{"id":199306,"date":"2025-06-20T07:47:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T07:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/199306\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T07:47:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T07:47:15","slug":"sen-classroom-assistants-embrace-school-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/199306\/","title":{"rendered":"SEN classroom assistants embrace school opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Classroom assistants Dan McKee and and Ben McCreight are embracing their roles at Clandeboye Primary School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The principal, Julie Bishop, said that Dan, who has Down&#8217;s syndrome, and Ben, who has a learning disability, are making a difference to everyone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;With us working now fully with children who have additional needs, I think it&#8217;s important for the families of those children to see that there are other experiences once the children go beyond school life themselves and on into adulthood,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Just over a third of people with disabilities in Northern Ireland are in work, compared with more than half in the rest of the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Classroom assistants Dan McKee and and Ben McCreight are embracing their roles at Clandeboye Primary School. The principal,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-199306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114714592822113614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}