A strong partnership has developed between Reiche Community School and Waynflete School. More than 60 students from Waynflete, a private school located in Portland’s West End, visit Reiche, a public school in the same neighborhood, each week. Through a program called The Story Boost Project, the older Waynflete students read to Reiche kindergarten students to help foster a love of reading.
The program has been growing over the past six years. In addition to inspiring students to read, friendships between students from the two schools also are forged.
PHOTO CAPTION: Tabarak Al Musawi from Waynflete (who is a former Reiche student) reading to Reiche kindergartners.