The Special School

Started a thread on this last night! Called “Inspirational people”

Yes, I watched. What an amazing school. Wonderful staff, lovely to see their obvious commitment to and love for their job.

yes, I watched this! so amazing to see the joy on the young peoples faces as they enjoyed splashing and swimming about in the pool!

I saw some of that and thought it was wonderful and also heart-warming in times such as this. It makes you count your blessings.

Lucca

Started a thread on this last night! Called “Inspirational people”

I started a thread about duplicate threads a couple of weeks ago.
It seems to happen most mornings.
I reckon it's because the list of active threads are so dominated by games threads.
This results in readers being unable to see a wider range of other topical threads.
I also mentioned it to GNHQ, but I don't think that I worded it well or made myself clear, because I don't think that they understood what I meant.

Also threads get duplicated because of the different headings.

‘The Special School’ and ‘Inspirational People’, both the same topic, could be interpreted in completely different ways by just browsing the active thread.

I agree with Calendargirl. Also most of us are not glued to this formula and may simply not have seen the other thread.

Forum !

Calendargirl good point.

Hey I don’t mind it being duplicated! Just saying. And definitely my fault for not being specific in the title.
Not e one ting anyone to be glued to this forum”. Blimey.

Not expecting

I do find I apparently mistype more on GN than anywhere else.

Anyway the thrust of my thread was how wonderful the staff are across the board. They should all be on huge salaries !
I was in tears for much of the three programmes I’ve watched.

I could do with a bit of feel good so will watch next time. Thanks for the recommendation.

Lucca sorry to duplicate your thread.
I too shed a tear watching the programme even more so when the head (wish I'd taken note of his name) got emotional

Lucca

Hey I don’t mind it being duplicated! Just saying. And definitely my fault for not being specific in the title.
Not e one ting anyone to be glued to this forum”. Blimey.

As I said !

Some of the best places I worked were special schools. The care, attention and just plain devotion shown to the children by the teachers and care attendants was wonderful. It's a pity that so many were closed in the rush to mainstreaming. So much experience was lost - and so were many of the children lost in the maelstrom of big secondary schools despite the best intentions of SN Co ordinators.
I sometimes used to see some of the children now grown up that I worked with in various special schools. I can't say that they were very much better but I suspect that without the input they received as children at special schools they'd be much worse.