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Winter's here!

• This website

  Over 4 years ago I started this website as an after school activity when I was at St Bede's Prep School in Eastbourne. We had an excellent IT department and we were taught how to make a website. I am not really quite sure why I made this one although I couldn't find a similar one so I thought I would have a go. I never dreamt that it would grow and become so successful. I have really enjoyed making and keeping up this website over the last 4 years but I am now trying to work out where to go from here. I know I am dyslexic and will always be but having had lots of help and support since I was 3 years old I feel that it is just not a big deal for me any more. The strategies that I have developed over the years work just fine and as long as I am given a little extra time to read things through and allowed to use my laptop I actually feel no different from anyone else and I am very lucky as I just do not need anything extra - I can just work with everyone else. I realise that I have been lucky to have had lots of help when I was young and that I have had the use of a laptop since I was 9 years old which has been brilliant for me. There are lots of people out there who have not been as lucky and I hope that this website will continue to help them get some ideas and strategies and that they realise that the future can be good. I am really just like anyone else, whether they are dyslexic or not, and have strengths and weaknesses - eg as well as being terrible at spelling I am also even worse at singing and drawing! Perhaps I have been lucky that I think I now know what my strengths and weaknesses are so that I can build on them. Everyone has strengths and it is just a question of finding them and not letting the weaknesses take over.

  
  
  
• The quizzes
  
  

  Starting in the new year I am going to change the quizzes. I will try something new. Rather than have 'Spelling' and 'Maths' quizzes I going to change them so that one is a general quiz but in basically the same format. The other one will be a difficult maths problem - I enjoy maths and I thought it would be interesting to have a very difficult challenge. I know that many dyslexic poeple are very talented and I thought that I should have a quiz for these people. What does anyone think? I will give it a go anyway and see how many entries I get. I know that I have been a bit slow at ptting on new quizzes lately but I have been very very busy. However the site is more or less up to date now I hope. If you have any ggod ideas please let me know. Please click here to email me

  
  
  
• The Success Stories and the Message Board
  
  

  I feel that these pages are probably the most important parts of the site as they belong to all the visitors. Please keep sending messages and telling all the other visitors your success stories - I always check them out before I put them on and I never include anyone's email address. Please click here to send a message or please click here to send a sucess story

  
  
  
• My Software
  
  

  I was very excited to have my software accepted by curriculum on line. This means that it is now government approved and is avalable to schools who can use their 'eLearning' credits to buy it. Please do take a look at the titles that I have.

  
  
  
• My old Newsletters
  

  I still have my last newsletters and they can be read by clicking here. Also if you remember I used to have a news page, well I have put these back on, so please click here to go to them.