Daily Adventure now runs in French and Spanish as well as English. Each of the three is written natively. No translation step. A Spanish story is written in Spanish, with the rhythm and vocabulary a Spanish-speaking six-year-old would actually hear from a grandparent. Same for French.
This does not feel immediately relevant to a Somerset primary school until you talk to the teachers. One of the schools we have worked with has a Reception cohort where four out of thirty children have a home language that is not English. The nearest group is Polish-speaking. Another has a Portuguese-speaking handful. Most primary teachers in Somerset will tell you the percentages are creeping up year by year.
A child whose grandparents speak to them in one language at home and who gets read to exclusively in another at school ends up with a split reading life. The home language often comes with no books. The school language comes with every book the child has ever been asked to read aloud in a classroom. The two do not meet, and the home-language side quietly atrophies. Bilingual children with weak home-language literacy often go on to struggle with the school-language one too.
Story Seeds is not set up to donate books in Polish or Portuguese, and we are not trying to be. That is a different kind of charity to the one we are running. What Daily Adventure can now do, on a Yoto player a school may already have, is deliver part of a child's morning in their home language properly. French and Spanish to start, with more likely to follow on that side.
If you run a Somerset primary with bilingual pupils and you already use Yoto players, the Daily Adventure side of this is free to set up.
More on the Daily Adventure blog: Daily Adventure now speaks French and Spanish