Gill Walker leads on Personalised Learning. Irregularly she sends us a PD prod. Last week was a Ted Talk, this week was a link to the National Autistic Society “My World” programme – featuring an interview with no other than “Christopher” from Channel 4’s Educating the East End. By all accounts, Christopher was an inspirational pupil at Frederick Bremer School and his “Have a positive day” salutation left it’s mark on many of the staff (notable the dinner ladies), pupils and viewers of episode 8, including me. I was also impress with the skilfulness and warmth of his classroom assistant, Ayesha. I am lucky to say, I recognise we have a quite a few Ayesha’s (male and female) working with our vulnerable pupils here at the Academy.
Christopher was eager to learn and showed real aptitude for English. His response to Ted Hughe’s “Hawks Roosting” in his English class elicited a quiet round of applause from his peers, his explanations of Autism endeavouring and revealing.
What is Autism? – Interviewer
I think Autism is like, irregular social skills, mental skills and life skills. People with autism – they have a different view of life, it’s quite innocent, quite fragile but it’s hard like a rock. – Christopher
My favourite Christopher reflection,
…the term ‘normal’ is man made.
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‘…normal is man-made” – Christopher
“Have a positive day.” – Christopher
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/educating-the-east-end/videos/series-1/s1-ep8-positive-outlook
Kristian