The Impact of Our Work
The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education is a UK based children’s literacy charity working with early years and Primary schools across the country and internationally. Our work raises the achievement of children’s reading and writing by helping schools to teach literacy creatively and effectively, supporting children to read and write for purpose and for pleasure. We run professional development courses and research programmes at our literacy library in central London and provide a wide range of teaching resources for Primary teachers.
Our latest impact report measures our growth and impact on literacy learning and teaching across 2023 - 2024. It brings together data from our training courses, as well as our leading research in the field of picturebooks (The Power of Pictures), diversity and representation (Reflecting Realities), and poetry, including the CLPE poetry award, CLiPPA.
The report showcases the impact of our teacher training and development programmes with the following results :
- 397 teachers attended our in-person training courses;
- 1493 teachers attended on our online training;
- 2270 books were given away as part of our training programme;
- 100% of respondents rated our in-person training as effective and 97% of respondents rated our online training as effective;
- 100% of respondents would recommend our in-person training to someone else while 98% of respondents would recommend our online training to someone else;
- 98% of teachers who attended our Power of Reading Training would recommend training to someone else
- 54 schools nationally and internationally had INSET training delivered by the CLPE Team.
Additionally 925 schools have a CLPE School Membership with access to children's book recommendations and teaching plans, with 94% of teachers reporting children are choosing to read more independently in school.
A separate 2023 report on the Power of Reading is available below.
