peittion: to introduce common disabilities to the curriculum for primary and secondary

read

hi guys this petition can only be signed by UK residents I think it's a create cause 
if you would like to sign it and share it with your friends here's the link 
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/551829
any questions just ask

janer1967

@WestHam06 May be of interest to you

WestHam06

Thank you @janer1967, will be sure to take a look. 
Thank you for sharing @read, welcome to the community and thank you for joining us. 

Cher_Alumni

Hello @read It's lovely to meet you.  Well done you for acting on something you are passionate about.  

I agree that disability should be a core component of children's primary curriculum and there's many academic studies to back up that it deserves its place there.  For more information on research conducted, visit the University of Leeds Disability Equality in English Primary Schools webpage or read this ESCR article.  

Have you thought about sharing the petition link on social media sites to get more signatures? You could even tag in high profile disability advocates and disabled celebrities to share it with their networks.  If you need any help give me a shout and I will do my best to support you with it . Good luck!

read

thanks for the support can you try as best as you can to share it 

read

ive contacted shine 

Cher_Alumni

Brilliant.  I will share it with people I know   

read

thanks hopefully more people will 

Richard_Scope

Signed and shared on my social media. Thanks for this @read, such an important issue to address.

read

thanks richard i appreciated alll the support form everyone 

WestHam06

Hi @read, 
                 How are you? Firstly, thank you for joining us and welcome to the community. Thank you for sharing your petition with us, it is such an important topic and I applaud you in following your passion and trying to make change that is needed. This is something I am very passionate about and something I too am trying to implement. I believe if children are educated about disability it massively reduces stigma and I think it helps disabled people to feel less isolated, but we have a long way to go to achieve this and so I support your petition. I have signed and will share. Thank you. 

read

im new even though i didi post a petition and this post is to address it 
the petition title is to introduce common disabilities to the curriculum for primary and secondary school if you wouldn't mind signing it using the link below that would be greatly appreciated any questions just ask I'm very confident that many people feel passionate about this cause 
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/551829

Cher_Alumni

Hi @read I've put your new post with this one so we can keep all people's questions in one place to make it easier for you to spot and respond to them.

I hope you managed to read @WestHam06 's message.  I think you two share a lot of the same passion about this issue and could have some interesting conversations  

read

okay then 

read

I love the support thanks everyone

WestHam06

Hi @read, 
                 Hope that you are well. I am also keen to talk about disability inclusion in the curriculum and also raising awareness of different disability and removing this idea that disabled people are unable to do certain things. Please may I ask, how do you think would be best to engage children in learning about disability? For me, one of the key elements is children visibly seeing people with disabilities within the school environment and the wider community. I am currently working with my old secondary school to see how I can use my experiences as a disabled person as part of their mentoring programme. There are so many ways to positively demonstrate how people with disabilities positively contribute to society and that by understanding disability we can all work together for a society where there is equality for all. I have also posted here on the community to try to understand other people's thoughts on this very important topic, very happy to share these with you. Thank you. 
Thank you @Cher_Scope, I look forward to the conversations with @read, thank you.

read

thanks i would love to talk about the issues I've emailed BBC east of England to promote my petition 

WestHam06

Hi @read, 
                Brilliant, please do let us know how you get on with the BBC East of England with regard to promoting your petition. Please may I ask, what issue would you like to talk about first? Please may I ask a question, how best do you feel is it to increase disability awareness in schools? By this I mean in what format do you think would work best? Thank you

read

@WestHam06 they sent me a number to contact their team on so I will contact them I've got 71 signature now 

read

@WestHam06 i was thinking that they could put it in psche or maybe an assembly 

WestHam06

Hi @read, 
                 That's brilliant that you have 71 signitures and that you have a contact number for BBC East of England, please may I ask have you mananged to contact them? I really like the idea of an assembly or as a more long term plan incorporating it as part of PSHE or Citinzenship depending what terminology for lessons the school uses. Please may I ask do you think it would be more appropriate to have disabilitiy specific lessons or assemblies such as a lesson about Cerebral Palsy and a lesson about Autism or do you think the lesson or assesmbly should be more generally about disability? Thank you