The Inclusion Project, Oxford Upper School

“None of the students were more than fifteen at the time, and none of them had any experience of writing: in fact, most of them thought they were ‘rubbish at English’. As the year went on, though, several of them discovered that, on the contrary, they were actually rather talented, and even more astonishingly, that they enjoyed writing, and reading each other’s work.”

Kate Clanchy, Writer-in-Residence at Oxford Upper School

Year six: waiting to get to secondary school.

Year seven, eight, nine: swearing at teachers, getting excluded

Again, and again, and again.

Year eleven: getting my head down. Loving it.

“Things Change” by Jack, a student in the Inclusion Project at Oxford Upper School

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