{"id":1842,"date":"2012-09-12T11:45:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T11:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2012-09-12T12:11:06","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T12:11:06","slug":"luing-exploring-differences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/?p=1842","title":{"rendered":"Luing exploring differences"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>All of the children from nursery to P7 had the opportunity to experience what it felt like to be in a wheelchair.\u00a0 The children each had a turn sitting in and pushing the wheelchair. \u00a0They found the experience interesting, the scariest thing they found was that they had to trust the person pushing them.<\/p>\n

The children also wore blindfolds and had to find their way around the school.\u00a0 A new experience of goalball (with blindfolds) was introduced in the classroom and then extended into a full P.E. experience in the hall.<\/p>\n

Here are some quotes from the children’s written work about their experiences:<\/p>\n

“I discovered that the person in the wheelchair had to trust the person to steer it and keep it under control to get somewhere.”<\/p>\n

“It was really hard to push the wheelchair on rough ground, also because it’s really heavy.”<\/p>\n

“It was extremely hard to move using the crutches because your arms were taking the weight of your body.”<\/p>\n

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“It was scary pushing the wheelchair because you were afraid you would drop them.”<\/p>\n

“Being in the wheelchair was really frightening especially descending the stairs because you got tipped up and it was bumpy going.”<\/p>\n

“The crutches were sore on your arms and it was and it was really hard ascending the stairs.”<\/p>\n

“Pushing the wheelchair was not fun because you didn’t want to let your friend fall forwards.”<\/p>\n

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All of the children from nursery to P7 had the opportunity to experience what it felt like to be in a wheelchair.\u00a0 The children each had a turn sitting in and pushing the wheelchair. \u00a0They found the experience interesting, the scariest thing they found was that they had to trust the person pushing them. The … Continue reading Luing exploring differences<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":207,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3360],"tags":[3759],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-primary-schools","tag-luing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1847,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ab\/SAL\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}