What does inclusion mean to you?
We asked leaders within our inclusive community what inclusion meant to them
Exning Primary School - Newmarket
The award winning Exning Primary School provides an outstanding education within the context and understanding of shared values. Children are taught kindness, co-operation, resilience, honesty, respect, concentration and perseverance, creating an emotionally aware school family, within a safe and secure environment.
Oldham Sixth Form College
'In terms of technology, inclusion is about access to devices as much as anything else, and teachers being able to use that effectively. Every child has a right to be able to learn whether they are in school or out of school, whether they are taught in a hospital school, whether they have broken their leg and they're at home.
We should never be in a situation where a child has a reason for not coming to school, where they're not ill, they are still capable of learning, and yet they can't because they haven't got access to that learning.'
Louise Astbury
Director of Professional Development - Oldham Sixth Form College
Flakefleet Primary School - Fleetwood
At Flakefleet, they are strongly committed to helping their children grow and develop the skills that they will need to be successful in life. They take great pride in the broad and exciting curriculum they offer their children and the range of support they receive in order to thrive.
As importantly as the core academic skills their children learn, they want everyone to be happy within school, feel safe and confident to take on the challenges they will face as they grow older.
Resilience, aspirations and the willingness and ability to take risks, believe in oneself and learn from mistakes are qualities that they believe are essential and they commit a lot of time and effort into helping their children and staff be the best versions of themselves.
