Termly targets are set for each pupil and progress carefully monitored.
The teaching methods used in the Unit are centred on a structured, cumulative
multi‑sensory approach to learning, a systematic teaching of written language
using visual, auditory and kinaesthetic sensory channels. A School Advisory Plan is
also drawn up summarising the pupil’s strengths and areas of difficulty and to offer
hints and ideas for additional strategies to support the pupil in the classroom situation.
As well as having a team of fully qualified dyslexia specialists, the Dyslexia Unit also
offers support via our own Target Reading and Target Numeracy schemes as well as
classroom based support throughout the school.
The emphasis is on an holistic teaching approach aiming at improving
essential skills while increasing self-esteem, self- confidence and motivation.
To this end the teaching within the unit, in common with whole school policy,
incorporates the principles of Accelerated Learning, Learning Styles Analysis and
Multiple Intelligence Profiling. We believe that an understanding of how pupils learn
is fundamental to effective learning. This is explored further in Lower III (Y4) and
in Remove (Y7) when the pupils take a Study Skills course with an external trainer.
Part of this course focuses on interpreting and applying the results of a detailed
Learning Styles Analysis which the pupils complete on-line in advance of the course.
The school is an organisational member of the BDA and a member of NASEN, and is
inspected every three years by CReSTeD (The Council for the Registration of Schools
Teaching Dyslexic Pupils), and has been consistently highly rated under the category DU.
The Summary of the last CReSTeD report states:
“Mayville is an excellent school. Its ethos is commendable and it is rare to see such happy staff
and happy pupils. It is well led and the management have ensured that the school has a superb
reputation locally.The Dyslexia Unit is run by an experienced team who have had considerable
success with their pupils, and have ensured an unusually high awareness of the individual
problems of the dyslexic pupils amongst the rest of the staff. This school is recommended for
re-registration without any reservation.”
“It has been wonderful to watch my daughter
change into a happy confident child”
Parent
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