Dyslexia Friendly Schools Support

(Managed by Medway Dyslexia Association)

Every Child Matters outcomes met:

• enjoying and achieving

Schools that are or have been involved with the project:  Bligh Junior, Brompton Westbrook, Cuxton Community Junior, Fairview Infants, Gordon Junior, Kingfisher Community Primary, New Road Primary, Robert Napier Secondary, Twydall Infant, Twydall Junior, Walderslade Primary, Wayfield Primary, Spinnens Acre Community College, Hempstead Infants, Ridge Meadow Primary ,Elaine Primary, Sherwin Knight Infant, St Peter's Infant, St Margaret's at Troy Town, St William of Perth, St Nicholas Infant, The Thomas Aveling, Balfour Infant, St James' CE Primary, English Martyrs' Catholic, Luton Junior. Minster College and Minster CP School on the Isle of Sheppey heard of the Medway project and have also joined. 

Dyslexics process information differently and therefore need to be taught in an appropriate way. Support has been supplied to 59 schools, including INSET training (1019 teachers and Learning Support Assistants trained ), consultations and use of the Resource Centre and help lines, helping to prevent problems going from learning difference to learning difficulty. A Dyslexia Friendly Classroom Check List has been developed for use in schools within the project.

The number of children identified as dyslexic/on the register increased from 85 before the project started in 2002, to 157 at March 2008. All schools involved report improved self-esteem of children receiving support.

In January 2008, 75 people attended the project’s successful “Inclusion for All through Dyslexia Friendly Methods” conference. Medway Dyslexia Association will be following up with those schools where representatives needed more information or support and also with those schools that have not participated in the project. The Learning Support Service ran one of the workshops and further work with them is planned to continue the Dyslexia Friendly Schools Support Project.

The strategy will be to sustain through schools buying in support. Work already undertaken will provide a legacy for the future and the project is actively looking to expand into Kent.

Impact Evaluation(74KB)