THE Reading Campaign supported and promoted by Oxfordshire County Council, the Oxford Mail and others, is having some effect on the students in Key Stage One in our primary schools.

The results rightly celebrated (September 20) are Key Stage Two results. These are a result of the work done over the last few years in our primary schools as a direct result of the response by our schools to the disappointing reading levels in 2010.

Schools have not been sitting on their hands until the recent initiative by those mentioned but have been working hard with their students since 2010. Hence the greatly improved Key Stage Two results. The work in place due to this recent initiative will bear fruit in a few years and be rightly celebrated then.

I just hope that the volunteers recruited now will be still in school then to receive the recognition they will justly deserve.

This is my third year volunteering with Assisted Reading for Children, ARCh.

In fact I was in school yesterday and the scene was typical of most of my sessions in my school, me with one of my three students, a teaching assistant and at least one volunteer parent all working with students reading.

This is why over the last few years we have seen the improvements we celebrate today.

The five per cent improvements in reading levels we celebrate today are across all primary schools in Oxfordshire, which goes to show that all schools have been working hard on these improvements and for any single entity to try to accept credit for this is just unfair.

It is a combined effort over many years of parents, TAs, ARCh volunteers, teachers, members of the Reading Campaign, senior management in schools and the LEA all working together.

Let us all hope that the Reading Campaign and the funding that has come with it will continue for many years to come, but I fear that my hopes might be misplaced. If I am correct we need to ensure that all this excellent work and all that goes with it is not lost.

JIM YOUNG Blythe Place Bicester