Bookstart Regional Training Meeting

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• Bookstart Regional Training Meeting
• Summer 2009

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AGENDA

• Booktrusts National Offer and the new advocacy
  document
• Bookstart Gifting Message (focusing on the
  quality of the message) to include group exercise
• Updates from other Booktrust gifting programmes
• Health work update
• Bookstart Development Managers work across
  Booktrust and with national partners
• Lunch
• Good practice forum around parental involvement
  ECAT update
• National Bookstart Day 2009
• Booktouch and Bookshine
• Rhymetime Training update
• Bookstarts new website
• Other Booktrust and Bookstart news
• General discussion forum

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BOOKTRUST 2009

• Inspiring a love of books
• Vision Inspiring a lifelong love of books for
  all
• Mission - Booktrust is an independent charity
  dedicated to encouraging people of all ages and
  cultures to engage with books.  The written word
  underpins all our activity and enables us to
  fulfill our vision of inspiring a lifelong love
  of books for all. 

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• Booktrusts National Offer and Advocacy Document

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Booktrust National Offer
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• Booktrusts National Offer and Advocacy Document

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• Booktrust
• Bookstart Development Managers

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Bookstart Development Managers

• A UK-wide network of Booktrust Development
  Managers provide-
• strategic advocacy
• resources
• training
• problem-solving
• continuing support to local partners for the
  successful delivery of Bookstart and other
  bookgifting programmes.
• Raise awareness of bookgifting and other
  Booktrust programmes among regional agencies
  delivering public services to support a strategic
  approach to reading promotion.
• Work with national and regional partners such as
  National Strategies local government offices
  health partners and regional development team.

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• Booktrust
• Bookstart Development Managers

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• Going Forward
• The Importance of Message

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The next big challenge

• Where did we start ?
• Where we are now ?
• Where are we going next ?

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Lessons from Wade and Moore Bookstart Research
- early 1990s
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Access Inspiration and Confidence Who are the
messengers?
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Whats wrong with the message?
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So the question is how can we help parents.

• How do you go from knowing it to doing it ?

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Good Practice - Bookstart Gifting Message

• SPACE FOR SLIDE TO START GOOD PRACTICE EXERCISE
  ON GIFTING MESSAGE

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Gifting and The Bookstart Message
It is important that these packs are gifted by a
professional not just given. This means that
parents are aware of the value and use of the
contents.
Bookstart packs are only half of the gift to
children and their families. The other, more
lasting, gift is the key message of the fun in
book sharing.
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Why Gift the Message ?

• Some parents needed more than the giving of a
  single Bookstart book pack in order to adopt the
  Bookstart philosophy of reading regularly with
  their young child. Bookstart planting a
  seed for Life

Only 2 of children whose parents have low basic
skills develop good skills in literacy or
numeracy. Bookstart is working with health,
library and early years professionals to signpost
parents to family learning opportunities
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The Bookstart Message

• Its never too soon to start sharing and looking
  at books with your child.
• Regularly sharing books for just a few minutes a
  day is one of the best things you can do with
  your child before they start school.
• Sharing books is fun and is something the whole
  family can enjoy.
• Sharing books and rhymes also helps build strong
  and loving relationships.
• Sharing books and talking about the pictures will
  help your child build good language and listening
  skills and will give them a head start
• when they start school.

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• Group Exercise
• Making the Message Work!

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• Going Forward
• The Importance of Message

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• Booktrust
• Other Gifting Programmes

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Booktime

• Reading together for fun and for pleasure
• Booktime provides a free book pack to all
  reception age children in England and Scotland
  (and due to pilot in Wales in 2009)
• Booktime is all about families reading together
  for pleasure to help foster a love of books
• Builds on success of Bookstart and provides link
  to Booked Up
• This year children will receive Ed Veres vibrant
  and colourful Mr Big during the autumn term
• For 2009 we have a new branding and website
  meet our new character, Booky!

