Our school partners

We work in close partnership with our network of schools, helping them support children to develop a love of reading.

We collected Net Promoter Scores8 from our partner schools for the first time this academic year – and the results suggest that teachers are likely to recommend our reading programme to other teachers. We also received positive feedback from schools that remained in our reading programme at the end of the academic year. 88 teachers responded to our end-of-year survey, commenting on the professionalism, friendliness and reliability of our volunteers, and the way they engaged with their reader.

Useful feedback on changes we could make to our resources will be acted on for future programmes.

95%

of teachers rated their experience of working with our volunteers as ‘Excellent’ or ‘Good’

99%

of teachers felt 'Very Supported' or 'Supported' by the Bookmark team

“The volunteers have built great relationships with the children. Every single child has looked forward to each session and told me how they can’t wait to see their volunteer again.” Teacher at an online partner school

“The volunteers are so supportive and genuinely interested in each child; they offer encouragement and positive praise throughout the sessions.” Teacher at an online partner school

"I am a headteacher in a school that is supported by Bookmark. We have children that are supported by volunteers that probably have no idea what an amazing impact they have. The children thrive and look forward to their dedicated 1:1 sessions. Helping a child to read has an immeasurable impact." "I have noticed that the children's willingness to read is huge. I can see they are picking up more books to read at the library during their reading time and choosing which authors they want.”

"The pupils on our reading programmes can never usually sit and read for half an hour and enjoy it, they get distracted and disinterested, but on our online programmes the children are so engaged and don't want to log off!" "The children who took part have all been so enthusiastic and motivated to read. They ask me daily 'are we reading on the computers today?' and several children talk regularly and fondly of their volunteers."