Knightsridge Nursery School's 'Talking Books for All' project, aimed at encouraging parents and carers of nursery children to become involved in promoting literacy in the home, was the only pre-school project to be awarded a grant in the first phase of the National Grid for Learning Scotland innovation awards scheme.
Nursery head Morag Stewart said the funding has allowed the project to be accessed by all the nursery parents and their children. She said, 'We see this scheme as a tool to be used as well as reading books. The nursery promotes parents as the primary educators of children and we hope this scheme will encourage parents and children to interact and improve the children's literacy. If it does this we have achieved our aim.'
The ceremony, at Learning and Teaching Scotland's Glasgow offices, highlighted the achievements of award-winners to date and saw the launch of Phase 2 of the scheme, which aims to encourage small-scale, local learning projects to improve access to information technology and develop relevant learning materials and skills.
All publicly funded learning organisations in Scotland may apply and the closing date is 31 August 2001. For an application form contact Joyce Meach on 01382 443649 or email innovation ltscotland.com.
