Building a Reading Community

Alison Tarrant is a participant on the CTSN & Institute of Education Project ‘How do we know it works?’. Alison, a librarian at Cambourne Village College, is researching how to encourage reading in schools, and ideas about how to move forward.

Alison Tarrant

Librarian

Cambourne Village College

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