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Zara Todd: Catching up in Mainstream

Zara was born in 1985 in London. She attended a special school initially, then transferred to mainstream at the age of seven. She continued with mainstream education at secondary and then went on to university.

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Here Zara describes the different levels of learning achieved in both her mainstream and special settings.

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I thoroughly loved my field trips out to this mainstream school because it was the only part of my week where I was stimulated both educationally and socially to the right degree. And it’s interesting, when I transferred from special into the primary school, Maths and Science, which were the two subjects that I went out to the mainstream school for, were the subjects that I was not behind my classmates in. For English in particular I was so substantially behind my classmates when I moved into mainstream school that I actually had special lessons with a teacher from the council three or four times a week.

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