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The Five Minute Box was designed within school settings to fulfil several purposes:
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To screen all children on entering school at age 5 to ensure that none 'slip through the net' and to provide baseline data for school records.
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To provide an easy to manage teaching system for any child who needed extra time to learn or to consolidate basic skills, managed by an LSA for a few minutes a day.
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To ensure that any child who may turn out to be dyslexic has had multi-sensory teaching for 2 years rather than waiting to be diagnosed and then having to start from the beginning again.
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To work alongside any phonic reading and spelling scheme already in place in school
Most importantly, it is a system that children engage in with the utmost enthusiasm, taking ownership of their learning and progressing from the very first time they open the Box |
