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The aim of the Creative Mentor Foundation is to help make the arts curriculum at State Secondary Schools more accessible and rewarding for dyslexic and dyspraxic children.
Learning support tends to focus strongly on academic subjects but is also needed in the arts. Many dyslexic and dyspraxic children have enormous creative potential but, if they are not taught in a way that makes sense to them, they can lose interest and this potential is wasted. Learning to draw in perspective, read music or memorise a script, for example, can be particularly challenging for dyslexic and dyspraxic children. Creative Mentors can help.
Raise awareness among staff who teach creative subjects about the implications of working with young people who process information differently. Introduce them to specialist teaching methods that help dyslexic and dyspraxic children to engage and learn. Raise awareness about the possible advantages there are for dyslexic and dyspraxic people involved in the arts, precisely because they have the ability to think in unpredictable and original ways. Provide encouragement for dyslexic and dyspraxic children who have lost confidence in their ability, in both academic and creative subjects, because of their struggle with the school curriculum and the exam system. Provide role models who faced the same problems in their time at school but made their way through the system to educational and potential career success.
News and Views
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Mentors Blog
Nienke has created a blog to record her Creative Mentors project
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Work in progress with Creative Mentor Stuart Mccaffer