Capita Children's Services, is urging primary schools to support Leonard Cheshire Disability in its upcoming Readability scheme. Capita, which supplies 21,000 schools with its SIMS management information system technology, is backing the charity in its efforts to create awareness of disability, promote reading in young children and raise funds.
Maurice O'Connor, the Leonard Cheshire Disability readability coordinator said: "The aim of Readability is to encourage primary school pupils to read for pleasure and for purpose, whilst at the same time create a greater awareness of disability and disability issues. Children will undertake reading activities in return for pledges of money from family and friends. Any money that is raised will be split equally between the charity and the participating school."
Capita will support the charity through publicising the scheme during their regular contact with schools. Information about Readability will be sent out in Capita's newsletters, magazines and emails. Capita has also helped the charity develop the website that will be used to support the programme.
Maurice O'Connor continued: "We are delighted to have the support of Capita in this project and hope that their existing relationships with schools will allow us to reach a lot more children.
"To coincide with the International Year of Astronomy, this year's Readability theme is Space and Other Worlds, which should get pupils really fired up about reading for fun. There are many space related activities and book titles for pupils to enjoy, as well as other exciting literacy based activities that can be completed at home or at school, including word puzzles, drawing, fact finding using encyclopaedias and much more."
As an additional incentive for schools to sign up for the scheme, the first 300 schools that register will be entered for a free prize draw. The winning school will receive a set of electronic voting devices from Promethean which will allow pupils to respond to questions using a hand-held device.
Phil Neal, managing director of SIMS, at Capita Children's Services says: "We are delighted to be able to support Leonard Cheshire Disability. We believe that our relationships with primary schools can enable many more children to get involved in the scheme so they can realise how much fun reading can be, whilst at the same time, raising funds for their school and the important work of this charity."
Leonard Cheshire Disability supports over 21,000 disabled people and runs 80 care homes in the UK. The charity is active in 52 countries around the world, where it supports mostly young disabled people and helps them live independent lives, where possible.
Anthony Browne, the children's laureate said: "Readability is such a wonderful initiative, encouraging children to read, draw and think creatively. All children can do these things naturally but most of us lose them as we get older. I'm hoping that Readability will help to instill these abilities into every child - for life!"
Ref: CAP491
Capita contact:
Graham Cooper, Head of Marketing, Capita Children's Services, Franklin Court, Priory Business Park, Cardington, Bedford, MK44 3JZ. Tel: 01234 838 080
Leonard Cheshire Contact:
Maurice O'Connor, Readability Coordinator, Leonard Cheshire Disability, Manor Farm, Warkworth, Oxfordshire OX17 2AG. Tel: 01295-713250
Press contact:
Catherine Lane, Catherine Lane PR, Floor, 145-157 St John Street, London, EC1V 4PY. Tel: 07092 864 764. Mobile: 07813 978 133
About Capita Children's Services:
Capita Children's Services is the leading supplier of information systems to the education sector, providing a range of software and services to schools and local authorities to help raise standards and reduce administration. Capita's SIMS is the most popular management information system for schools and is used every day by more than 21,000 educational establishments in the UK.
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