The school received decodable books known as Fitzroy Readers and other teaching materials to help with its overhaul of its instructional teaching model.
Teacher Willie Alblas said the resources were important for implementing teaching methods that suit all students, but particularly dyslexics.
“Jo Mitchell works at our school as a multi-sensory structured language educator and was approached by Heidi Gregory,” she said.
“Heidi is in charge of dyslexia advocacy group Dyslexia Support Victoria in Melbourne and she chose Jo Mitchell and Lancaster Primary School to receive this amazing donation.”
Ms Alblas said Lancaster’s approach to teaching had required a huge amount of work from principal Trish Perry and many other people to ensure all Lancaster students were catered for.
“We were chosen for this donation because we are leading the way with explicitly teaching synthetic phonics and implementing the response to intervention model,” she said.
“That means all students who require small groups or one on one support are given it.”
Heidi Gregory said the decodable readers and other teaching materials would assist in teaching all students.
“They are without a doubt, exactly what our dyslexic students and those with learning differences need in order to learn to read, write and spell,” she said.
“Lancaster Primary School is doing amazing things to ensure all students have an equitable opportunity to learn and I am very proud to be a part of it and to watch their progress.
“My inspiration to advocate for an all-inclusive way of teaching children is my son Will.
“Unfortunately Will won’t benefit from the knowledge, hard work and dedication happening at Lancaster because he is now 15 and goes to a secondary school.
“We are very proud to know Will was the inspiration that paved the way at the school and we hope it will eventually filter through to other schools so all children can learn if taught the right way.”
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