On the 13th Febuary 2007 Martin Wainright from The Guardian published an article about Breckenbrough. The piece entitled “In Search of Lost Boys” appeared in the Education Supplement of the days paper. The full article can be found on the Guardian Unlimited website at;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2007/feb/13/schools.specialeducationneeds
Breckenbrough is a very special school – so how come it is having to market itself for the first time?
… and the lesson continues at Breckenbrough school, where 80 years of wisdom and radical experiment continue to change the lives of a group of otherwise potentially lost boys. Run by Quakers in one of those country mansions that have seen better days (a slight whiff is the after-effect of the latest anti-mouse campaign, one of the governors explains), the school has a credo put simply by George Fox.
“Walk cheerfully over the world,” said the original Quaker, “answering that of God in everyone.” Bring out the best in people, in other words, which sounds easy, but isn’t when you are dealing with a child who has crept into his shell like a hermit crab, emerging only to flare up violently; or one who lives in the partially separate world of Asperger’s syndrome or severe dyslexia.
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