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True education aims to serve the needs of the whole human being. The young person with special needs is particularly benefited by an approach which addresses the whole person. |
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Crafts in the education programme The practice of handwork and crafts helps to bring head, heart and hands into a healthy relationship. For this reason the arts and crafts are taken very seriously as learning tools in Curative Education.
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Craft lessons are well guided by very experienced teachers and use materials of a high quality and result in a real and useable product. Such work is not by any means for the hands alone. It helps to stimulate the mind and the soul, which cannot be easily awakened by direct academic work.
Fulfillment and the satisfaction of success come in different ways suited to different individuals. If we are guided by what each young person can learn to do then a good practical result is achieved. This helps to relieve feelings of inadequacy which may arise through difficulties or failure in academic work.
For example, it is a real achievement and pleasure for a young person to see the length and beauty of the cloth that he or she has woven. The finished article is useful and valued by those who receive it. Through weaving a scarf the young person simultaneously builds up an “inner fabric” of self worth and becomes more connected to the things all around us that are made by human hands.
Our workshops are unusually well resourced and visitors are routinely amazed at the quality of the pupils’ output. We have workshops for basketry, weaving, woodwork, pottery and baking.
The purpose of crafts is to:
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