By Jonathan Hannay | Project Leader
This has been an amazing year for the project, with your support, we reached 4 kindergardens and 6 elementary schools and over the year our young people delivered multiple sessions to each one of 5,813 different children. The numbers are stunning: our 26 teenagers delivered a massive 1,952 sessions during the school year. I know, these are just numbers, how about the quality of the work delivered to the children you may ask. Well, at the end of November and the beginning of December we interviewed 66 teachers and headteachers from the schools in order to find out more.
Here are some highlights: all respondents believe the project to be very important for their school and 98.5% affirmed that it contributed greatly to improve the children's academic results, their use of imagination and also their interest in reading; 81.8% also stated that it improved their behavior a lot. The highest scoring activity was story telling with a 9.5 with puppet theatre getting a 9.3 and reading mediation a 9. The teachers gave very high marks to the teenagers delivering the project especially for their manners, their dedication, their respect and the interest and affection shown towards the children and 100% stated that the children bonded with them.
Here are the testimonials of three of the teachers which, I think you will agree, reflect what the survey numbers tell us:
“I am Professor Renato from the 3rd year F, here at EMEB Annete. This project is wonderful, it encourages children a lot to have that pleasure of reading, pleasure, not obligation. How good it is for us to have culture, open horizons, and get into history, it's knowledge that stays. The people at ACER are to be congratulated, thank you very much, may this project continue for many, many years.” Renato, Annete Melchioretto School
“It's an incentive because seeing other people reading to them is an incentive, it makes them want to read and it becomes something in their daily lives, it's an incentive every time they have someone besides the teacher, someone from outside the classroom. the school that is carrying out this reading. This becomes normal, in their daily lives, it really contributes to this practical part of reading for them to occur in various spaces, not just at school.” Tamr, Annete Melchioretto School
“When you come like this, it's a pleasant moment for them, they look forward to it. They look forward to seeing you, it's something they like a lot. After you started to come, they became more interested in the reading box, before it was just a decoration in the room, and now they really got interested in reading. The storytelling, they still remember today, is something that marks and works, because it really awakens interest in reading, it's very cool, we expect it to happen for a long time. You are to be congratulated." Thais, Profª Fabiola de Lima Goyano School
I would like to thank all of you who have supported the project this year and hope that you will be able to continue supporting us in 2023 and can invite friends and colleagues to support the project as well.
By Jonathan Hannay | Project Leader
By Jonathan Hannay | Project Leader
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