What Can We Offer Your School?
Literacy and special needs consultancy
Kim Smith has worked in private, state and independent schools for over 20 year as a literacy advisor, assessor, trainer and teacher. She is dedicated to helping pupils unlock the world of words and increase their self-confidence to explore and express their own personality and reach their full potential. Kim can assist your school in the following areas:
- Whole staff dyslexia-friendly classroom training.
- Teaching assistants and SENCO workshops exploring intervention strategies.
- Individual student assessments and reports.
- Observation and feedback of children in the classroom environment.
- Exam access arrangement testing.
- Tutoring.
Teaching
We also teach individual and small groups intervention classes (maximum 4 pupils).
Training
We offer training tailored to the needs of your school in the following areas:
- Dyslexia-friendly classrooms.
- Reading interventions.
- Spelling programmes.
- Reluctant writers.
- Handwriting.
- Phonics.
- How to identify children with specific learning difficulties: dyslexia, dyscalculia and dyspraxia, and ADHD.
- How to support children with working memory difficulties in mainstream and intervention classes.
- Ways to support special needs children using auditory processing techniques.
Training can be delivered during Twilight sessions, half or full days.
What next?
Please get in touch with us for a no obligation discussion to go over your options and to arrange an assessment if required: