SEN classroom assistants embrace school opportunity

Classroom assistants Dan McKee and and Ben McCreight are embracing their roles at Clandeboye Primary School.

The principal, Julie Bishop, said that Dan, who has Down’s syndrome, and Ben, who has a learning disability, are making a difference to everyone.

“With us working now fully with children who have additional needs, I think it’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,” she said.

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.