Help Kids Read

'One in five children leaves primary school

in the UK unable to read properly.'

That's a shocking statistic!

If you are interested to learn more about encouraging your child to read have a look at Channel 4's excellent site Lost for Words. Synthetic Phonics are the latest buzzwords in Literacy these days and there's an excellent guide to read and download. There's also an opportunity to watch a video of the excellent documentary 'Dispatches: Why our children can't read'. Lost for Words is packed full of interesting information, celebrity snippets, videos, a forum and favourite books - have a look when you have a moment, it really is worth it.

If you'd like to purchase a book for your child's class or the school library, please click on the link below. By purchasing through Amazon, you help us raise money for our school at no extra cost to you.

George's Secret Key to the Universe

This book is going to be a hugely popular this Christmas.

Written by the eminent scientist Stephen Hawking and his daughter Lucy Hawking, this is a children's book with a difference. It's a hugely entertaining adventure about a boy called George and his new neighbours Eric, Annie and a supercomputer called Cosmos. Great storytelling is combined with real facts and stunning pictures of space, the universe and ...well everything starry!

A super introduction for young and old alike to the worlds beyond ours!

If you'd like to buy a copy, click on the picture below - remember all your shopping here on the Friends of English Martyrs Blog helps to raise money for our school.

Shop with FEM and raise cash for our school

In our constant efforts to keep up to date with technology, Friends of English Martyrs are proud to announce our very own Online Store!

In association with the retail giant Amazon, we've made raising cash for our school even easier!! At the bottom of this blog you'll see a virtual shop window. We've selected some books to whet your appetite but you can use the search facility and/or categories to find exactly what you're looking for.

You don't pay any more than you would do buying from Amazon but this way the school earns a commission for every sale made .... Easy Peasy!

So tell your friends, family and neighbours to log on to our blog and help us help our school.

Alternatively, click here http://astore.amazon.co.uk/englishmartyrs-21 to shop.

We'll keep you posted with news about how much money we've raised through the Store.

Any questions? Please get in touch if you have any queries or feedback about our Online Store.