a range of viewpoints from experts across the literacy sphere; and a series of recommendations – from the reform of the primary curriculum to foster creativity by reducing testing, to government funding to provide a trained reading helper in every primary school in the country.
The Charter, sponsored by HarperCollins, consists of an introduction on children’s literacy over the past 40 years; a survey of Beanstalk’s reading helpers about the children they support; a range of viewpoints from experts across the literacy sphere; and a series of recommendations – from the reform of the primary curriculum to foster creativity by reducing testing, to government funding to provide a trained reading helper in every primary school in the country.
Left to right: Sue Porto, Chief Executive of Beanstalk; Susan Belgrave, Founder of Beanstalk; Jeffrey Barratt, Partner at Norton Rose LLP and Beanstalk Development Board member.
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