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Ofsted Inspection Nov 2007
Tanbridge House School fundraising to support Year 10 student Leo Apostol has had a massive boost from CTS Horsham
Leo Apostol a Year 10 student at Tanbridge House School, who suffers from cerebral palsy, has limited movement on his left side plus communication and speech problems. Leo is an amazing person always happy and smiling; never complaining despite his problems and greets everyone with a wonderful cheering smile.
Tanbridge House School provide over 20 hours of support for Leo each week and are now hoping to purchase a communication aid for him so he can communicate with much greater ease, both to aid his learning and to help him socialise.
The specialised communication aid from Dynavox which Leo needs costs with training and insurance approximately £4000. Leo recently trialled the aid for just three days and in that short time the difference it made to him was incredible.
Tanbridge House School has been overwhelmed by the amazing response from Neal Grayston, Managing Director of Class Technology Systems Limited in Horsham. CTS is committed to transforming learning environments by providing ICT improvements and solutions and in the last year has been involved with providing Tanbridge House School with the most cutting edge e-learning technology.
Jules White, headteacher approached CTS to find a supplier for the specialised communication aid for Leo and upon hearing why the aid was needed Neal Grayston immediately offered £1000 towards the cost – The generosity of CTS has kick started Tanbridge’s fundraising for the aid and both Tanbridge and Leo’s family cannot thank Class Technology Systems Limited enough.
Tanbridge House School will be holding a fundraising event on Tuesday 21 July with support from Hays Education, Sodexo and Barclays Bank and hope to be purchasing this life changing aid for Leo very shortly.
Sally Hawes, Senior Leading of Learning at Tanbridge House School said: ‘We are so grateful to CTS, Sodexo and Barclays for their generous contributions. Leo is a wonderful student who really deserves this special devise. We feel it will be a vital support as he moves towards his post 16 goals and of equal importance it will help Leo to socialise more easily with his friends’.