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What is Inclusion?

As our understanding of learning increases, so does our realisation that every brain learns in different ways and has a different balance of 'intelligences'.  This realisation leads to more individualised teaching across the full range of pupil abilities

In this way, a child who is really good at maths would have a different maths programme to a child who is less able at maths but very good at English.  School have done this for years, by streaming different subjects.  As an even greater recognition of individual abilities comes into play, so does the need to support every child in some way in his learning.  Rare is the child who has even ability across all intelligences.

This opens the door to children whose intelligences profile varies more than would have normally been accepted in a mainstream school.  Specialist support teachers will help children with a whole range of needs across the whole intelligence spectrum.  Some children DO need more support than otherrs and may hve got this support in specialist schools in the past.  With the full support team now in place in mainstream schools, it is now possible to support such children in the mainstream , adding value to their lives as well as to the school as a whole through greater understanding and support for 'whole brain learning' for all children.

For this reason, 'inclusion' should be supported by the whole community, no just by those parents whose children are perceived as needing more support than the norm.  Every child and every teacher benefits by the presence of the specialist support team within the school.

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