North Lanarkshire news

Marnie Hamilton from North Lanarkshire Council told us, “The senior leadership team at Kirk o'Shotts Primary School are ensuring that children with dyslexia are supported in a number of ways.

• We have brought in colleagues to support two of our dyslexic pupils to feel more confident in their use of technology.

• We’ve timetabled twice weekly support with our cluster resource teacher to support three pupils increase their confidence and ability at using Clicker and speech-to-text.

• We work with the educational psychologist to increase our understanding of dyslexia and actively seek to closely monitor pupils we or parents have concerns about to ensure early intervention.

• We have worked with a learning support teacher from another school who share good practice that we now use.

• We use reading buddies, decodable texts and Nessy.

• We hold assemblies about neurodivergence.

This is helping to increase confidence, improve motivation, increase teachers' understanding and normalise dyslexia.” ►