Peer Reading Celebrations

Junior students began their first twenty minute reading session with their Senior Buddies in week three of term 2. Each junior student read three times a week to their Senior Buddy for a total of five and a half weeks. Over the course of the programme this amounted to a staggering extra five hours of reading for each junior student.

This year’s group of Senior students were very committed to the programme regularly checking in with Ms MacTaggart to ensure their Junior student had the appropriate level of reading material and to ask thoughtful questions about their particular Junior Buddy’s learning needs. Junior students were equally as engaged with the process, turning up to the library as quickly as they could and settling to read with their Senior Buddy so as to make the most of the time.

Well done everybody, it has been a pleasure to work with such a great bunch of students.