Who would have thought that two 14-year-old boys would get a kick out of reading to nursery children? And that the rest of Year 10 at their school was queuing up behind them to have a go? This is such a simple idea, with huge benefits for both ages, that you wonder why there aren't similar links between playgroups and secondary schools all over the country.
Every fortnight 24 children from the Harrow Way Pre-School Group in Andover, Hampshire, walk to big school' Harrow Way Community School to have two Year 10 pupils read out loud to them in the library. Luckily for them they are situated on the campus of the comprehensive, so the walk is not far.
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