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Annual Report 2002-2003
Director's Report
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has been an excellent year for Children's World, with a wide variety of high-quality work taking place in both schools and special schools.
Feedback from schools staff has been extremely positive and our innovative, exciting and creative way of addressing different subjects seems to
be very much appreciated by the children and by staff who believe our workshops offer real benefits to their pupils.We undertook 3 SPECIAL SCHOOLS TOURS during the 02/03 academic year:
We are delighted to have created some special 1-day workshops for children with SLD/PMLD and some 1-day workshops for children with MLD/EBD - these enable us to usefully fill any "spare" days at short notice working with special schools (some from further away) which have not been included in our regular touring schedule, thereby increasing significantly the number of children with special needs we can work with each year. We are currently developing a new, possibly science-based, 1-day workshop for children with severe learning difficulties, and some special, more sensory, workshops for children with very complex needs. With the growing inclusion of more and more children with additional educational needs into mainstream education, we are continuing to develop the variety of workshops Childre's World can offer to mainstream schools, both primary and secondary. Many MAINSTREAM WORKSHOPS have taken place this year addressing Bullying, Peer Pressure, Inclusion, Transition and Team Building. These have all proved very successful, with extremely positive feedback from participating schools. We also ran an amazing "Arts Week" for 390 primary children at Brookside School. Do please find the time to read the many quotes from schools staff that you will find in this Report. We are currently developing and expanding our Anti-Bullying Workshops, creating new sessions in which children can draft their own Anti-Bullying Charters and also examine bullying that takes place outside of school. We are also currently developing our Transition Workshops considerably, with particular reference to the transition of children with additional educational needs into mainstream education. This exciting development is already gaining a lot of interest from school Sencos and from Learning Support Centres, and we hope that this work will prove to be of real value. Our INTERACTIVE INCLUSIVE SAMPLER CD PACKAGE is nearly complete. It contains a dozen different tracks of songs, games, sensory journeys, massage stories and different activities that we hope will prove valuable to the 500 special schools and mainstream schools with high percentages of children with additional educational needs, who will be receiving them as a New Year Present in January 2004. We have also developed and filmed an innovative and exciting short VIDEO on "Bullying" and 2 short videos on "Inclusion" which are of immense value as "discussion-starters" in our workshops. We hope that these short videos and the CD Package may well be marketable in the future as useful tools for schools when addressing their PSHE curriculum. Our 2 CHILDRENŐS FESTIVALS in Glastonbury and Bristol went extremely well raising much needed funds for the Charity, while providing huge amounts of performance, participation and fun for a very large number of families. Between 1 September 2002 and 31 August 2003 Children's World undertook almost 11,000 x 90-minute child-sessions, as well as involving 390 primary children in a full week of arts workshops and entertaining more than 6,000 children and their families at our Children's Festivals. We feel that Children's World is continuing to develop and grow. We have excellent relationships with schools and special schools and are always open to creating new workshops to meet their needs and the needs of their pupils. We look forward to exciting further growth and development in the coming year. 
Arabella Churchill, Director 14 October 2003
PATRONS: The Lady Soames, D.B.E., Susan Osman< TRUSTEES: Michael Freeney (Chair) Anne Harris (Treasurer), Dianne Chamberlain, Jane Wrennall, Jenny Davis, Caroline Smails DIRECTOR: Arabella Churchill REGISTERED OFFICE: 2 St. Edmund's Cottages, Bovetown, Glastonbury, Somerset BA6 8JE BANKERS: Lloyds TSB, 64 High Street, Street, Somerset BA16 0ED SOLICITORS: Bartlett, Gooding & Weelen, 11 Chilkwell Street, Glastonbury, Somerset BA6 8DL INDEPENDENT EXAMINER: A. Davies, FCA, Tenon Ltd., The Old Mill, Park Road, Shepton Mallet, Somerset BA4 5BS ACCOUNTANTS: Tenon Ltd., The Old Mill, Park Road, Shepton Mallet, Somerset BA4 5BS CHILDREN'S WORLD'S WEB PAGE: www.childrensworldcharity.org CHILDREN'S WORLD'S E-MAIL ADDRESS: ArabellaChurchill@childrensworldcharity.org |
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