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Dyslexia Awareness Week

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Once again we are celebrating ‘Dyslexia Awareness Week‘ this week in the school. Mrs Cross led a whole school assembly last week all about ‘Neurodiversity’ and how children with Dyslexia are supported within the school.

The P5-7 classes will also be completing some activities regarding Dyslexia and will be putting away their pens for ‘No Pens Wednesday’.

We use Glow in school and embedded within Glow is Immersive Reader which is a very handy tool for children with Dyslexia. Here is the link if you are interested in having a look:

Immersive Reader

In school we also use the Nessy Spelling and Reading programme with all of our Primary 4 and Primary 5 children. Some of our Primary 6 and 7 children continue accessing the programme if they need to.

IT is used throughout the school to support our children with Dyslexia. We have Chromebooks, laptops and iPads which the children access to help with their learning.

All children from P3-7 participate in the STAR reading programme and have library books linked to their reading age to allow them to read for pleasure independently. Last session we became a Reading School following all of the efforts we have made to develop a love of reading with our children. We have purchased specific books for our Dyslexic children which are located in a section of our library.

Digital Schools Award

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Mrs Cross, Miss Gill and the Digital Committee are delighted to announce the achievement of our Digital Schools Award. We had our validation meeting this morning which confirmed our hard work and effort had all been worth it!

We will continue to strive towards new goals within Digital Learning and we are all excited about what lies ahead for the coming sessions.

Reading Schools Award

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Mauchline PS & ECC are delighted to announce our core-level achievement in becoming a Reading School.
The Reading Schools programme, developed by Scottish Book Trust, is an accreditation programme for schools that are committed to building a reading culture for their learners and communities. The programme supports schools to build a reading culture, where every pupil is encouraged to feed their imagination through books.
As a school, we have worked tirelessly all session to achieve our award through the hard work of Mrs Cross’s Reading Committee (part of the Inclusive Friendly Schools Committee), with the help and support of all of our children and staff. Reading for pleasure is central to supporting wellbeing, improving attainment across the curriculum, and boosting critical thinking, creativity, empathy and resilience and we have always aimed to have books and reading for enjoyment as a key element within Mauchline PS & ECC.
We are looking forward to adding all of our new books into the school library and continuing on with our aim of embedding a love of reading within our school.

More Extreme Readers

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Evie reading in the bath – no water thankfully! 🛀
Anna in P4 and Molly in P2 reading their Beano comics to the cows – let’s hope it’s aMOOsing! 🐮
Molly and Anna relaxing on the hay bales, enjoying their Beano comics.
Carly from P4 reading up a tree! 🌳
Carly in P4 to her dog, Willow, looks like she’s definitely enjoying the story! 🐶 📖

Extreme Reading

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The whole school are participating in an Extreme Reading challenge set by the Reading Schools Committee. Take a photograph of your child reading a book in a strange/unusual setting and send it to MRs Cross:

susan.cross1@eastayrshire.org.uk

Here is our first Extreme Reader!

Hollie in P2 on her trampoline having fun with her book.

Hollie hanging upside down! What a talented girl.