At the start of the week Archie and I sit down and make a plan for the weeks content creation. As a team, we decide the direction we want to take and the topics we feel need to be covered. Today however, something happened that meant that this weeks blog has had to be entirely rewritten. If this happens, it’s because something has blown our awesome socks off and yes , they’re still off!!! 🧦🧦🧦
Archie and I were fortunate enough to be given a personal tour around Autism Unlimited’s BRAND NEW sixth form school in Christchurch, Dorset.
Our amazing tour guide, Donna, showed us the entire school and we got to meet not only the incredible staff, but the people who have helped fundraise, design and get this project off the ground.
The school has been designed BY THE STUDENTS! Each one has had their own views and considerations put at the very front of this schools conception and it shows. Each room is perfectly created for kids just like Archie. From a fully fledged gym space, a phenomenal music room – with a full on drumming sesh (Archie loved that!) and a professional kitchen that was used today by TV legend Lesley Waters. 🤩 This sixth form really does have it all.
(Apologies but photos of the inside were not permitted, for safeguarding purposes).
Archie and I were lucky enough to chat to Lesley and she explained that she had got the students cooking a whole range of INCREDIBLE dishes which were then served to todays visitors. This means that students can not only learn a valuable life skill but may even find a real passion for cooking… AMAZING! Thankyou Lesley for taking the time to talk to us, it was awesome to meet you 😊
This SEN setting is a beautiful school that has been specifically built to offer a safe and empathetic place for students to learn. That’s what EVERY child deserves!
It is very rare that I am lost for words, but I’ll simply say this… congratulations to Autism Unlimited!
As a parent to children with Neurological differences, it’s so common to feel that the world doesn’t understand you or your child. Today, Archie was just so comfortable. He was verbal, he was smiling and he was laughing. THAT SAYS IT ALL!
THANKYOU AUTISM UNLIMITED and to all who have supported the birth of this PHENOMENAL school!
