YOUNGSTERS enjoyed a comic capers at a special workshop aimed to make learning fun.

Senior pupils at St Michael's Primary were treated to a visit by Rossie Stone, the creator and founder of Dekko Comics.

Rossie spoke of how his dyslexia held him back at school - and how he devised a unique way of revising that worked for him.

He told the Telegraph: "I was inspired to do this because I was dyslexic and struggled at school.

"When I came up with this technique that I found for myself, I turned my grades from Ds into As.

"After years of being bottom of the class in fifth year at school it all fell into place at last and I was kicking myself for not doing it sooner.

"It was very frustrating to work so hard and still low grades, so I decided to revise my own way and then I felt I had the evidence to prove that I wasn't stupid."

Rossie used something he enjoyed - drawing - to help him to retain information.

Rossie said: "I found reading, writing and listening in class very difficult, so therefore I found all my subjects difficult because I was so bad at reading and learning information from text books and worksheets.

"I could understand the words but the information hadn't gone in."

Rossie stressed that dyslexia means that someone just learns in a different way.

His Dekko Comics link into the curriculum, covering history, maths, biology and French, and he also runs workshops in schools.

Rossie set the St Michael's kids a series of challenges and said they thoroughly enjoyed themselves.

Gill Neeson, the school's literacy development co-ordinator, thanked Rossie for coming along to St Michael's.

She told the Telegraph: "This is a study skill programme which Rossie developed for himself because he is dyslexic."

"It's in line with what we do within the school through story maps."