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The Collett School is a special needs school attended by children from all over Hertfordshire and the neighbouring Counties. Our children have many syndromes including Down's and 50% of our children have Autism. Two of our pupils have very rare diagnosis, one who is one of only two in the world and another who is one of only six in the world. Almost half of our children are under Great Ormond Street Hospital. Nearly 50% of our pupils come from financially disadvantaged backgrounds; some are in care or fostered.
The Collett School is striving to become a flagship for special education by changing the perception of and the way our children learn and grow. Our mission is to support the children to grow in confidence and have as much independence as possible, allowing them to be part of society and contribute to the community. We have been highly proactive in achieving as much as we can with little money and hard graft by the staff, our parents and pupils. We are now in a position that we need help!
We have been required to have more children with complex needs without additional funding and although this is important to us, we need support in being able to provide suitable and safe spaces to help achieve our vision of equipping these children to be part of and contribute to our mainstream world. As it is, we have lost our Science, Art and IT rooms to accommodate the children and turned every cupboard into classrooms, therapist and counsellor rooms!
We still, however, need to build two more learning spaces which need to be sensory and inspiring to meet the needs of our children. With no money coming from the Local Authorities to help build the learning spaces we are doing all we can to raise the money ourselves.
This is why I need as much support from all my friends and family, to raise as much money as possible to help the school get the learning spaces our children need.
