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Name: Anonymous on Jun 6, 2007Comments: I heartily agree. This move is not in the interest of the students at Highshore. The proposed space is cramped with little outside play area and there are serious and valid concerns about the safety of vulnerable young people in the colocated site as can be seen by the relentless and disturbing media reports.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jun 12, 2007Comments: Once you see the vulnerable children at Highshore playing confidently in their sanctuary of a playground in the current site, there is no way you would allow their outdoor space to be reduced or shared with mainstream students.Flag
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Name: Robin Jones on Jun 12, 2007Comments: To leave the most vulnerable without special provision would be bad enough, but to remove it from them when they have a proven wonder school is the worst face of pointless capitalism. This area of London will feel the sad effects of this decision for many a year once the affected children try to take their place in this community as adults.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jun 12, 2007Comments: In the main, Highshore's students live in built up areas and lead indoor lives. Science shows that outdoor space and fresh air are imperative to children psychologically, and even more so to those with learning difficulties. Currently, they have a large, private, green playground, in which they can flourish, socially and improve their fitness. Why should they lose this sanctuaryFlag
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Name: Sophia Stewart on Jun 12, 2007Comments: In the main, Highshore's students live in built up areas and lead indoor lives. Science shows that outdoor space and fresh air are imperative to children psychologically, and even more so to those with learning difficulties. Currently, they have a large, private, green playground, in which they can flourish, socially and improve their fitness. Why should they lose this sanctuaryFlag
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Name: Jemima Dawson on Jun 12, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Rachel Cooke on Jun 13, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Olivia Stewart-Liberty on Jun 13, 2007Comments: The Children of Highshore Special Needs School, Peckham NEED Highshore School. For most it is a life-line.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Jun 13, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Patricia Howe on Jun 13, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Alison Jennings on Jun 13, 2007Comments: Highshore is a successsful school educating and caring for some of the Capital's most vulnerable and needy students. The location in central Peckham allows access to many invaluable facilities but the school benefits from a peaceful and secluded outdoor space which is enjoyed by the students. Co-location with AMR (in a congested and busy area) would mean a loss of these facilities, a reduction in outside space and a considerable loss of autonomy (as access to some factilites would have to be negotiated). AMR will be an Academy and as such can operate totally outside the control of the local authority. HIGHSHORE STUDENTS HAVE A LOT TO LOSE.Flag
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Name: Tamsin John on Jun 14, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Jackie Cheeseman on Jun 14, 2007Comments: Every Child Matters including Every Disabled Child! 1) Being healthy - compromised through move to a congested area with little green space and drastic cut in play areas. 2) Staying safe - I am sorry but news reports and neighbours of the proposed site do not speak of a "safe" area conducive for vulnerable students. 3) Enjoy and achieve - not if the students are frightened to go to school. 4) Make a positive contribution - paucity of amenities in the surrounding area of the proposed site will lead to restrictions for Highshore students. 5) Achieve economic well-being - the well established careers/leavers programme will be in tatters given the environment Highshore will be moved to. Current site is well served with local businesses and transport routes as well as easy college links. The proposal means less choice for students and their families (roll reduction). Co-location should benefit ALL students.Flag
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Name: Peter Jones on Jun 16, 2007Comments: I object strongly to this relocation. Our children will be moved to a hostile and unsuitable environment. They will lose facilities which are not being replaced at the proposed site.Flag
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Name: Carla Mindel on Jun 16, 2007Comments: leave Highshore as it is, where it is.... !Flag
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Name: Carla Mindel on Jun 16, 2007Comments: leave Highshore as it is, where it is.... !Flag
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Name: Ross Mitchell on Jun 17, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Ross Mitchell on Jun 17, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Ross Mitchell on Jun 17, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: John Daprano on Jun 17, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Craig Mitchell on Jun 18, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Mysoon Ahmed on Jun 18, 2007Comments: Stop!!Flag
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Name: Christine Mitchell on Jun 18, 2007Comments: Highshore is a valued, highly regarded and much needed community resource. It should not be relocated.Flag
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Name: Christine Mitchell on Jun 18, 2007Comments: Highshore is a valued, highly regarded and much needed community resource. It should not be relocated.Flag
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Name: Peter Robert Adamczyk-Haswell on Jun 18, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Catherine Wood on Jun 18, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Michael Keen on Jun 18, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Michelle on Jun 18, 2007Comments: Dont close the school!!!!Flag
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Name: Angus Macdonald on Jun 18, 2007Comments: It is very to see any real advantages to Highshore or it's students in this move. Currently Highshore has a safe, secure, independent and spacious site located in the heart of the community in Peckham. Why trade this for a shared site with less outside space and poor transportand local facilitiesFlag
