Lovely thing lovely head teacher said! ***Feel good alert ***

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DGS (5) attends MS school despite very significant cerebral palsy. (Needs all care needs met, but is a bright little boy). The head teacher called DD into the office (shock] (don't we all dread that!).

He is a fab head and his school is an ofsted outstanding primary. He said it had been a struggle to get DGS into his school (converted a changing area, hoist, training, special chairs and a 1 to 1 plus a new helper to cover lunch so his 1 to 1 can eat!). Tons of input from PT, OT and SALT etc.

Anyway he said that getting DGS into his school had been the highlight of his career .....

:)

That's lovely to hear it's really heartening that there is some decency out there

He was in the nativity today as a sheep and remembered his lines ...baa baa . The other children adore him and held his hand

The HT has welcomed children on the autistic spectrum, DS and other physical limitations. He is amazing!

Not sure your experience are reflected in most of the mums on here but glad inclusion hasn't been completely eradicated,

Lovely. Wish there were many more like him.x

The HT is leaving but he is going to be a troubleshooter to bring other schools up to scratch so maybe he will spread his policies too

I hope he shoots some of the trouble in our county!

What a lovely thing to hear xx.

Made me all warm inside. Lovely man and well done to your DGS

Fab. Really fab. Good for that head. Wish there were more like him.

Just Wow

Can you bottle him??

Wouldn't it be wonderfully if we could clone him

We could also do the teachers there and DGSs lovely one to one!

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It is so good to hear someone in authority being so whole hearted about inclusion.

That's wonderful :)

I think DDs primary is now just one lift short of being fully wheelchair accessible - I think they've been doing the conversions/building as the single wheelchair user moves up the school. They've added a lift, ramps and accessible toilets/care room

Brilliant

Dd3 attends a totally inclusive primary and it truly is amazing. There are children with so many different disabilities and complex medical needs.

If only they could ditch a few of the old school teaching staff it might be close to perfect

But that would be greedy wouldnt it

This thread is fab! I used to accompany children with additional needs on visits into main stream schools for inclusion as a 1-1 and had some horrible experiences. Some schools seemed to be totally against inclusion. This was quite a while ago and am so pleased to hear things have changed for the better.

That's lovely. Lump in my throat.