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Helen Cooke: Jubilee Sports Day

Helen was born in 1969 in Surrey. She attended mainstream primary and secondary schools, going on to University from her Grammar school.

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Here Helen talks about feeling included in Sports at school.

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Transcript

I was incredibly happy at Lee Common, and was treated no differently. I was included in absolutely everything and I do remember, for the Jubilee Sports Day in 1977, and obviously I couldn't do a lot of the races, but they found me a role of handing the medals out, so I was just always included in everything.

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