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Name: Angus Macdonald on Jun 18, 2007Comments: It is very to see any real advantages to Highshore or it's students in this move. Currently Highshore has a safe, secure, independent and spacious site located in the heart of the community in Peckham. Why trade this for a shared site with less outside space and poor transportand local facilitiesFlag
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Name: Alex Margolies on Jun 19, 2007Comments: It seems like a dodgy cost-cutting measure that will be of no benefit to the school in terms of the pupils or the staff.Flag
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Name: Teresa Hay on Jun 19, 2007Comments: I object to the proposed co-location of Highshore as it would be the wrong move for the children. Highshore is a safe secure site, with good relations with the Peckham community, this move wuld be unfair to the children as the new site is surrounded by busy roads and the fear of bullying from mainstream children is great. Keep the children safe and happy LEAVE HIGHSHORE WHERE IT ISFlag
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Name: Teresa Hay on Jun 19, 2007Comments: I object to the proposed co-location of Highshore as it would be the wrong move for the children. Highshore is a safe secure site, with good relations with the Peckham community, this move would be unfair to the children as the new site is surrounded by busy roads and the fear of bullying from mainstream children is great. Keep the children safe and happy LEAVE HIGHSHORE WHERE IT ISFlag
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Name: Anonymous on Jun 20, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Susan Powers on Jun 20, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Simon Bird on Jun 20, 2007Comments: My wife and I live across the street from Highshore school and think the move is yet another ridiculous way for the LA to cut costs at the students expense. These children need the current facilities and it is just appalling that they could be moved to a site with less to offer them. One of the many reasons we home educate our children. Leave Highshore School as it is!Flag
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Name: Ricky Cunningham on Jun 20, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Ricky Cunningham on Jun 20, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Ricky Cunningham on Jun 20, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Karen Durham-Diggins on Jun 20, 2007Comments: Why will no one listen This is shamefull.Flag
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Name: Robert Wood on Jun 21, 2007Comments: I am extremely disappointed that the current site is not going to be refurbished given the investment the school has put into it. We are very proud of our environment. I believe it is a big mistake to relocate the school to an area beset with social difficulties which so often revolve around the mainstream secondary schools in the locality and gang warfare.Flag
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Name: I Gray on Jun 21, 2007Comments: This must not happen. This school is a successful special school giving a high standard of care and education to a very needy and often deprived group of children who have failed the education system everywhere else. The present school although in need of a refurbishment provides a calm and pleasant and safe environment. There is a happy family atmosphere which is already being torn apart with all this high handed talk of relocation to another school. Please think again and give success a reward rather than anxiety and massive difficulties that will go with the tranfer of these students to a different place.Flag
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Name: Christine Allaway on Jun 22, 2007Comments: HighShore School is a safe secure site with a good realationships with Peckham Community. I feel we have been a successful school caring for many vulnerable students.Flag
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Name: Martha Singh Jennings on Jun 24, 2007Comments: I have visted Highshore several times and have been struck by the friendly, welcoming atmosphere of the school. The students clearly feel very safe and comfortable there. The site is ideal in that it is close enough to the centre of Peckham to allow strong local community ties, yet secluded enough that it seems almost an oasis for the students. Relocation to AMR would mean a loss of all these features of the school that are so important and would have a detrimental effect on the students.Flag
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Name: Keithorouke on Jun 26, 2007Comments: i feel that the plans to move highshore are one or the most stupid ideas i have eveer heardFlag
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Name: Henrietta Cooke on Jun 29, 2007Comments: Southwark's plans will remove fun, security, safety and open space from some of its most vulnerable children: Highshore will be squashed into the corner of a notoriously rough diocese run academy - the children will be overlooked, bullied, unsafe and have precious little outdoor space - it's a frightful prospect for them.Flag
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Name: Jordan Cleary on Jun 30, 2007Comments: there is hardly any special schools in the uk as it is without closing one down . also the special needs children experence experience bullying daily on the way to school just think about the rate it may be in amrFlag
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Name: Rachel Cunningham on Jun 30, 2007Comments: the meaning of a "special" school is to be isolated from a mainstream school to prevent physical bulling as well as emotinal traumaFlag
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Name: Clare Cunningham on Jun 30, 2007Comments: my little brother ricky attends highshore and he feels safe he attended a mainstream primary school and was bullied let alone him being placed in a mainstream secondary school keep highshore opennFlag
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Name: Anonymous on Jul 1, 2007Comments: PERHAPS SSF CAN GIVE HIGHSHORE MONEY TO BUILD ANOTHER FLOOR AND UPDATE THE BUILDING AT THE SAME SITE AS IT IS RATHER THAN ENDANGERING THEIR SOCIAL LIFES BY PLACING THEM IN CAMBERWELLFlag