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Real Action
MFCE helps to promote and raise funds for the educational charity Real Action which runs
the very successful Butterfly Literacy Schools for children who live in deprived areas of London
and the UK.
Butterfly Saturday Reading School for Children
On Saturday mornings in term-time up to 200 children from in and around the Mozart Estate in West London, aged 5-12 come
to school. In classes of up to 15 children they are taught to read, write and spell by the Butterfly Reading and Writing
Course. This unique method enables them to improve their reading age by an average 13 months in an average 30 hours' teaching.
This is an outstanding result.
| Improving reading & writing skills at Real Action |
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| Photo by: Lisa Howard |
The Butterfly School
Learning to read, write and spell properly at the Butterfly School provides children with a foundation for academic success,
setting them on course for fulfilling lives. Many children come to the Butterfly School several years behind in their reading,
and heading for failure and possible disaffection in their teens. Once on the Butterfly course - their reading swiftly rises
to levels appropriate to, and often beyond, their age. Behaviour and confidence improve too.
Coming to the Butterfly School can transform a child's opportunities.
It's as easy as c + a + t = cat
| Volunteer teaching at the Butterfly School |
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| Photo by: Lisa Howard |
Butterfly children learn to read the easy way:
With the brilliant Butterfly Reading and Writing course by literacy expert Irina Tyk it couldn't be easier to learn -
or to teach - reading and writing. In classes that match their reading level the children are taught to blend letter sounds
into words right from Lesson One. This concise course of structured (synthetic) phonics takes children from reading age zero
to 8 in 60 short lessons. The Butterfly course de-mystifies the teaching of reading.
Children get spelling tests, homework, dictation and, beyond reading age 8, comprehension, grammar, punctuation,
vocabulary, essay-writing etc. as well. They are also encouraged to consider their future careers.
Butterfly children tend to be highly intelligent, dynamIc and capable of high educational achievement - although they
often come to the school several months, or years, behind in reading. A number have 'special needs'. The further behind
they are the faster they tend to rise up through the classes. They find it gratifying, and so do their teachers. Their families
normally can't afford to provide them with tutors to help them.
Many Butterfly teachers are volunteers: it's a gratifying way to spend a Saturday morning.
All Butterfly teachers are dedicated and committed to improving children's literacy as a foundation for fulfilling lives.
Teachers are lawyers, doctors, film and TV producers, music promoters, actors, PhD students, local parents, psychologists,
investment bankers, dancers, teacher training students .... They come from a wide range of cultural backgrounds - like the
children. They can help exemplify the rewards of education to the children, helping to raise their aspirations.
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| At the Butterfly School |
FACTS:
- One in five children leaves primary school unable to read and write adequately.
- As many leave secondary school with poor qualifications - and poor prospects.
- One in six school leavers never enter employment, further education or training; each costs the taxpayer
on average almost £100,000.
| Children learning at the Butterfly School |
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| Photo: by Lisa Howard |
WORD-OF-MOUTH The Butterfly School has grown by word-of-mouth
over seven years - with an ever-growing waiting list. Funds are needed to keep it going and help it grow.
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EDUCATION DIRECTOR
Real Action's Education Director is: Katie Ivens.
FOUNDER
Real Action's Founder is: Roger Diamond.
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