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Annual Report 2000-2001
Director's Report
This has been a most successful year for Children’s World. Thanks to the Lankelly Foundation’s grant to pay the wages of our Chief Play Leader (April 1999 - April 2002), continuous SPECIAL SCHOOLS TOURING has been undertaken - including a Drama Tour for children with severe learning difficulties, a Video Tour for children with moderate learning difficulties and an Integration Schools Festival Tour for mixed-ability children from special schools and their neighbouring mainstream schools.
The Children’s World Pilot Inclusion Project, run in conjunction with Somerset County Council, Scope, Somerset Impact and Barnardos, in 3 mainstream primary schools, was a great success and the Inclusion Report informed Governors, the LEA and statutory and voluntary agencies of the views of children. We intend to undertake further Inclusion work, aimed at smoothing the entry of children with additional educational needs into mainstream education, when time and money allow. Children’s World has been developing its MAINSTREAM WORK and can now offer very useful workshops addressing Bullying and Peer Pressure. We can offer Team Challenge Days & Inclusion and Problem-Solving Workshops as well as "Living History" Tours on the Tudors for both primary & secondary schools. We also run Lunchtime Supervisory Assistants' Games Training in an attempt to make playtime a happier part of the school day. This year more than 8,000 child-sessions have taken place in Somerset and (what was) Avon schools and special schools. 
Our OUT-OF-SCHOOL WORK is flourishing, with our inflatable "Sensory Dome" and different Play Packages being made available for many different groups & voluntary agencies working with families who have special needs during holiday periods.
Our 2nd Bristol Children’s Festival and our 20th Glastonbury Children’s Festival in July 2001 were both extremely successful, giving great pleasure to more than 8,000 attendees & raising very useful sums of money, which will be spent subsidising our special schools work. We are delighted to have just received a £30,000 grant over the next 3 years from the EsmŽe Fairbairn Foundation to develop our special needs work. MORE FUNDING IS NEEDED however, if we are to be able to undertake all the exciting work we have planned. Do please take time to read this Report & the many quotes from teachers explaining why they believe Children’s World’s work to be so valuable. WE HAVE EXCITING PLANS AND HIGH HOPES FOR THE COMING YEAR! PLEASE CONSIDER FUNDING THIS EXCITING AND INNOVATIVE WORK THAT BENEFITS SO MANY CHILDREN 
Arabella Churchill, Director Return to Annual Reportsor click Sunny for main menu
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