{"id":1888,"date":"2015-04-30T15:07:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T15:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=1888"},"modified":"2015-04-30T15:07:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T15:07:16","slug":"put-it-to-the-test-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/?p=1888","title":{"rendered":"Put It To The Test-o"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m still fizzing from my visit yesterday to Alexandra Park School <\/strong><\/a>– my second as their Patron of Reading<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The first visit back in December as a Book Doctor<\/strong><\/a> was deliberately low-key, to help me find my way into the role. This…<\/p>\n

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…was much bigger<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In two sessions I spoke to the whole of the school’s Years 7 and 8 – introducing myself, taking questions, talking about how I became a reader, and putting forward my next idea: a Free Readers Manifesto<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What I would like to develop is a way of encouraging students to read by thinking about the differences between reading you have to do for school and reading you do\u00a0for yourself<\/strong> – which is what I mean by\u00a0Free Reading<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

APS students can – and did! – give me comments<\/strong>, questions<\/strong> and suggestions<\/strong> about how this manifesto could end up – because it’s not finished<\/strong>. When it’s done I would like it to be theirs as much as mine – something we’ve come up with\u00a0together<\/strong>. For now, however, the draft version I gave them to consider and work on with me looks like this…<\/p>\n

The Free Readers Manifesto – First Draft<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

1. We are free to read whatever we want.<\/strong><\/p>\n

2. We are free to skip bits we find badly written or boring.<\/strong><\/p>\n

3. We are free to give up on reading that does not give us what we want, and find other reading that does.<\/strong><\/p>\n

4. As Free Readers we will not be measured, tested or questioned on our reading – unless we want to be.<\/strong><\/p>\n

How can this manifesto be developed and improved? I can hardly wait to find out<\/strong>. Meanwhile, my thanks and best wishes to Alexandra Park School’s staff and students for what was another thrilling and inspiring visit.<\/p>\n

Being a Patron of Reading<\/strong><\/a> is brilliant<\/strong>. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m still fizzing from my visit yesterday to Alexandra Park School – my second as their Patron of Reading. The first visit back in December as a Book Doctor was deliberately low-key, to help me find my way into the role. This… …was much bigger. In two sessions I spoke to the whole of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events-and-appearances","category-patron-of-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1888\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mynameiso.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}