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The Booktime book for 2009 Mr Big!
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Booked Up www.bookedup.org.uk

• Booked Up is a national programme aimed at
  encouraging Year 7 aged children to read for
  pleasure
• Last year, 672,000 Year 7 children received their
  free Booked Up book and over 2,100 libraries
  promoted Booked Up and received a free set of the
  books
• Booked Up 2009 will be launched on 8 June 2009
  with a brand new website. The book list for 2009
  will be announced and schools and libraries will
  be invited to register
• Visit the website from 8 June to find out more
  www.bookedup.org.uk

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Letterbox Club

• The Letterbox Club can help to raise the
  educational attainment of children in care and
  other vulnerable children. 
• The parcels are filled with carefully selected
  books, maths games and stationery items. Each
  parcel is addressed to the child at their home
  address along with a letter.
• Approximately 30,000 Letterbox Club parcels will
  be posted out across the UK this year to children
  in care (age 7-11) via local authorities in
  Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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Letterbox Club
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• Booktrust
• Other Gifting Programmes

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• Booktrust
• Health Partnership Update

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Health Update

• Elaine Bielby
• Booktrust National Development Manager Health
  Partnerships
• Tel [phone]
• email elaine.bielby_at_booktrust.org.uk

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Health Update

• Personal Child Health Record (red book)
• Pregnancy Book and Birth to Five Book
• Child Health Strategy
• NHS changes
• Maternity Pack Update

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Health Update
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• Booktrust
• Health Partnership Update

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• LUNCH BREAK!!

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• GOOD PRACTICE FORUM
• Parental Involvement
• Every Child A Talker (ECAT)

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What is Every Child a Talker?

• A two-year programme designed to develop high
  quality, supportive and stimulating environments
  in early years settings to encourage early
  language development.
• Rolled out in three waves to all LAs (51 funded
  LAs in the first year 2008-2009, 46 LAs in 2009
  -2010 and 53 in 2010-2011)
• Each LA appoints an Early Language Consultant
• Intensive work with 20 targeted settings to train
  and support development of Early Language Lead
  Practitioners
• EL Lead Practitioners support a linked setting
  creating a ripple effect

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What it will mean for Early Language Lead
Practitioners and Settings

• Develop an understanding of how language develops
  0-5
• Know the best ways to interact and talk with
  children
• Regularly checking how childrens language is
  developing
• Recognising when children are falling behind
• Getting parents involved in childrens language
  development
• Designing, planning and leading on language
  activities

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What it will mean for parents and children.

• Parents joining sessions led by practitioners for
  book sharing, singing songs, reciting nursery
  rhymes and story telling
• Parents given more detailed information about
  their childs language, e.g. childs use of
  words, size of vocabulary
• Parents get advice on how best
  to help
  their children at home
• Children enjoy the best language experiences from
  birth onwards

ECAT will make the biggest difference to those
children living in disadvantage
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What it will mean for Bookstart.....

• Bookstart Coordinators and Early Years Library
  Services will be key partners in the ECAT
  programme
• Coordinators can contribute to the audit of
  current training and support and help to develop
  an action plan
• Advice on book selection, book sharing and
  working with parents Bookstart book gifting
  (Treasure Chests) and Bookstart Rhymetimes
• Dialogic book reading interactive shared
  picture book reading..
• Bookstart!

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What will it achieve?

• Improved FSP outcomes in CLL by 2010
• Increased practitioner knowledge and skills
• Better parental understanding and engagement

• National Early Years Outcomes Duty Targets
• LAs should
• Increase the proportion of young children
  achieving a total points score of at least 78
  across all EYFSP scales with at least 6 points in
  each of the 7 scales of PSED and CLL by 4 from
  2008-2011
• Improve the average score of the lowest 20 of
  EYFSP results so that the gap is reduced by 3
  from 2008-2011

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ECAT Guidance materials

• Two sets
• Consultants and Lead Practitioners
• Produced in instalments
• Available on the web to all LAs, settings and
  practitioners at
• http//nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/se
  arch/earlyyears/results/nav46542

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• Group Exercise
• Parental Engagement
• Working with ECAT

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• GOOD PRACTICE FORUM
• Parental Involvement
• Every Child A Talker (ECAT)

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• Booktrust
• National Bookstart Day 2009
• (start singing now)

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NATIONAL BOOKSTART DAY 2009

• Market research was conducted in March to find
  out the nations favourite rhyme this will be
  announced at the end of August/beginning
  September (date tbc)
• The top 8 rhymes from this research have been
  used in the free book Bookstarts Favourite
  Rhymes illustrated by Sebastien Braun, published
  by Boxer Books.
• These will be given out at events and on the high
  street by coordinators from targeted schemes
  which are yet to be confirmed.

