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Charters School   :: Learning Support Centre  

The school motto at Charters School is Unity, Respect, Excellence and these words are fully embodied in the Learning Support Centre, an area within the school that caters specifically for students with a physical disability.

In the early 1980’s at a time when many other schools were unsuitable for students with a physical disability, Charters installed lifts and started a programme of inclusion that was extremely unusual in a comprehensive at that time.

Over the years the school has continued to value every student, creating a specialist centre which includes a physiotherapy bed for alleviating the symptoms of cerebral palsy, hoists to aid toileting and an array of other equipment that allows all students to participate fully in school life.

External specialists including physiotherapists and experts who are trained to help those who are visually or hearing impaired, visit regularly to help students meet their full potential.

The Resource Unit was moved to its present home on the school site in 1992, but completely refurbished in 2015 when it was renamed as the Learning Support Centre.

Another very successful Northern Parishes/  Winkfield Arts Week, draws to a close with the judging of the art and craft items in the exhibition at Brownlow Hall (still open for viewing on Sunday october 30th)

The Arts Week features a huge range of free events - everything from jewellery and calligraphy workshops to recitals, Shakespeare and gigs,  in the three northern parishes of Winkfield, Warfield and Binfield. Lighting up local half term, it has again offered an amazing series of creative experiences! Notable amongst these is the exhibition of  art and craft at the Brownlow Hall. There are paintings by local bodies and groups such as the U3A and the Ascot Art Group, as well as sculpture and craft (see table for winners).

Outstanding’ nursing home in Ascot praised for ‘passion for care’

A nursing home in Ascot has been praised as “outstanding” by inspectors for its high quality of care and support.

The managers of St David’s Nursing home on Priory Road were noted by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to have “great passion” for the service they provided.  The CQC report stated how residents and families felt staff “go the extra mile” when supporting them and how residents felt they “really mattered to staff”.

The 39-bed home, set in the grounds of Ascot Priory, has been run by local family, the Tanners, for more than 30 years.  It has been awarded the highest accolade by the Care Quality Commission, the national body for regulating care homes, each time it has been inspected. 

The daughter of one resident said “there isn’t a better care home in the country my dad could be in.”

Ascot Business Park’s latest tenant, highly successful financial investment management company, FLYING COLOURS, takes last remaining floor of 2 Queen’s Square!

A 10-year lease has been granted to Flying Colours Finance Limited at a new record rent for the park of £26 per sq ft.

Salmon Harvester director Pat Mahoney said: “The rent achieved reflects the high quality of the space and its excellent location. We have now fully let 2 Queen’s Square and intend to bring the building to the investment market very shortly for sale.”

The remaining modern grade A offices at Ascot Business Park are available to occupiers to rent or to purchase with sizes ranging from 1,667 sq ft up to 14,200 sq ft.

Strutt & Parker and Campbell Gordon advised SHP with Flying Colours representing themselves.

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Following months of consultation, Thames Hospice has secured the option to purchase land to build a new 28-bed, purpose-built, hospice by Bray Lake in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead - subject to planning permission.

Debbie Raven, Chief Executive, Thames Hospice, said: “We have seen demand for all of our services increase year-on-year and we are at a point where we need to expand to meet the needs of our local community. Our current Hospice in Windsor is at maximum occupancy and we have up to 10 people per day waiting for much-needed care.  After reviewing a number of options to develop our existing site, we have concluded that it does not provide a solution to meet our future needs.

“A new purpose-built hospice would enable us to support more local people, through providing additional inpatient, outpatient and community services, building on the expert care delivered at our current facility in Windsor for almost 30 years.”

Papplewick Old Boys Kenza Wilks, Alex Howard-Vyse, and Ga Kitada have gone on to great things at their senior schools. They have been appointed Head Boy of Dulwich College, School Captain of Uppingham, and Deputy Head Boy of Harrow respectively.

Tom Bunbury, Headmaster at Papplewick School in Ascot, commented: “The three young men recently met up at a leadership conference at Wellington College, where they no doubt discussed how being in leadership positions at Papplewick helped them to reach their new exalted positions at their senior schools! We are very proud of all three boys.”

Alex and Kenza were joint Deputy Head Boys in 2012 while Ga was a School Prefect.