Welcome to Move4words^®

not-for-profit School Literacy Support Programme

For poor readers, our results show average rate of progress in literacy almost doubles, and reading age improves at 5 times the national average rate!

Move4words is a whole-class video-based movement intervention for children from KS2,

taking under 15 minutes daily, for 12 weeks.

It is very easy for teachers to use,

great value for money, and with proven results! Developed by Dr Buffy McClelland.

Great outcomes when schools use Move4words

School tracking data suggest that children's rate of progress in literacy in KS2 can almost double after Move4words. SATs results go up, too.  Most children seem to benefit, but poor readers improve the most, narrowing the gap in literacy.

On average, poor readers improve their reading age by 5 months per month with our whole-class programme and reading speed goes up by 20%!

Move4words is really inclusive, as all children in the class take part.

"This is the second year that I've used Move4words with my Year 4 class. The children have really enjoyed the new material this year... We're planning to use it again next year in Year 4....."

Walter Bayer, Year 4 teacher, St Andrew's C of E Primary School, Headington, Oxford.

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If you've just heard about our new literacy programme, you might not know how to spell the name. It's not Move Forwards, nor Move for words, but Move4words

Easy for teachers and children to follow

The main target years are Years 4 and 6.

Delivery is extremely easy, all exercises are modelled by children in videos for pupils to follow, in a clear, day-by-day and week-by-week DVD format.

Move4words only takes 10 to 15 minutes per day for 12 weeks. Developed by Dr Buffy McClelland in collaboration with many UK primary schools.

"The Move4words programme is motivating and really easy to follow for both the children and the teacher.... "

Grace Slater, Deputy Head, Orchard Meadow Primary, Blackbird Leys, Oxford.

We have made the training and teachers manual as simple as possible to use, the manual is only four small pages long as the video material is almost completely self-explanatory.

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What's new about Move4words?

Move4words is a low-priced classroom sensory training intervention developed by Dr Buffy McClelland designed to help the brain pay more attention to learning.

Great value for money - typical costs are £4 per pupil for the first year, and 85p per pupil thereafter!

Move4words is a completely new approach to maximizing the benefits of your teaching. The not-for-profit programme adds to your current literacy strategy in KS2, but does not replace it.

We find that when children learn concentration skills with carefully crafted simple physical activities, their literacy and learning improves, too.

Our main focus is in areas of deprivation, but we are happy to work with any school in the UK.

See more about the background to Move4words:

Read about Move4words in the Press.

The Times Educational Supplement:

TES magazine 20th April 2012 (online)

Article by Helen Ward

Article in the Oxford Mail 17th March 2012 online

"Project helps more to read" by Fran Bardsley

Article in the Wigan Observer 24th April 2012 (not online)

"Pupils take part in new programme" by Andrew Edgeworth

Article in the Wigan Evening Post 26th April 2012 (not online)

"Learning to read? It's comma sensory" by Andrew Edgeworth

Support from our Patron: Professor Tim Brighouse

Former London Schools Commissioner and Professor of Education at Keele University:

"I am hugely impressed with the (Move4words) technique, and Buffy's philosophy and approach"

See Tim's open letter to head teachers here

Thoroughly tested in UK schools

Developed by Dr Buffy McClelland, Move4words has been in development since 2006, and is fully tested by teachers for ease of use and effectiveness.

See the results of schools trials on reading here.

Long-term benefits

Reading continues to improve after the end of the intervention, with gains doubling after 6 months.

Exam performance is enhanced, too, with average long-term gains of a complete GCSE grade

See how to book your training session for Move4words

Real improvement seen by teachers and children

"My year 6 class concentrated much better in tests, and their reading was far more fluent and confident"

Carmel Isherwood, Year 6 teacher, Gilded Hollins Primary School, Leigh, Lancs.

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Verbal feedback from children after M4W:

"I can read much faster now" - Year 3 boy;

"I can now focus much more on work in class" - Year 4 boy;

"I've moved up three boxes in reading in only 10 weeks!" - Year 5 girl;

"Move4words makes me feel calmer" - Year 6 boy.

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OfSTED

“We had HMI here last week, and they loved it (Move4words)!”

Lisa Biggin, Headteacher, John Henry Newman Primary School, Littlemore, Oxford.

See how to use Move4words in schools

Where does M4W come from?

Move4words was developed in active collaboration with classroom teachers by Dr Buffy McClelland (PhD), former University Lecturer at Oxford University.

See more about the origin of Move4words.