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Environment
- All teaching and learning take place in the context of Accessible and Dyslexia Friendly Classrooms approaches
- Children’s progress is screened and monitored. Support is identified and quickly and without the need for any formal diagnosis.
- There is a whole-school ethos of inclusion and adaptation across all staff.
- Visuals are used throughout the school, to support children with reading difficulty.
- Talking Tins are used on displays to allow children to access the information recorded there. A Talking Tin is a device you can record and playback your voice messages between 20 and 40 seconds long. They can be used for phonics, matching, sequencing, and sentence building.
- Children can fully participate in all school and wider school community events and activities.
- All teaching input considers potential language and attention needs and is adapted accordingly.
- There are effective information-sharing systems and clarity and communication over roles and responsibilities relating to support structures.
- Children can carry out learning tasks in a low-arousal environment.
- As children move through KS2 and into secondary school, they are taught how to use assistive technology as needed and this is available within the classroom.
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