What a nice suprise it was today on arriving home from work to find a book of poems celebrating 25 years of the Unicorn School – addressed to me at the Abingdon Blog. It is full of poems and drawings and shows how much the children appreciate their small school, the friendliness, small classes, and to be in a place where they can enjoy learning, even if they have to get up so early to get there.

The Unicorn School is a school that helps children with dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalcula, speech and language.

Fifty years ago, my sister struggled at academic subjects from an early age, and I could not understand why she was always in the bottom set. It was only when she went to Redhill Technical College that a recently diagnosed condition, dyslexia, was suggested. She was always articulate, but lost the thread when trying to write those thoughts down, and writing was all that school examiners ever saw.

There has been quite a transformation at the car park entrance to St Helen and St Katharine School from 2011 to 2016.

First there was the building of new science centre, and this year a new sports centre has grown up.

Abingdon School, further along the Faringdon Road in Abingdon, has seen a similar transformation with the addition of a sports centre, and a new science centre.

At the Community Free Space over the next three days there will be an Art & Technology Show put on by pupils from Fitzharrys School.
Fitzharrys School recently had an Ofsted inspection that found the school to be Good in all areas. Many congratulations to them on all their hard work.

Unicorn School pupil Millie-May is jogging the equivalent of a marathon to raise funds for The Unicorn School. Millie-Maye will be running a total of 26.2 miles in stages throughout the month of June 2016, and for Millie-Maye jogging is tricky so this challenge.

The Unicorn School celebrates its 25 year anniversary this year. In that time they have supported more than 500 pupils with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia, dyspraxia and dyscalculia. As they enter their second quarter-century the next exciting development is the introduction of a GCSE programme, commencing this September.

To support Millie-Maye’s fundraising campaign donate via her Just Giving Page: www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Ann-Haggar5