I was a pupil at Ledston Hall School near Castleford from about 1949 to 1958 (Ledston Hall being an Elizabethan manor house now converted into flats). I recently visited Castleford library. They have a folder of articles about Ledston including the previous history of Ledston Hall but virtually nothing about my school. I have [...]
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Dear Friend, Those who worry about the existence of Quaker schools (see recent letters) may like to think about Breckenbrough School, a small Non-maintained Special School under Quaker auspices, affiliated like the others to Friends Schools Council. It caters for boys with emotional and behaviour difficulties including those associated with milder forms of autism [...] The classic Radio 4 programme ‘You &Yours’ is celebrating its 40th birthday and, on October 22nd , the programme looked at the advances that have been made for people with disabilities (www.bbc.co.uk/radio4). One of the contributors interviewed by Peter White was Baroness Warnock. In 1978 Baroness Warnock chaired the UK’s committee of inquiry into [...] Memories of the school at Dunnow Hall and Ledstone Hall and comments on the 2009 History of Breckenbrough School Sent in by David D Higgins, June and July 2010 The author wishes to remind his readers that these memories are well over 50 years old – so may contain some inaccuracies. He encourages anyone [...] Within days of starting at his new school, Michael Robson caused thousands of pounds of damage by setting fire to a farmer’s hay bales. He already knew that no other school would have him – but this one was different. At Breckenbrough School, near Thirsk, the emphasis was, and still is, on creating an [...] 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 [...] This article was in the Observer on the 20th December 2009 and was about the difficulty inherent in getting a child to a school that would supply the child’s needs, but due to finance councils want to send pupils to their own mainstream schools to receive an inadequate education that doesn’t. It also looks [...] |
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