Add colour names to each one to enable children to independently access them. but he's held back by the colours sometimes. This allows children with colour vision deficiency to easily follow the instruction and not be embarrassed. This is one of his biggest embarrassments as sport is his passion and something he really excels at. Ask children to run to the 'red number 1 cone'.

When doing PE, do you often set out cones and ask children to run to the red cone? Add numbers to each cone as well. When you ask children to hand in books, refer to the boxes by both features - “put your work in the red spotty box”. So a red SPOTTY box and a green STRIPY box. The best thing to do is add in another feature. Or yellow stickers on certain trays and green on others. Do you rely solely on colour as a distinguishing feature? For example, red boxes for incomplete work, green boxes for complete. Think carefully about how you label your new classroom this year. So how does this affect you as a teacher?

The MySight app has been amazing because I can check in on him by scanning things with the app and then seeing what he sees. It has been great to have my dad explain it to me, because it’s very difficult for a 10 year old to answer questions about it. This has been a learning curve for me as a parent. Even his passion of playing football is affected.

Testing kids for color blindness