If you work with Forces children and families in a pre-school, school, club, HIVE or welfare setting, you can offer free Reading Force scrapbooks to children and families so they can take part in Reading Force.
Whilst Reading Force is primarily for families to enjoy at home, your setting or club can incorporate it into existing pastoral care and encourage families to take part.
Schools find offering Reading Force leads to stronger home-school links and pupils value the acknowledgement of their Forces life. School clubs report children love receiving their free books and chatting about their Reading Force activity with friends. HIVEs and welfare workers add Reading Force scrapbooks to pre-deployment packs and give them to families on family days and keep stock in the office for families.
Author visit in schools and settings
Holding an author visit in school is a great way to launch and promote Reading Force to children and families and get them enthused about shared reading. Many schools use their Service Pupil Premium toward hosting an event with Reading Force supplying books and scrapbooks. Get in touch if you would like us to help you organise an author event.
Reading Force in Action – How organisations take part
Bristol Abbeywood Tri-Service HIVE
Bristol Abbeywood Tri-Service HIVE works with families across eight [...]
Military Kids Club, Le Cateau Primary School, Catterick
Le Cateau Primary School launched Reading Force with a [...]
Risedale Sports & Community College, Catterick
Risedale Sports & Community College in Hipswell, Catterick Garrison [...]
Royal Navy Royal Marines Welfare
Jo Gower, RNRMW National Information and Communications Coordinator, based [...]
Mission Training & Mobilisation Centre
The MTMC(I) at Chetwynd Barracks, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire, prepares all [...]
The Royal Caledonian Education Trust, Scotland
The Royal Caledonian Education Trust (RCET) is Scotland’s Armed [...]
John Logie Baird Primary School, Helensburgh
John Logie Baird School in Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute, [...]
Solent Infant School, Portsmouth
At Solent there are a range of Forces children [...]
Carterton Primary School, Oxfordshire
Tess Brooker, Service Families Support Worker at Carterton Primary [...]
Military Kids Club, Parc Eglos Primary School
Tricia Monks, TA and MKC Co-ordinator at Parc Eglos [...]
Sandringham School, Camberley
Adelle, ELSA and teaching assistant at Sandringham School, set [...]
Plymstock School, Plymouth, HMS Heroes Group
The fantastic children from Plymstock School HMS Heroes group [...]
“The type of support and activities Reading Force provide have proved invaluable to communities…
…particularly during periods of deployment, a really hard time for some made all the better by Reading Force support. The work with schools and other community groups extends further the excellent work which HIVE is very pleased to support and will continue to promote Reading Force to our communities to share the benefits.”
Nikki Peterson, Head, Army HIVE (part of the Army Welfare Service)