ESA Reads REMARKABLE progress

We are delighted to announce that our ESA Reads programme is seeing some superb results and high levels of engagement. We have post 16 reading mentors supporting lower level readers, we have whole school participation in ESA Big Reads taking place in tutor times and our Reading Plus students have been seeing big (and I mean BIG) developments in comprehension accuracy and decoding speed. In some cases we have seen early readers becoming high level readers in only a matter of months.

Why are we so chuffed about this you might ask… well we are a creative academy and creativity starts with inspiration - it starts with STORY. Reading is the base skill - foundational to all ideas, such as scripts and treatments and research. We have no greater mission than to switch on our young creatives to reading so that they can develop interpretation skills and become the creative inspirers of the future.

If you want to know more about ESA Reads and our Reading Plus programme, CLICK HERE.