Welcome to The Windmill School an all age autism specific school for 90 pupils aged 5- 19. A relational, informed, authentic, approach to autism education
Joined June 2023
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Windmill Chimes Christmas Concert! 🎵 🔔 from the choir led by our wonderful parent Sandra to poetry to the most incredible performance on Sax 🎷 by our own ‘Genesis’ such talent 🥹🫶
A serenade flower and cupcake for our teaching assistants on Friday as we acknowledged all the wonderful work they do for our pupils 🌸🧁🎹🎶
The wonderful @WennLawson at our school where parents also joined our staff INSET. A clear reminder of how ‘being mono tropic in a poly tropic world is difficult’ for our autistic community. We learned how important it is to make accommodations in schools.
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Barnet Council has launched the Barnet Children & Families Autism Hub, a collaborative initiative with @ResourcesAutism, a national charity providing specialist support for autistic under 18s and their families.
View the full article here👉 bit.ly/4nPxNuL
End of term was fun! 🍦🎤🎨 Windmill certainly had talent during our achievement presentation 👏 parents and staff joined in to celebrate end of the year together.
Wishing all our parents pupils and staff a wonderful summer break!
As part of our VE Day learning, Tajiri class learnt about rationing and how it carried on after the war had ended. We measured out the weekly ration for a child in 1945. We then “enjoyed” eating Spam sandwiches!
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2023 Annual Lecture: Making schools safer and more inclusive for autistic students - Pete Wharmby #CRAEwebinar #archive youtube.com/watch?v=GxLbBQcl…
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Channel 5’s #AreYouAutistic is available to stream.
[27-mins in] CRAE’s Director Anna talks about how autistic people often process more info than non-autistic people, which can lead to both advantages in some situations but challenges in others.
channel5.com/show/are-you-au…
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The review of the autism act that will inform the governments autism strategy are calling for contributions from parents of autistic people, autistic people those working with autistic people to make a contribution: link below :closes Monday 2nd June
committees.parliament.uk/com…
This was an incredibly moving but important delivery of the work that went into this book by our respected colleagues in the field and more importantly parents and the autistic community hosted by Windmills research partner @CRAE_IOE
If you are interested, the recording of last week's book launch for 'Improving MH Therapies for Autistic Children and Young People' is now up.
The aircon was noisy, so we've added captions!
youtube.com/watch?v=iyrxJ7s3…
Our bake sale today 🧁 thank you for all generous donations ☺️including from the wonderful
@SamuelDexxter 😊
Excellent paper by Sam,
who will further research with our young people soon..
New paper alert:
Dexter et al. 2025
Special school staff perspectives on how careers guidance is provided to their autistic young people
We'll be posting a research summary soon!
doi.org/10.1002/berj.4169
It was an enormous pleasure to be invited to speak at @habsboys for @NCWeek.
What incredible passion, drive and leadership shown today,
along with a commitment to advocate for #ActuallyAutistic young people.
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It's here! Neurodiversity Celebration Week has begun! 🌟
Let’s make this week one to remember! Head to eu1.hubs.ly/H0hyg5Q0 to get started 🌟
#NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek #NeurodiversityWeek #NCW #ThisIsND
Today on World Book Day we must acknowledge the wonderful ‘Gina Kaminski’ stories gifted to us by our good friend and colleague @Misforautism 🙂 and of course Craig and Francis 😉
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Thoughtful, valuable #CRAEwebinar @MsJoBillington @CRAE_IOE Autistic experiences of marginalisation, bullying, invalidation, & effort required to ‘be good’ & appear ‘normal’ in school - impact on identity, attainment, belonging & wellbeing youtu.be/vzv_WzdIXuA?feature… #Neurodiversity
ALT CRAE webinar flyer screenshot with head and shoulder shot of Jo Billington and quote ‘I liked school, but school didn’t like me’: autistic adults’ reflections on their primary school experiences’ At top of screen #CRAEwebinar and letters UCL and lower right original time and date for the webinar on Thursday 14th November 2024
