Current POR project schools and subscribing schools please click below to access the POR website login page.

Access to the site is restricted to current POR project schools for 2011-12 and to subscribing schools from previous years.

The user name and password for the website changed on 7th January 2012. If you are a current project member you will have received an email with the new login details. Please check your email and junk mail. If you cannot find the email, please contact Gwyneth@clpe.co.uk

If you are a project school from a previous year and have resubscribed for the year 2011-12 you will have received the new login details via email.

Please share the new login details with colleagues in your school who use the site.

If you are a project school from last year or have subscribed in previous years, your subscription lapsed on January 1st 2012. To continue to access the website you must resubscribe at a cost of £175. Click below to download the form, and send with payment to
Gwyneth Dear, POR Project Administrator, CLPE, Webber Street, London SE1 8QW.

Or you can pay on line

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Information
The Power of Reading project CLPE’s highly successful Power of Reading project enhances teachers’ and children’s pleasure in reading, and raises children’s achievement through teachers’ knowledge of literature and its creative use in the classroom.

The project has now been running for six years and has involved 10 projects based at CLPE in London with 31 additional projects in 19 different Local Authorities nationally. To date there have been nearly 1200 schools, 1,500 teachers and over 60,000 children participating in the project from Cumbria to Southampton and from Bristol to Hastings.

Project aims
The project aims to enhance teachers’ and children’s pleasure in reading and raise children’s achievement through developing teachers’ knowledge of literature and its use in the primary classroom.

Raised achievement
Analysis of data from four participating local authorities (2008-09) showed that 70% of children progressed by 2 or more National Curriculum sublevels and nearly and 33% by 3 or more. Data specifically indicates that as a result of the project the rate of progress for boys is narrowing the attainment gap between boys and girls.

Positive attitudes to reading
Findings from the research, funded by the Arts Council, shows that children are:
• choosing to read more often and at greater length
• keen to read challenging books
• more confident and knowledgeable in talking
about books
• willing to seek out deeper meanings in texts
• showing greater enjoyment and achievement
in writing.
Changes in attitude have been particularly significant
for boys who have been reluctant readers and writers.

Projects for 2011-2012 will begin in September/October 2011
Projects are run centrally at CLPE for schools in London and the South East and in local venues in many parts of the country. Schools, school clusters and Local Authorities can contact us for further infomation by clicking on the links below.

Email project administrator Gwyneth Dear gwyneth@clpe.co.uk

Email project Co-Director Sue McGonigle for LA enquiries suem@clpe.co.uk