You have no idea the relief I feel…
"When we signed up we thought we'd do it for a couple of months, but Arlo's loved it so much, and has made such phenomenal progress, that we ended up completing the whole programme! Without your programme Arlo would have been another dismal reading statistic but now...
read more6 years progression during Easyread!!
Hi David I just wanted to share this with you. On our own assessments, that purely test de-coding skills, Cameron started Easyread in Year3 at 4 years and 3 months. He is now in Year4 at lesson 349 and we have done his final test, which has come out at 10 years and 2...
read moreWhen should you start reading to your child?
Is there such a thing as starting too early, when it comes to reading to your child? In an interview with Time Magazine, Dr Pamela High said the image of her son's babysitter reading aloud from a book of her own whilst they sat in a rocking chair made a big impression...
read moreBreakthrough Readers of April and May
Even though we’ve had a very busy month (thank you again for all of your support during our Virgin Media Business Awards campaign!) we couldn’t forget our Breakthrough Readers of the month! So please join us in congratulating our secret agents who have been awarded...
read morePlus 2 motivates more than minus 18
Experienced teacher of over 40 years, Rita Pierson, is a woman after our own hearts with her techniques for positive praise in the classroom to promote a growth mindset. If a child has received a lower score than they would have liked in a test, Rita will mark their...
read moreShould Australian Chief Minister resign after dyslexia jibes?
Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, Australia, faces calls to resign after dyslexia jibes made against a Labour Parliamentarian, The Guardian reports. Adam Giles, Chief Minister, said of the future Labour government: "Let us hope the dyslexic member for...
read moreThank you!
Just a message to say a HUGE thank you for supporting project Peasyread! Even though we probably won't have made it to the VOOM pitchathon, your support and pledges have meant so much to us. We're going to continue working on creating our fun and easy app, so that...
read more4 days to go and we need your help now more than ever
With 4 days to go, we still need your help! If you haven't already, then please take 30 seconds to vote for our free reading app for every child. https://www.vmbvoom.com/pitches/peasyread/ If there's 1, 2, 3, maybe 4 or 5 people you haven't told about project...
read moreAn update on our Virgin Media Business Awards campaign
Hi everybody! Thanks so much for all your votes and shares and pledges so far - it means the world to us. As it stands, we are at 275th in the start-up leadership board. We need to get into the top 80 and still be there by 11:59pm GMT on Monday the 23rd May. It seems...
read morePlease support project Peasyread
As some of you have seen, we have been trialling some new games with our Easyread secret agents. Their feedback has been incredible, and we're confident that we're onto a winning prototype for a learn-to-read app, so that every child has the best possible start to...
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