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This page gives some information about our 'Boys Education' initiatives from the perspective of the School Library. What has been done to improve/ promote literacy to the boys in our school from the 'library angle' ? Throughout the year a few initiatives have been tried. At the beginning of the year a survey was administered to find out about reading practices etc throughout the school. Generally I do this each year. This year though, I adapted a survey that I found on the net, (http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/Research/Reading_Connects_blank_questionnaire) that asked questions about who encouraged reading at home and what types of material the students were reading. The resulting data was interesting. Here are the survey pages:

A lot of our data in respect to Boys & Reading mirrored the results found in this article called 'Boys Reading Choices' at http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/Database/boys/English.html

As a response to this perceived 'lack of enthusiasm' towards reading I developed a proposal that promoted the 'idea' of reading as being 'cool' and something __boys and girls__ would like to do. This is the proposal