{"id":434,"date":"2012-07-12T13:30:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T13:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/deputy-crowe-welcomes-launch-of-summer-reading-programme\/"},"modified":"2012-07-12T13:30:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T13:30:24","slug":"deputy-crowe-welcomes-launch-of-summer-reading-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/deputy-crowe-welcomes-launch-of-summer-reading-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Crowe welcomes launch of Summer Reading Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Deputy Crowe welcomes launch of Summer Reading Programme<\/strong><\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Sinn F\u00e9in Education Spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe, TD, has welcomed this week\u2019s launch of the Summer Reading Programme at Stillorgan Library in Dublin.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">Deputy Crowe said: \u201cThe Summer Reading Programme runs in public libraries every July and August and it is a reading event that is open to children of all ages and abilities. <\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">\u201cIt is important children are given every encouragement to read books and the Summer Reading Programme allows them to keep a record of their progress. Those children who meet the challenge will receive a certificate at the end of the summer. <\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">\u201cOne of the most important challenges facing our current education sector is the need to address the alarming fall in literacy and numeracy rates and any initiative that helps encourages reading is to welcomed.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">\u201cIt is vitally important that children learn the basics of literacy and numeracy at a young age as these are key skills for doing well at school and later in life.<\/span> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\">\u201cLast year the Summer Reading Programme encouraged thousands of children to read books and across the State, hundreds of libraries and mobile libraries are involved in this year\u2019s programme.<\/span> <br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><br \/> \u201cIn my own constituency of Dublin South West there are a number of fantastic libraries that are modern, child friendly and equipped with wonder facilities. This scheme provides families with have an opportunity to see what other events and facilities are available in their local library and they can enjoy Internet access, storytime, bookclubs and many other events in these very important amenities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Crowe welcomes launch of Summer Reading Programme Sinn F\u00e9in Education Spokesperson Se\u00e1n Crowe, TD, has welcomed this week\u2019s launch of the Summer Reading Programme at Stillorgan Library in Dublin. Deputy Crowe said: \u201cThe Summer Reading Programme runs in public libraries every July and August and it is a reading event that is open to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}