The Quay Book Club completes the Schoolreaders Book Club Challenge!

The Quay Book Club in Lymington have just completed the Schoolreaders' quiz.
It was fun!

The questions were unusual and had us thinking.

Everyone was did well on 'Famous First Words',

we were a little flummoxed when it came to 'Children's Books',

but questions on 'Bookselling and Reading' were interesting. 

The quiz made for a fulfilling evening and we were all very glad to support such a good cause.

To find out more about the Book Club Challenge please click here.

​Schoolreaders is an organisation that aims to help children improve their literacy by providing volunteers to listen to children read in schools with the support of organisations including WI, U3A, Inner Wheel and Age UK.

​What do we do?
We match reading volunteers with local primary schools to listen to children read in schools on a 1-1 basis. 
This is a free service for both the school and volunteer.

Where are we?
We launched in Bedfordshire in 2013 and are open to applications throughout the UK.

For Schools
Over 500 schools have joined the scheme. If you are a state school and would like to join the scheme then please click here. 

For Volunteers
Over 1,200 volunteers have joined the scheme. If you have a little free time to give on a regular basis and would be interested in joining the scheme, then please click here.

Do you have a Book Club?

The UK charity Schoolreaders is challenging members of Book Clubs to take part in a quiz anytime between 1st March and 24th May 2018

Did you know that in 2017 one in four children aged 11 failed to reach the government’s required reading standards?

​This can have lifelong consequences.

Schoolreaders helps to address this problem by finding volunteers to read one-to-one with children in primary schools, at no cost to the school. It costs Schoolreaders an average of just £15 to provide reading support to one child for a whole academic year.

By taking part in the Book Club Quiz Challenge you will be helping Schoolreaders to reach many more children this year.

My own Book Club is taking part.

You can read about how the quiz works here.

I sent off to the information pack, which can be requested here

If you have any questions, email office@schoolreaders.org, or telephone 01234 924222

The pack includes some wonderful bookmarks and postcards.

If you are interested, let them know on Facebook here

One of our Book Club members immediately volunteered to become a school readers, helping children learn to read in a local school of her choice.

You can see how our book club got on with the quiz here.