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IDL Spring Newsletter

26/03/19

Welcome to the IDL Spring Newsletter. With the new financial year upon us and SATs just around the corner, this is a great time to introduce IDL Literacy & Numeracy into your school: Invaluable for teaching the Curriculum for Excellence and SNSA testing.

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Customer service is always a priority here at IDL and we aim to provide the best support available for pupils with low level literacy and mathematical ability. As a result of this, we are offering FREE school demonstrations of both IDL Literacy and IDL Numeracy for the rest of the academic year. Please contact us at [email protected] for further information, or to arrange a demo.


 

New School Budgets…Get Value for Money with IDL!

It’s that time of year again as you receive the budget for the next financial year in school, and the need to juggle competing priorities and make money stretch further has come round once more. Read More!


 

NEW IDL 2 – Literacy Intervention 

We are happy to announce that we have updated our literacy and specialist dyslexia support software, IDL Literacy. Some of the new features include advanced ways to monitor student’s progress and an in built assistant to further minimise the need for one-to-one support. This also includes our new app for the iPad and for Android devices.  Please click here for further information or to request a FREE Trial.


 

IDL Literacy Case Study

Stars of channel 4’s Educating Greater Manchester – Harrop Fold School explain the positive impact IDL Literacy has on their pupils with dyslexia and lower level literacy ability.



 

Famous Faces – Did you know?

Henry Winkler is an actor, director and author who has dyslexia and difficulty with maths. On Happy Days, he played “The Fonz,” a role so iconic that his character’s jacket now hangs in the Smithsonian. Winkler also visits schools to talk about learning issues. To honour his educational work, the Queen of England made him an Honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2011.


 

We Need You – Something New for 2019!

We are currently seeking schools to participate in local Twilight/Cluster Sessions, where the hosting school will invite schools in the local authority to attend the session.  IDL Literacy & IDL Numeracy will be demonstrated, along with Q&A session for you to ask your Interventions Adviser anything at all.  In return we will provide the hosting school with sandwiches, cakes, biscuits and refreshments for the session.  If you are interested in hosting a session, please contact 01524 580665 and we will put you in contact with your Interventions Adviser.

 


 

IDL Literacy and IDL Numeracy provide a time-saving and cost-effective way to support students with low level literacy and numeracy ability. Our programmes fulfil the needs of students across the UK and provide tutors with easy to access and simple ways to monitor progress, giving you peace of mind that IDL is working effectively.  IDL is great value for money! The costs for multi-user site licences for IDL which includes home access as well as access on iPad and Android devices are as follows:

This represents a huge saving on cost in comparison to our competitors.

Look out for further updates on our free training sessions and webinars in our future Newsletters!

 


 

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We're exhibiting at the CST SEND and Inclusion Conference next week. ⭐

Make sure to visit our stand to learn more about our Award-winning literacy and numeracy programmes as well as our brand new Phonics programme! 

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Did you know our new Phonics programme has a multisensory learning approach 🙌

The programme incorporates a wide range of multisensory activities to strengthen retention, engagement and understanding, including: 

⭐Animated instructional videos
⭐Colour-coded graphemes, digraphs and trigraphs
⭐Speech recognition to support blending
⭐On-screen tracing and handwriting recognition
⭐Tap-the-sound phoneme sequencing
....and much more! 

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🌎Happy Earth Day! 🌎

This year’s theme, “Our Power, Our Planet,” is all about the impact our everyday actions can have on the world around us.

Whether it’s planting seeds, embracing renewable energy, or simply picking up litter, small actions really do add up to make a big difference.
We’re not just caring for the planet today, we’re protecting it for future generations… including the pupils in your classroom! 💚

Plus, getting outside isn’t just good for the Earth, it’s great for us too! Fresh air and being outdoors can boost happiness and wellbeing, reinforcing the value of incorporating outdoor learning into your lessons. 🌳

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📣 FREE Phonics School Pilot Now Live! 📣 

Be the first to try our brand new IDL Phonics programme! 🤩 

Designed for pupils aged 4+, IDL Phonics is a powerful independent learning tool that helps children become confident, fluent readers through engaging, structured and multi-sensory learning.

There are over 200 objectives and 14,000 interactive activities, covering all 44 phonemes in English, including alternative spellings, common exception words and high-frequency words. Teachers can also use individual activities to support front-of-class teaching.

Available until 1st September 🙌 

Learn more by watching the video below and sign up for the free pilot today 👉 https://lnkd.in/erFv9euk

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Our new Phonics programme contains over 14,000 activities with 200+ different learning objectives! 🤩

We've created a independent phonics learning tool for pupils aged 4+, designed to help children become confident, fluent readers through engaging, structured and multi-sensory learning.

Fully aligned with the UK National Curriculum and Letters and Sounds framework, the programme provides systematic phonics instruction through interactive lessons that adapt to each learner.

Want to try it for FREE? 📣

We're  offering all schools the opportunity to try IDL Phonics free of charge from mid-April until the 1st September 2026 through our pilot programme.

Register here 👉 https://idlsgroup.com/phonics-page2/

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