Wednesday the 8th of October 2025 was World Dyslexia Day. Dyslexia is a learning difference that can cause difficulties with learning and work. It affects approximately 1 in 10. It occurs on a spectrum with some people mildly affected and others more severely. With the right understanding, accommodations and support people with dyslexia can achieve success in education, the workplace and in wider society.

Everyone with dyslexia is different but there is a commonality of difficulties with reading, spelling and writing and related cognitive/processing difficulties. Dyslexia is not a general difficulty with learning, it impacts specific skill areas. While people with dyslexia may develop strengths due to their dyslexia such as determination, problem solving and resilience. It doesn’t affect intelligence and it is not a disease or an illness – it is a condition that someone is born with. Some people learn special techniques to help them to live with dyslexia on their own, while others might need special support to help them do this.

We have lots of children in our school who have received a diagnosis of dyslexia.