To support eligible schools to utilise their Bradford Opportunity Area grants to fund literacy support, we’ve prepared a prospectus of evidence-based support from external providers that schools will find useful in considering their needs. Schools wishing to access the programmes and support contained within the prospectus can benefit from a collaborative approach to ‘bulk buying’ this via Exceed Teaching Schools. We’ve arranged for the programmes to be delivered locally, if sufficient numbers of schools express an interest, reducing the overall cost to schools, reducing travel and enabling the grant to go further.

Schools that aren’t in receipt of the grant can also express an interest in the support, utilising their Pupil Premium Grant or their school budget to purchase the support.

We envisage further updates to the prospectus in the coming weeks. The prospectus can be downloaded from the following webpage but please check back regularly for new updates.

You may be interested in this blog prepared recently by Bryan Harrison, Head Teacher at Miriam Lord Primary School about Power of reading, a programme introduced by our DfE-funded SSIF project: http://ow.ly/ukwB30nwcde  

The prospectus can be downloaded here.