The London borough of Hackney Council has today launched a scheme hoping to get more school kids interested in the works of Charles Dickens. The scheme, the first of its kind for the UK, will see local schools supplied with a range of books of the 19th Century author with which they can “read” sections, or “chapters”, of with the children before discussing the work in a classroom based joint learning experience.
Seven Hackney schools have agreed to trial the initiative with the costs of meeting the books being part funded by money put aside for the councils’ 2012 Olympic Games cake fund. The head of Recursive Involvement Studies at St Jude’s secondary school, Anne Thomas, explained that despite the lack of celebrity involvement the school is still upbeat about the scheme; “We had a few of the Arsenal reserves in last month to talk about trigonometry and it was really positive; all the kids got to meet someone who might end up sleeping with someone blonde from whatever show replaces Big Brother next year, and no one was stabbed that day either. Hopefully this will be just as successful and if we’re lucky we might even be able to get Dickens in himself to play games with year 8 or discourage blatant methadrone use within school time.”
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