One of our fundamental aims at Kings Copse Oasis to to provide our pupils with a fully inclusive educational experience, and an important feature of this this allowing pupils as much independence in and around school as is reasonably possible. To promote equal access the school is undergoing an update to the signs that populate our doors and walls to include braille.
Phase one is now complete with tactile signs being placed in all 'standard' areas of the school, ranging from disabled toilet signs to a main entrance sign. Phase two, which will hopefully be completed by the summer, is for specific/individual areas of the school such as 'The Oasis' or 'The Haven'.
For our partially sighted and our registered blind pupils as well as any VI visitors to the school, we are now becoming even more accessible. Our sighted pupils have been equally interested in the signs, especially the braille, with lots of discussion in the corridors.
Our thanks goes to all those children who took part in the 'Read4RNIB' day back in the Autumn, and of course to all those parents, friends and family who sponsored them. We were allowed by RNIB to retain 10% of the money raised to develop our own resources and tactile signage has been on our development plan for a couple of years, held back by the cost. So once again...
THANK YOU!
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