CHILDREN are brushing up their reading skills with the help of BT's School Friends - volunteers who are visiting three Blackburn primary schools.
BT volunteers are working with the Blackburn Partnership scheme to help improve literacy skills at Griffin Park Primary School, St Luke and St Philip's CE Primary School and St Anne's RC Primary School.
A BT spokesman said: "BT School Friends are released from the workplace to spend at least one hour per week working alongside teachers in the classroom, providing one to one help and encouragement to primary age children learning to read and write."
More than 300 BT staff all over Britain have volunteered for the new scheme and are being trained by the Community Service Volunteers organisation.
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