Get Your Copy Right: National Literacy Trust and ALCS team up for new copyright education programme
ALCS is delighted to be working with The National Literacy Trust (NLT) on a new education programme which aims to teach students about copyright in a creative way. In 'Get Your Copy Right", a programme aimed at KS2 and KS3 children, students are asked to think about a local attraction or activity and create a high quality promotional guide or pamphlet to encourage people to visit it. The...
ALCS is delighted to be working with The National Literacy Trust (NLT) on a new education programme which aims to teach students about copyright in a creative way.
In ‘Get Your Copy Right”, a programme aimed at KS2 and KS3 children, students are asked to think about a local attraction or activity and create a high quality promotional guide or pamphlet to encourage people to visit it. The resource encourages them to develop their writing skills and takes them through all the same preparatory stages a professional writer would expect to go through, including research, finding the appropriate tone of voice, carrying out interviews, organizing information and research, sourcing images, and crucially, thinking about copyright and keeping notes on sources.
The National Literacy Trust is an independent charity working to raise UK literacy levels through community literacy projects, and in schools. It also campaigns and lobbies Government on various issues surrounding literacy. Its impact report shows an impressive reach: in 2015/16 the NLT supported more than 100,000 children in 6,453 schools through its literacy programmes. During that time more than 566,000 visitors used its website for literary resources, tools, research and news.
The NLT also regularly carries out important research to help build a picture of literacy levels and how they link with access to resources. Its most recent report. ‘School Libraries: A literature review of current provision and evidence of impact’ showed that school libraries play a very important role in contributing to pupils’ success, but that budget cuts are potentially affecting their effectiveness. The NLT also recently published a report into writing for enjoyment.
ALCS is therefore delighted to be working with the National Literacy Trust on ‘Get Your Copy Right’ to help further its work.
