Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE)

About Us
The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education is a UK based children's literacy charity working with primary schools. Our work raises the achievement of children's reading and writing by helping schools to teach literacy creatively and effectively, putting quality children’s books at the heart of all learning. We offer courses at our literacy library in central London, deliver online training and provide a wide range of free teaching resources for Primary teachers. We also conduct research into all areas of primary literacy, using the findings to inform practice and contribute to national and international perspectives on literacy.

Our Vision

At CLPE we want to raise the literacy achievement of children by putting quality children’s literature at the heart of all learning.

Our Mission

We want to improve the life chances of children by ensuring that every child has access to quality experiences of literacy and that all teachers have the knowledge and resources to support children to become confident, happy and enthusiastic readers and writers, with all the benefits this brings.

What do we do?

We are a small independent charity with a national and international reputation, a huge purpose and the potential to reach thousands of children. We provide well evidenced, creative, literacy training and support for primary school teachers and others that work in primary schools. We produce high quality resources to support classroom teaching and learning and work to ensure that as many schools as possible have access to the best knowledge, research and materials to help them use quality children’s literature to raise children’s achievement. We conduct and develop research to influence and inform practice, pedagogy and policy in literacy. We build capacity and subject knowledge by supporting schools and teachers to put research into practice, developing their teaching and learning to improve outcomes for children.