ABSTRACT
Ormerod School is a day special school for children with physical disabilities. In recent years, the school has taken an active approach towards integration and, since 1980, more than a hundred children have moved out into ordinary schools. Aged between four and fifteen, these were children with a very wide range of physical, sensory and learning difficulties. For those children who, because of physical or other reasons, are not able to be integrated into their local schools, three 'outposts' have been established within mainstream schools and staffed by Ormerod School. The first of these outposts was set up at Marlborough School, a comprehensive school at Woodstock, in 1981. All the children at Marlborough between eleven and sixteen have traditionally been taught in mixed-ability classes and at that time it was the headteachers' expectation that, if children needed additional support, this should be provided in the ordinary classroom.
