The PACE Centre, based in Philip Green House in Aylesbury, was one of the first big projects underaken by the Trust. This school for children with motor disorders such as cerebral palsy was operating out of a portakabin in the middle of a field with just four children. Over several years, the Trust raised the money to pay for a purpose-built school which opened in 1997. We also went on to raise the funds to build extensions to the school so that it could operate at maximum capacity.
The school now has over sixty children and has become a centre of excellence. Many of the children go onto mainsteam school following their time at PACE.
PACE uses a unique method of teaching based on the principles and practices of Conductive Education, pioneered by Dr Peto of Hungary, and incorporates other therapies and teaching methods. Teachers, conductors and therapists learn from each other, are flexible in their thinking and are not constrained by their own professional ideology. This innovative and unique approach is enabling children to reach their full potential.
It is our intention to build a National Training Centre where parents, teachers, carers and therapists can come from all over the United Kingdom to be trained in these unique methods so that children all over the country can benefit.
The first step was to develop a National Training Curriculum and then to build the Centre. The Trust donated around £65,000 to cover the cost of developing the Training Curruculum. |
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