Education secretary Justine Greening attended the launch of a new partnership between Arsenal in the Community and the UCL Institute of Education (IoE) with the aim to reach more north London children with reading programmes.
Ms Greening was given a tour of the Emirates Stadium before listening to pupils aged between five and seven read. They had all benefited from either IoE’s literacy intervention Reading Recovery or Arsenal FC’s Double Club initiative.
Double Club is an award-winning education programme that uses football as the hook to make learning fun and engaging. Reading Recovery is an accredited school-based literacy programme for the lowest-achieving children aged five and six that enables them to reach age-expected levels within 20 weeks.
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