We were thrilled to speak to both of these Sparx schools about implementation, engagement, and top tips!

We were thrilled to speak to Sam Neat, Assistant Principal for T&L and Reading Lead at Madeley High School in Crewe. Sam has had huge success implementing Sparx Reader at her school and talked about the launch, the messaging, and maintaining momentum at scale.

In this webinar, Matt and Laura - our chief content designers, chat about question design, the Sparx Reader Library, upcoming releases, limiting book choice and there's a bit of time for Q&A too.

In this webinar, we give an overview of reluctant readers and how to support them by maximising Sparx Reader's functionality. We also hear from Wey Valley Academy (1000 students - 28% PP) and Clacton Coastal Academy (1500 students - 50% PP) how they implement Reader and support their students. We also have a Q&A session at the end with questions from our attendees for our guest speakers.

In this webinar, we were delighted to host Jono Stirrup, Head of English at Dartmouth Academy, who shared lots of practical tips on how to secure really high engagement and completion rates - week on week - as well as how to launch Sparx Reader with purpose, integrity and longevity.

In this webinar Dave and Kate talked through the exciting new updates to Sparx Reader including new student and parent resources, how to maximise impact and advice for new Sparx Leaders.

In this webinar, we share advice for anybody new to being a Sparx Reader Leader (it also serves as a useful refresher for existing leaders!). We include guidance on getting everybody in your school using the system consistently.

See also: Stepping up to lead Sparx Reader_ Slides for Teachers

Donal Hale from Trinity Academy Leeds joins us to discuss how to implement Sparx Reader in September.
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In this webinar, we discuss the impact of Sparx Reader during the trial, including a strong positive relationship between amount of reading and increase in reading age.

In this webinar, we discuss the student activity timeline, celebratory parent emails, SRT improvements, mature themes and more books in our library!
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In this webinar we talked about contextual definitions, becoming a Sparx expert with our Reader training, new homework activity timeline, maximising impact using the Hand-In page and Gold Reader improvements.
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In this webinar we talked about what SRP is, how students earn it, when they don't earn it, why number of questions can be different and included some tips!
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In this webinar, we talked about the working memory and reading, why does the text vanish, when do question checks appear and a bit about question design.

In this webinar, we discussed The Sparx Reader Library, Book Choice and some product updates.