School Culture

Anthea Penfold: A Craft Curriculum

Anthea was born in 1941 in Guildford, Surrey. She spent her entire school life in residential special schools in Sussex and Kent.

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Here Anthea describes the non academic culture at her school.

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We got up, we cleaned our shoes, we washed, we had breakfast and we – oh yes, the school and the dormitories were separate. So we went up to the school and the curriculum was very – when I went there it was very craft based. Gradually the NHS introduced lots and lots of education, academic subjects, but not – I don’t think there was the same impetus. I mean, my sister went to a normal school. She learned a lot more than I did, you know, and she had better teachers. She had fully qualified teachers right from the start.

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