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Awareness Raising Collaborations - MS Readathon
Action: 3.A.1
357% increase in uptake
Overview:
MS Readathon, which has taken place annually for 36 years, encourages children to read as many books as
they can during November, whilst raising proceeds for MS Ireland. Languages Connect have collaborated with
MS Ireland for several years to sponsor a prize in a special foreign language category.
Main Aims:
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To encourage young people to read in a language other than English or Irish
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To promote the importance of reading in a heritage language to parents
Activity:
Languages Connect contributed to the promotion of the event and encouraged participants to read in a
language other than English or Irish. Children took the opportunity to read in a wide variety of languages.
Parents were encouraged to get their children to read in their heritage language, which complements the
Languages Connect School Library Home Languages Funding Scheme. Two readers, one of whom read in
French, and the other in Spanish, won an iPad.
Impact:
Next Steps:
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Continue to work with MS Readathon in 2024
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Seek to increase participation of pupils
This partnership helps encourage a much
wider audience to read in a foreign language
and build awareness of the benefits of language
skills to children and parents nationwide
•
engaged in 'Say Yes to Languages' with MS
Readathon particularly in the context of
In 2023 there was a 357% increase in the
significant number of schools having availed
number of children reading in a foreign
of the School Library Funding Scheme
language when compared with 2022
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