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Mark Todd

 

I became Member of Parliament for South Derbyshire on May 1, 1997 and stood down when Parliament was dissolved on April 12, 2010. In that time I was contacted by more than 15,000 households (around one in four of those in the area). This website provides information on my work, both in and on behalf of the constituency.
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Jan 27, 2010 - Reading Recovery
Schools in Derbyshire will be urged to apply to join a scheme that can increase a child's reading age by nearly two years within five months.
 
Mark has been told that the county council will be running a recruitment drive next month (feb 2010) to get 11 more schools in Derby and Derbyshire on the Reading Recovery scheme from this September.
 
Mark started campaigning for more schools to be involved in this project after visiting schools in his constituency and witnessing the amazing improvements made by children.
 
The Reading Recovery programme, which was set up in New Zealand more than 20 years ago, is an individual teaching scheme focused on literacy. Children who are struggling with reading, aged five to seven, receive 30 minutes of specialised teaching every day.
 
The scheme, which was taken over by the Government two years ago and is now part of a wider programme called Every Child a Reader, has been running in Derbyshire for six years.
 
There are now 34 schools, including three in South Derbyshire, with teachers trained or in training in Reading Recovery.
 
Mark would like to see more schools join. The council says that no schools that have asked for a teacher to be trained in reading recovery have been turned down.
 
National figures show that in 2008/09, children on the scheme made on average a gain of 21 months in reading age in five months (40 hours of teaching in daily lessons) which is over four times the normal rate of progress.
 
Mark said: "Reading is the key to almost all learning and is critical to a child's participation in the wider school community. I've seen the impact this scheme makes on both a child's achievement levels and on their personal self-confidence. I very much hope that schools will take this opportunity."
 
NB. The three South Derbyshire schools involved are Elmsleigh Infants School in Midway; Stenson Fields Primary and Woodville Infants. Last year, Stenson Fields won a national award for good practice in Reading Recovery.
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