Pori Drwy Stori
Pori Drwy Stori is an exciting bilingual programme for Nursery and Reception aged children in Wales, aimed at developing their literacy, numeracy, speaking and listening skills to support Foundation Learning.
About Pori Drwy Stori
The programme provides resources to use in the classroom and at home encouraging parents to continue in their vital role as partners in their children’s learning. Pori Drwy Stori has been made available through Adnodd, sponsored by the Welsh Government.
Pori Drwy Stori Nursery
Pori Drwy Stori inspires a love of books, stories and rhymes and supports children to develop speaking, listening and numeracy skills at home and in the setting.
Nurseries can register for the Pori Drwy Stori programme every year via our online portal. Information will appear on this page when registrations are open. Settings will begin receiving their programme resources in January and March for the Spring and Summer terms.
Pori Drwy Stori Nursery Evaluation 2018–19
Key messages and summary of the independent evaluation of Pori Drwy Stori Nursery (oracy) programme in relation to its three specific aims:
- To improve oracy-related outcomes for children;
- To increase parents’/carers’ engagement with their child’s learning, specifically in relation to activities which support oracy outcomes; and
- To increase practitioners’ knowledge and understanding of, and practice relating to, how they can improve oracy outcomes for children, especially by engaging parents and carers.
Pori Drwy Stori Reception
The Pori Drwy Stori Reception programme is a bilingual programme for Reception-aged children (4–5 year olds) with a range of abilities. It builds upon the popular Bookstart programme, which is aimed at younger children.
Pori Drwy Stori is delivered to all maintained schools in Wales with no sign-up necessary.
The programme provides physical and digital resources, to be used by the Reception teacher in the classroom environment and to be used at home by children and their parents and carers.
The aim of the programme
The aim is to raise standards in literacy and numeracy and promote parental engagement, supporting Foundation Learning in the following Areas of Learning and Experience: Language, Literature and Communication, Mathematics and Numeracy and Health and Wellbeing.
Supporting the curriculum
Encouraging home school links
Class activities
Useful information
No – Pori Drwy Stori has been made available through Adnodd, sponsored by the Welsh Government. All maintained schools in Wales are eligible and will receive the Reception programme automatically. No sign up is necessary.
Your school/setting will receive two deliveries per academic year.
- In September you will receive the Autumn Term resources.
- In January you will receive the Spring and Summer term resources.
Pori Drwy Stori packs are intended for all Reception-aged children to use in the classroom as well as to take home and share with family and friends.
We have enough resources for Reception-aged children (4- to 5‑years-old) and cannot provide packs for any other year groups or purposes. This means we cannot provide packs for Nursery or Year 1 children, even if these classes are mixed with Reception, or we risk running out of packs.
Schools should receive enough resources for all the children who are expected to start Reception this school year. We ask that teachers store any spare resources needed for further intakes or for new arrivals during the school year and give them to new Reception children only.
Should you require any further information or support regarding the programme please send your query to [email protected] and we’ll respond as soon as we can.
Pori Drwy Stori for families
We hope that your family will enjoy taking part in Pori Drwy Stori and will have fun together sharing a love of books, stories and rhymes.
Using your library
Your local library will be able to give you lots of ideas and advice about great books to support your child’s learning. Libraries are open to everyone and are free to join, and books are free to borrow too and libraries no longer charge late fees for children’s books.
Welsh Government initiatives
The Welsh Government’s Education Begins at Home group provides information on how you can support your child at home and help their performance in school. Follow the group on Facebook.
