Annual Report 2024 - Flipbook - Page 131
Awareness Raising Collaborations - MS Readathon
Action: 3.A.2
3.A.8
23 Languages
Overview:
MS Readathon encourages children to read as many books as they can during November, whilst raising funds
for Multiple Sclerosis Ireland (MS Ireland). PPLI 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 MS Readathon and encouraged participants to read in a
language other than English or Irish. This year, for the first time, a foreign language book review was included
in the competition. Children embraced the opportunity to read in a wide variety of languages, including
Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian,
Japanese, Italian, Lithuanian, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukrainian.
Parents were encouraged to get their children to read in their heritage language. There were prizes for both
primary and post-primary level winners. The two review winners read books in Dutch and Spanish.
Impact:
Next Steps:
• This partnership helps encourage a much wider
• Continue to work with MS Readathon in 2025
audience to read in a foreign language and raises
and leverage the opportunities to promote
awareness of the benefits of language skills
languages to the thousands of pupils and
amongst children and parents nationwide
students nationwide who take part in such a
• The initiative encourages children to connect with
and/or stay connected with their heritage
well- established fundraising activity
• Continue to cross-promote the MS Readathon
competition with schools and pupils engaged
languages
• In 2024 children read in 23 different foreign
in the 'Say Yes to Languages' module
languages
- PPLI ANNUAL REPORT 2024 -
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