Getting started overview

As Sparx Reader Leader for your school, there are six key steps you need to complete to set your department and students up with Sparx Reader. Some of the steps you might want to delegate to other members of your department, such as setting the Sparx Reading Test for their individual classes.

1. Add classes and students to the site. See: Adding classes and students
2. Add your teachers to the site. See: Creating teacher accounts
3. Introduce Sparx Reader to your department and ensure all teachers complete their training.  
4. Introduce Sparx Reader to your students in a launch lesson. See Introducing Sparx Reader to students
5. Introduce Sparx Reader to parents and carers. See Engaging parents/carers
6. Once the Sparx Reading Test has been completed, set homework. See guidance here: Setting homework

Implementing Sparx Reader in your school 

From both Sparx Maths and Sparx Reader it is clear that a smooth onboarding process for staff and students will mean better engagement in your school. 

We recommend you introduce Sparx Reader to your students during a lesson so that you can oversee students logging in and completing their SRT in assessment conditions. You can find more information about how to introduce Sparx Reader to your students in this article: Introducing Sparx Reader to your students

We also recommend having a look at our Implementing Sparx Reader in your school section for best practice advice we have gathered from the schools we work with about how best to implement Sparx Reader for both students and teachers. 

What next? 

We'd recommend having a look at our Monitoring homework articles, which show you the key pages you can use in Sparx Reader to monitor homework.

Once you have begun setting homework, we have our Boosting your homework rates section, which contains useful advice and resources about how to get the most out of Sparx Reader and improve your completion rates.