Reading Together® at Wymondley Road School

2019

The following 16 June 2019 comments regarding the Reading Together® programme at Wymondley Road School are sourced from Facebook, available here:

READING TOGETHER® WORKSHOPS

This year we are excited to be offering the world renowned highly regarded Reading Together® workshops at Wymondley Road School. Whānau are invited to participate in our relaxed and informal workshop series that is shown to advance your child's reading progress. These workshops have been delivered at other schools in New Zealand with overwhelmingly positive reviews from families.
Attend all 4 workshops and go into the draw to win a $100 Book Voucher.

Note: International Citations for Reading Together® - including OECD and UNESCO - are available here.

The following comments from Robyn Wills (Year 5/6 Teacher) about the implementation of Reading Together® at Wymondley Road School are sourced from Twitter, available here. Note: Comments from Belinda Whyte (a teacher in NZ) are also included, sourced from here.

11 April 2019: We are honouring our first Reading Together® Graduates at our assembly this morning! It's been such an amazing journey to go on with them! Can't wait to do it again in Term 2.
Belinda Whyte: You're doing it every term? Yay!
11 April 2019: At the moment, yes, and we are looking at bringing in the Early Reading Together® programme too. It's been soooo powerful. Even just for getting a love of reading (that was our goal!!) into our whānau's homes more than improving reading.
Belinda Whyte: That's the key goal I think! Anything else is a bonus and will come anyway, I believe. And there is research to back that up! Relatively inexpensive initiative too...

23 May 2019: Another successful Reading Together® session last night... love helping our whānau engage with their tamariki and pukapuka!!!

19 June 2019: I'm looking forward to our last Reading Together® for this term tonight... love seeing how much our parents get into it! And now we have our Parent Pukapuka, our parents are reading for themselves too!! Win, win...

November 2019 Update

Quoting Naketa Ikihele from 'Reading Together® - It works!', available here:

I have had the great pleasure of co-ordinating Reading Together® in my school this year. Two of my colleagues have facilitated the workshops while I work behind in the background. I have to say, without a doubt this has been worth every bit of organisation and after school sessions. I can see why [Sir] Pita Sharples worked so hard to have this available to all schools for always.

Here is some of the feedback from some of our families, that just warms my heart:

• I wish I knew about this for my other children
• I didn't realise you could make reading a fun time
• Mum is more engaged in homework
• My child has jumped reading levels

If you ever get a chance to run this programme in your school, please do!

2020

The following 24 June 2020 comments are sourced from Facebook, available here:

Reading Together® is a programme that is aimed at developing skills for parents to help you help your child with reading at home. The four informal workshops are run after school in a relaxed environment with our staff supporting you to develop new strategies to use at home.
Now in its second year, with fantastic feedback, we are offering the chance to participate for FREE to our community.

2021

The following 28 Feb 2021 comments are sourced from Facebook, available here:

READING TOGETHER® IS BACK... and it's better than ever!!!

This term we are running Reading Together® in 2 timeslots on 2 different days. Now there is no excuse not to attend this well loved, FREE of charge programme. If you want to attend you will have to get in quick.

You and your child will benefit greatly from this programme! What are you waiting for...?

Our workshop is now in its third year and the feedback from families who have participated has been very positive.