Read, Write, Count campaign

Date: 9th December 2020
Category: Education, including vocational education, Additional support for learning
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The campaign aims to encourage parents and carers to get involved in their children’s learning when they are in Primary 1, 2 and 3. Activity bags have been developed which include books and games to help children learn and have fun.

The Primary 1 activity bag includes:

• A whiteboard and whiteboard pen
• Number magnets 
• Colouring pencils
• An activities notebook
• Brenda is a Sheep by Morag Hood 
• My First Book of Birds illustrated by Zoë Ingram
• This is a Dog by Ross Collins

The Primary 2 activity bag includes:

• Story cubes
• A notebook and pencil
• Shape Shuffle card game with Talk it Out and Act it Out cards on the reverse
• Rocketmole by Matt Carr
• How Many Trees? by Barroux

The Primary 3 activity bag includes:

• A notebook and pencil
• Coastal Commotion with time and story activity cards on the reverse
• A parent/ carer guide
• A measuring tape
• Wow! Animals by Jacqueline McCann, Emma Dods and Marc Aspinall
• Look Up! by Nathan Bryon and Dapo Adeola

Find out more about the Read, Write, Count campaign and how to receive these activity bags here.