ABSTRACT
In this chapter Tony Booth provides a portrait of the Grove Primary School. He describes the history of the school and its place in the community and the way it adapted as it included, first, children with visual disabilities, and then children with physical disabilities when a nearby special school closed down. He illustrates the curriculum of the school with the example of three lessons each of which includes all pupils in a shared experience as a basis for a range of group and individual activities and discoveries. The complexities of organising and supporting the learning of pupils is discussed as well as the implications for pupils and staff of ‘moving on’ from the Grove.
The children just work in groups and we work on a range of things … I don’t think of people having different abilities I think about them as having different shaped minds.
(Mary Hilton, class teacher)