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Inspiring a lifelong love of books

Helping children achieve more

• Bookstart

• Booktime

• Booked Up

• Letterbox Club for Looked after children( a purchasable programme )

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Aims

To see the bookgifting programmes as a continuum

supporting children on their reading journey and as a core

service for children and families

To understand how the programmes are co-ordinated and

administered here in …..

To explore new ways of working - ideas for increasing the

effectiveness and realising the potential of the bookgifting

programmes

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Bookgifting programmes in (LA name)

Children are eligible to receive the free gifts at five key stages:

Bookstart for babies ________

Bookstart+ for toddlers ________

My Bookstart Treasure Chest for pre-school children _______

Booktime for reception-aged children _________

Booked Up for Year 7 pupils _________

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The number of eligible children in ( Name of LA )

to receive a book gift this year is:

----

Bookgifting programmes in (LA name)

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Bookstart

Bookstart is one of the most respected early intervention

programmes in the world

It gives cultural and creative access to every child

Bookstart began in 1992 and is almost 20 years old!

Became the first national bookgifting programme in the world in 2000

More than 24 countries have followed in Bookstart’s

footsteps and set up similar programmes

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Bookstart Baby Pack

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Bookstart + Toddler Pack

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My Bookstart Treasure Chest Pre-school Pack

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www.bookstart.org.uk

Bookstart Rhymetimes

Bookstart Bookcrawl

Bedtime Reading

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The Rhyme Challenge Learn up to 10 rhymes together:

At home with the family

At an early years setting

At primary school

Hold a special Rhymetime event

Receive a special certificate

Build confidence around rhymes -

children, parents and practitioners

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Bookstart and Dual Language Resources

o Albanian

o Arabic

o Bengali

o Chinese

o Croatian

o Czech

o Farsi

o French

oGreek

o Scottish Gaelic

o Somali

o Spanish

o Tagalog

o Tamil

o Turkish

oUrdu

o Vietnamese

o Yoruba

oGujarati

oHindi

oItalian

oJapanese

oPunjabi

oPolish

oPortuguese

oRomanian

oRussian

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Booktouch and Bookshine

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www.booktime.org.uk Potential outcomes:

May encourage book sharing and family

involvement

Increase parental confidence

Promote positive home/school

relationships

Builds on partnership with local Library

Service

--- schools receive free Booktime resources

every year in -----------

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www.bookedup.org.uk

Booked Up encourages independent

choice and reading for pleasure by

giving a free book to every Year 7

pupil in ( LA NAME ) when they start

secondary school

( Number )secondary schools in ( LA

NAME ) take part each year )

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www.letterboxclub.org.uk

Letterbox Blue for Year 3-4 Letterbox Red for Year 5-6

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Public Private Partnership

1BooktrustCharity +

2Central

Government - DfE

‘ Catalyst’Investment

funding

+

3Children’s Publishers, Authors,

Illustrators and others.

Corporate Social

Responsibility

=

BookstartBooktime

Booked Up

Not for Profit £13M £56MProgrammes

worth

£69million pa

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The value of Bookgifting to (LA name)

There are ( put total number of eligible children) in our authority

The retail value of Bookstart, Booktime and Booked Up equates to:

£??????

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Gifting Routes

Library Services

Early Years Services

Children’s Centres

Childminders

Health Services

Primary Schools

Secondary Schools

Home Educated services

Gypsy Roma Traveller Families

English as a second language

Visual Support Teachers

Deaf Support Teachers

New Arrival Families

Women's Refuges

Prisons

Pupil Referral Units

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An amazing bargain – with outcomes beyond price

Stories, songs and rhymes are a cultural entitlement for all children to enjoy

A child who shares books every day and lives in a language-rich home, develops

language and literacy skills, as well as benefiting socially and emotionally

We help fathers, mothers and carers see themselves as the child’s most

important and enduring teachers and help them to enjoy and value reading in

the home

Children who enjoy books become well rounded individuals, articulate confident

and eager learners and these benefits can last a lifetime

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£????? invested in (LA name)

‘Books are a mirror to your life, and a window on the world.’

‘ Sharing a book with your child is very special; as you talk about

the story, you get to know your child and they get to know you.

This is really precious time and it is not only about learning skills -

stories teach us the very nature of being human.’

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Bookstart, Booktime, Booked Upin (Name of LA )

Bookstart Co-ordinator

Funding partners

Local storage

Local delivery

Working with Partners

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Addressing social disadvantage

List the specialist groups and agencies that you work with to reach disadvantaged families

> Add a local Picture Here

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Challenges and opportunities.... We need your help

List three key things that you really need support with going

forward

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2)

3)

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Inspiring a lifelong love of books

Helping children achieve more

• Bookstart

• Booktime

• Booked Up

• Letterbox Club for Looked after children