Dyslexia Specialist School Sevenoaks Kent

I am writing this not just as a teacher, but also as someone who every parents’ evening (all the way up to the fifth form) was told that she needed to improve her handwriting! I also find that, as a parent, handwriting is one of my children’s biggest challenges. Before a child can develop good handwriting, however, there are certain pre-requisite skills that need to be acquired. I have listed some of these below, with ideas of how to support your child if they have difficul

Since meeting, Abby and I have shared lots of stories about how we ended up as specialist teachers, many of them involving our siblings, children and my father and his 5 brothers. We have discussed how we have supported our families over the years and how some of those strategies have now become the ‘tricks’ of our trade! There have been several occasions when Abby has said that she thought that she may be dyslexic due to things that she finds challenging, including direction

A free school is a type of academy: free to attend, non-profit making and independent from local authority control. Free schools are funded directly by central government and have more control over how they do things. They are exempt from teaching the National Curriculum and have greater control over teachers’ pay and the length of school terms and days. 374 free schools in England have opened and the Conservative government has pledged to open 500 more by 2020. The hope is t