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Focus on Practice: The Western Primary School ‘Quiet Room’ Project
Author(s) -
King Angus,
Chantler Zara
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
british journal of special education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.349
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1467-8578
pISSN - 0952-3383
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8527.00267
Subject(s) - trainer , quiet , mainstream , space (punctuation) , pedagogy , set (abstract data type) , psychology , sociology , computer science , political science , quantum mechanics , law , programming language , operating system , physics
There has been a great deal of interest recently in the development of more ‘nurturing’ environments in mainstream primary schools. This interest has been reflected in a series of articles published in the pages of this journal. In this paper, Angus King, headteacher of Western Primary School, a performance management consultant, a threshold assessor and a teacher trainer, with Zara Chantler, Key Stage 1 leader and SENCo at Western, describe the Western ‘Quiet Room’ project, set up in 1999 as a response to the needs of pupils experiencing social, emotional and behavioural problems. The Quiet Room was designed to provide a nurturing environment in a dedicated space away from the classroom. In this way, argue King and Chantler, a child’s emotional needs can be explored, on a one–to–one basis where appropriate, in a safe and supportive setting. The results to date are positive and there is real potential for the scheme to be extended.