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Name: Richard Copperwaite Position: Learning Support Assistant

Position: Learning Support Assistant

Employer: Grange School for children with moderate learning difficulties in Kempston, Bedfordshire

Monday

Park the car and make my way to class. The children arrive at nine. They each perform an individual task for ten minutes, practicing handwriting or maybe learning to tie a shoelace. This settles them down and gets everyone into a 'school' frame of mind.

Grange School has an intake of 160 pupils across both the primary and secondary age range, with varying degrees of learning difficulty. We teach children with Down's syndrome, ADHD, visual impairment and autism. Attached to the Year Eight autism unit, where all the children are 12 and 13 years of age, I am one of six learning support assistants. The children integrate with the main school wherever possible.

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