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Manchester Abseil
Back by popular demand! The Manchester Abseil is back again this year; volunteers will descend down Manchester Town Hall on Sunday 29th June ...
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Springboard for Children provides a literacy lifeline for children with learning difficulties in inner city primary schools.
A team of specialist teachers and trained volunteers offers one-to-one literacy teaching, to help children realise their full potential.
What we do
Springboard for Children is a registered charity which provides literacy support to disadvantaged children in inner-city primary schools. We work in partnership with primary schools and specialise in giving the gift of reading and writing to children who find learning difficult for many reasons.
We are committed to working with all children who need literacy support, whatever their background, race or creed.
We seek to raise the expectations of the children we teach, and to strengthen their hope. We are passionate in our determination to give them the skills and aspirations that will enable them to escape from the frustrations of being unable to read and write.
Springboard for Children has helped my daughter with her reading and spelling. Before Springboard she had no confidence; now, she picks up the newspaper and reads the news. She is a happier child and she does not feel that she is stupid. Thank you!
- Mrs Connolly, parent
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The Literacy Partnership for Primary Schools
You may have seen the recent excellent Channel 4 documentaries ‘Lost for Words’ which highlighted the serious problem of illiteracy among many of our primary school children in the UK ...
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Information to parents:
The Literacy Partnership for Primary Schools
Springboard for Children takes pupil referrals from the specific schools in which we work (currently in London and Manchester). We are unfortunately not able to take individual referrals from other locations.
Advice and information for parents is available from the British Dyslexia Association either on their website
www.bdadyslexia.org.uk or their telephone helpline
0118 966 8271. There is further information available from Dyslexia Action – website
www.dyslexiaaction.org.uk; or telephone Head Office
01784 222300.