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/ MIDDLESBROUGH NEWS
EDUCATIONAL INNOVATORS
LAUNCH LITERACY PARTNERSHIP
Two of Teesside’s foremost education
organisations have launched a collaborative
project to raise the literacy levels of local
students.
Middlesbrough College has agreed an
innovative partnership with Sound Training
that has resulted in the college now having
eight specialist teachers trained and licensed
to deliver a ground-breaking teaching
programme throughout the college.
Middlesbrough-based Sound Training’s
fast-growing teaching programme delivers
a dramatic impact on the literacy levels of
students of all ages and abilities in just six
hour-long sessions.
While Sound Training has established
working partnerships with more than 300
primary and secondary schools across the
UK, Middlesbrough College is the first solely
post-16 provider to license the ground-
breaking teaching
programme.
To celebrate the
launch of the new
partnership, 450
of the college’s
teaching and
leadership staff
attended a Sound
Training live
demonstration
and workshop.
Katy Parkinson,
founder director
of a company
that now employs
100 staff across the country including 20 on
Teesside, led an on-stage demonstration of a
typical Sound Training lesson.
Following the demonstration, all college
teaching staff participated in workshops
that focused on morphology – the structure
of words – and etymology – the origins of
words.
Middlesbrough College principal and chief
executive Zoe Lewis said: “We alrea