One For All Case Studies

This was One For All's first interactive workshop for inclusion officers and was conducted by Maresa and Lucy, as Lindsey was unable to attend. One For All always aim to work together, but on occasions when this is not possible due to personal commitments we are well prepared to work in a variety of combinations or even go solo. Other members always contribute to the preparation of sessions they cannot attend and they are represented in such situations.

Here we really got those inclusion officers thinking strategically and made them work interactively. They had to ditch the text books and come out from behind those isolated desks! They had to live up to their name and work like a team to make the barriers wall and then find the solutions to break it down and make inclusion work.



Afterwards Lynne told us,

'It was so important for education and inclusion officials to hear the views of young people in education today.'

Another inclusion officer said,

'We all learnt so much from One For All. Their workshop really brought important inclusion issues to life!'

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It has only been a few months since our first assembly and already we are back to schhol again, which is great because we like to keep busy! This time we could relax a little because we felt more confident about our plans. We even added in a few fun extras because it was the end of term. Lucy gave a short musical interlude on the clarinet which seemed to go down very well and everyone at the school was really interested in our inclusive message. In fact, there is even talk of inviting us back!

A teacher told us,

'We really enjoyed having One For All! It was great to actually show the children that disability isn't something to be scared of.'

The children said,

'We had lots of fun and we know it's ok to be different.'

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