Literacy & Numeracy
What’s the evidence?
25 years! EducAid has spent 25 years learning, working, striving to improve and finding out what works to improve the quality of the education it offers the young Sierra Leoneans it works with. After 25 years, we are now leading the education improvement conversation and action with others in Sierra Leone as part of the…
Read MoreEducAid’s First Term of 2018-19 Highlights
It’s been a great first term at EducAid. All EducAid schools were eager to share some highlights from the term which we have compiled below. Thank you for all you have done to support our work this term. We wish you all a wonderful holiday season and New Year. Maronka Primary School reports that pupils…
Read MoreLiteracy Skills for Sierra Leone in 21st Century
To what extent do you believe the literacy skills required for a new world will be more or less the same as they were before? Will new literate practices need to be generated and does that mean that new literacies be required? If so, what do you think these new literacies will be and how…
Read MoreWhat is the QEP?
As a follower of EducAid you may have heard about the QEP, our Quality Enhancement Programme, but you may not know exactly what it encompasses. In this blog post I hope to give you an introduction to what is our biggest reaching programme yet. Fundamentally, the QEP works with schools around the country to train…
Read MoreHow do we do a better job of cultivating young readers?
In an increasingly screen-filled western world, we have seen the obvious love of books dying off for some decades among the younger generations. My own father claimed to have seen a massive rise in average reading ages among the children he was teaching since the arrival of the television in the average British living room. …
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