83%
of Year 5 pupils improved their relationship with reading by the end of the six weeks.
Pilot Results
What the evidence shows.
95%
of pupils met their personal reading pledge - the goal they set for themselves at the start of the programme.
37%
exceeded their reading goal, going further than they had committed to.
Source: Reading Remedy Pilot, Brereton Primary School, Year 5 cohort
Statistics are based on pupil responses to the final reflection; response numbers varied by question.
Pupil voice
In their own words.
I have started reading for 10 minutes every night...I tried to do something and I actually did it. I am going to read more and more.
I am reading more and discovering new books that I like.
I felt like an adventurer.
I've read two books within 5 days.
Beyond the numbers
What the data tells us.
Across the six-week Reading Remedy programme, school staff and I saw a noticeable shift in the children's attitudes towards reading. A genuine buzz spread through the class. Children brought in books from home, recommended them to one another and shared their experiences willingly. Reading took on a sense of ownership, especially once they'd gained access to the “magical book box” (as one pupil coined it) and made their reading pledges.
Some changes were small; others went further than we expected. One boy had ticked that he “never read for pleasure” in his initial reflection. By the end of the programme, he'd independently read an entire book at home, and said reading before bed helped him feel better in the mornings. For him, as for others in the class, the turning point came when reading stopped feeling like a task and became something he chose for himself.