Hello

My first 5 years of teaching have taught me the power of learning through a fun, multisensory approach. Activities were always created with the children in mind and they demonstrated amazing progress in both their reading and spelling!

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Three things that I have found are MOST important when teaching:

1. Play - learning through play is a powerful tool, children learn best when happy and engaged. 

2. Use a multisensory approach - learning is more likely to be retained if several senses are used because you will create more connections in the brain - meaning you are working smarter, rather than harder!

3. Repetition - repetition will help move learning into long-term memory and improve automaticity! Repetition doesn't need to be boring, doing the same thing over and over again! It is closely linked to play -

“Scientists have recently determined that it takes approximately 400 repetitions to create a new synapse in the brain—unless it is done with play, in which case, it takes between 10 and 20 repetitions.”

Dr Karyn Purvis

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​Over the 15 years I was teaching, I worked with various children with different levels of need within a class, in groups, online and one-to-one. My interest in supporting children with different needs, my learning preferences and my two children's learning preferences, led me to complete my 'Supporting Learners with Specific Difficulties,' qualifications focusing on dyslexia and phonics. This gave me an in-depth understanding of research and programmes to support reading and spelling! This in turn led me to here....

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I aim to empower parents, guardians, teachers, and anyone who will listen that phonics, learning to read, learning to spell and just learning in general can be FUN! From experience and research,  using a fun and multisensory approach will increase children's confidence, and self-esteem and support them to make progress!