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NATIONAL BOOKSTART DAY 2009

• Cover of NBD Booklet

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NATIONAL BOOKSTART DAY 2009

• Booktrust is sending out invites to MPs in June
  to promote NBSD
• The theme for the year along with the research is
  being announced at the beginning of July (date
  tbc)
• Available on the website from beginning of July
  (date tbc)
• Colouring and activity sheets x 4
• A3 event poster which can be overwritten
• A5 event flyer which can be overwritten
• A4 Rhymetime sheet double sided with the 8
  rhymes from the booklet
• MP3s of the nursery rhymes
• Screensaver and wallpaper of poster
• Videos of all the rhymes with actions
• We will send a pack of resources out at the end
  of August with the following
• Bookstarts Favourite Rhymes booklet
• A2 poster
• A4 poster
• Lapel stickers with 4 designs as last year

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• Booktrust
• National Bookstart Day 2009

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• Booktrust
• Booktouch and Bookshine

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Booktouch and Bookshine

• Booktouch is the pack for blind or partially
  sighted children, aged between 0 and 4 years.
• Bookshine is the pack for deaf children, aged
  between 0 and 4 years.
• (the term deaf is used to cover the whole
  range of hearing loss.)

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Calculating orders for Booktouch and Bookshine

• There are an estimated 800 babies born each year
  who would be eligible for a Booktouch pack.
• Likewise, there are at least 800 babies born each
  year who would be eligible for a Bookshine pack.
• An order should generally not exceed ten packs,
  unless quantities are based on accurate local
  figures, and order approved by BDM.

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Working with partners to gift the pack

• Most co-ordinators are working successfully with
  local sensory impairment partners to deliver the
  packs.
• This enables them to access local figures,
  identify eligible children and arrange the most
  appropriate means of gifting the pack.
• In different areas, packs are being gifted in
  different ways, e.g. by sensory impairment teams,
  through CDCs, working with local charities, etc.
• Booktrust is currently compiling examples of such
  partnership working and gifting methods to share
  across all schemes.

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Ensuring a child receives the right pack

• A deaf or visually impaired child can be given
  any or all of the standard Bookstart packs, in
  addition to his or her Booktouch or Bookshine
  pack, should this be appropriate.
• Booktouch and Bookshine each offer a toddler
  version which contains a book aimed at slightly
  older children. Coordinators and local partners
  will want to decide which is best suited to the
  individual childs needs.
• Coordinators should keep a record of the number
  of Booktouch and Bookshine packs gifted to
  declare in the online audit.
• Booktouch and Bookshine packs are not for
  children with Special Educational Needs unless
  they are also deaf.
• (Packs of touch and feel books can be ordered
  separately for these audiences).

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Other Booktouch and Bookshine news

• The Bookshine pack will soon include information
  about ITVs Signed Stories resource.
• New material to support the delivery of the packs
  is being developed, including new website copy
  and advice on disability awareness issues.
• The packs are being reviewed and
  amendments/additions will be made for autumn
  2010.
• If you have suggestions for the packs, or can
  share examples of good practice and successful
  partnership working, please contact
  alex_at_strick.co.uk.

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• Booktrust
• Booktouch and Bookshine

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• Booktrust
• Bookstart Rhymetime Training

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Bookstart Rhymetime Training

• We are currently developing a Bookstart Rhymetime
  Training package
• This is a long term project which was initially
  run in Wigan and Suffolk as part of Booktrusts
  NYR Legacy project 08/09
• We trained 22 professionals in Wigan

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Bookstart Rhymetime Training

• And 18 in Suffolk
• Today has been a fantastic learning experience,
  brilliantly led, great pace of delivery and all
  the quality content was really valuable. Ive
  also enjoyed meeting other practitioners and
  sharing new and old ideas.
• Suffolk Delegate 25th Feb 2009

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Bookstart Rhymetime Training

• Now developing a 2 year pilot across 2009-2011
  offering free Bookstart Rhymetime training to a
  small number of LAs in England.
• Pilot aims To develop the confidence of new and
  existing practitioners To value and share the
  good practice and expertise of experienced
  practitioners To demonstrate the value of BS
  Rhymetimes and show how they can contribute to
  local and national targets and agendas.
• Phase 1 (2009-2010) BDM trainers to work with 3
  English LAs to train 60-75 practitioners from
  multi-agency backgrounds in each LA
• All English LAs have been invited to apply and
  application forms are available on the Bookstart
  website
• Deadline for completed applications is 29th May
  2009
• 3 applicants will be selected at random and
  offered the free training by mid June 09.

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Bookstart Rhymetime Training

• Alongside the free Bookstart Rhymetime Training
  we are planning to develop the Bookstart
  Rhymetime area of the website
• Some of the training content will be made
  available online, along with good practice areas,
  blogs, mp3s and video clips, plus downloadable
  Bookstart Rhymetime sheets and resources
• Do let us know if there is anything that you
  would like to see in this section of the website,
  or have pages we can link to
• Well update you again and launch the new area of
  the website in November 2009
• All enquires about the project should be directed
  to
• Natasha Baker, Project Manager
• 020 84110016
• natasha_at_booktrust.org.uk

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• Booktrust
• Bookstart Rhymetime Training

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• Booktrust
• Bookstart Thank You Certificate

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THANK YOU CERTIFICATE

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• Booktrust
• Bookstart Thank You Certificate

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• Booktrust
• Bookstart Website

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Welcome to our new site! Look at all the new
things... Can you spot the blog? The competition?
The games? The book reviews? Our own animated
bear?
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This is the NEW events calendar. It needs MORE
events. You will need to sign up again to add
things, but its more informative and easier to
look at!
This is your blog. You can find out whats new,
add your own entries and comment on others
posts. Send your blogs to Nikesh_at_booktrust.org.uk
These are your support materials. They may look
different but its the same info!
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• Booktrust
• Bookstart Website

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• Booktrust and Bookstart News

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Booktrust Early Years Awards

• Chance to shadow the awards
• Potential for mini reading groups?
• Posters to advertise awards
• Resources available from Booktrust

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Regional Conferences 2010

• Locations Bristol Manchester Leicester
• Suggested dates 18-22 Jan (conf 1) 25-29 Jan
  (conf 2) 1-5 Feb (conf 3)
• Outline
• The three regional conferences will differ from
  the national in style and format. They will be
  more practically oriented and appeal mostly to
  practitioners and to regional colleagues who want
  to understand the bookgifting programmes, how
  they are delivered and the contribution they can
  make to targets and priorities within the Local
  Authority as a whole.
• Aims
• To raise awareness of Booktrusts bookgifting
  programmes and national offer
• To showcase good practice to Local Authorities
  and professional partners
• To facilitate discussion within local authorities
  
• Audience
• Aimed at Bookstart Coordinators, Childrens
  Centre managers local authority middle managers
  (health, libraries, education, early years,
  family learning, social inclusion, diversity)

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Press Workshops

• Locations and dates
• Monday 20 July Solihull
• Friday 24 July Newcastle
• Monday 27 July Slough
• Outline
• The three regional workshops will offer practical
  ways of working for Local Authority press
  officers both those who work for the Library
  service and those for Early Years/Childrens
  Centres to promote the work of Bookstart /
  Booktrust and the book sharing messages.
• Aims
• To raise awareness of Booktrusts bookgifting
  programmes for LA press officers focusing on
  Bookstart
• To showcase good practice to press officer
  partners and highlight how Bookstart/Booktrust
  activities can promote a range of agendas across
  the Local Authority.
• To facilitate discussion within local authorities
  staff
• Audience
• Aimed at Local Authority Press Officers who work
  on library services and/or Early Years.

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Booktrust Power of Reading Award

• The prize is awarded as part of Adult Learners
  Week to celebrate an individual or group showing
  extraordinary accomplishments through reading.
• Gerildine Talbot has been selected as winner and
  will be presented with her prize on 15th May
• "When they told me I had won I thought it was a
  wind-up!" exclaimed Talbot. "I used to walk about
  unable to read boards in the street. Letters sent
  from the school all had to be explained to me. I
  now cannot stop reading. In class I can even read
  aloud. I have books galore at home and now
  understand the joy of reading. Hopefully my
  winning the award will show others that your past
  doesn't have to continue into your present and
  everybody can learn to read if they want to with
  the support of family and teaching staff."

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• Booktrust and Bookstart News

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• Any other business?