Please sponsor the team undertaking the Three Peaks Challenge in June 2026 in aid of Food for Thought. Their planned schedule is Tuesday 23rd 6am to 11am Ben Nevis and 5pm to 9pm Scafell Pike then Wednesday 24th 2am to 6am Snowdon.
The full team is Steve Keen (Stantec Taunton), Andy Johns (Stantec Taunton), Sam Harper (Stantec Taunton and Bristol), Alex Paul (Stantec Bristol), Thomas Errington (Stantec Taunton and Exeter)
The money raised will go towards training 4 Ugandan teachers to be Phonics Trainers. Total cost of this programme is £4600 which includes fees and Phonics Training Manuals while training with Read for Life and the subsequent training of 3 early years teachers from 46 schools.
Please donate online through CAF https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/30516 or by cheque made out to ‘Devon Development Education. Sponsored Run’, and post to DDE, Exeter Community Centre, 17 St David’s Hill, Exeter, EX4 3RG.
Introducing Phonics Teaching to Food For Thought (FFT) schools in Mubende District, Uganda.
When head teachers visit primary schools in Devon, they are very impressed by the phonics method of teaching reading.
So we want to train four Ugandan teachers to be Phonics Trainers. We want to send them to be trained by Read for Life Uganda, an ngo whose sole purpose is to train teachers to use phonics. Read for Life has adapted resources for the Ugandan context, where a class may have 100 or more pupils.
After training, these Phonics Trainers will work with the 46 FFT schools in Mubende and Kassanda, training Early Years teachers of years 1, 2 and 3 to use phonics. This will have a long-term impact on the pupils for many years.
Total cost of this programme is £4600. This includes fees, Phonics Training Manuals and other resources, transport and accommodation in Gulu for 4 weeks, for 4 people, while training with Read for Life. £2600. Training of 3 early years teachers from 46 schools, running 3 workshops for each teacher during the year, repeated for two more years initially. £2000.
Details of previous phonics work in Ugandan schools can be found at Teaching Phonics – DDE