Deansrath CC and St. Kevin’s CC – Everyone A Reader Project
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Congratulations to Deansrath CC and St.Kevin’s CC who have launched the ‘Everyone A Reader’ project sponsored by a local engineering company and supported by Children’s Books Ireland.
The project aims to build a love of reading among students, staff and the wider community. Each school will receive 400 new books for each year of the project. Of these, two hundred will be chosen by the expert Children’s Books Ireland team, selected to capture the students’ interest and attention and reflect Irish society’s richness and diversity. A further one hundred titles will be chosen by the students and teachers in each school, further building a sense of ownership over their new library.
Every year for the three years, the schools will also receive class sets of books, which make up the final one hundred books and which will facilitate the set-up of book clubs for TY students. A Champion of Reading – a well-known Irish author or illustrator – will work with the school over three years to encourage creativity and engagement with the library.
Staff will be trained in maximising the use of their new library, while school-wide surveys will measure the project’s long-term impact.
Yvonne Crowley, a teacher at Deansrath Community School, said: ‘The Everyone a Reader project is a massive opportunity for our school to develop and foster a love of reading and encourage reading for enjoyment in our students. ‘The excitement in the faces of the students as they browsed all the books is one that I have never seen before and gave them a new way to experience modern titles and books that they could relate to. We are so grateful to have this programme running in our school to enhance our students’ love of reading.’
