A Livingston school which provides specialist education for young people with severe and complex medical needs has received a second financial boost in a matter of weeks.
The school, which provides innovative support and education for children from three to eighteen years old, discovered last month that it’s set to move to a new multi-million-pound campus, after it was selected to be part of the Scottish Government’s new School Investment Programme.
Now, local charity Radio Forth’s Cash for Kids has agreed to match-fund £1831, which local parents and teachers had raised as part of Cash for Kids Superhero Day.
The Cash for Kids Board were so impressed with the schools fundraising efforts that they agreed to fund an additional £898 to support the children at the school.
The school received the good news after it raised more than any other campus throughout the region.
Angela Curran, whose 12-year-old son Luca attends the school, led the initiative. She said: “We decided to take part in Cash for Kids Superhero Day because we wanted to do our bit as parents to help the school and say thanks for the wonderful work the teachers and staff do here.
“Our children receive an amazing education, but it’s about so much more than that. They have specialist needs and standard school environments would struggle to provide the right level of one-on-one care.
Coming here every day is an absolute joy for Luca, and all the other children. It feels like a second home. We’re incredibly excited about the new campus, and delighted that we now have even more funding to help our kids flourish.”
Headteacher at the Beatlie School, Carol Robbie, added: “In Beatlie we work with children with profound and complex disabilities. We work hard to ensure that they access a wide range of appropriate, stimulating and fun learning experiences.
“It’s very important to us that the children get out and about in the community as much as possible and this means hiring lots of wheelchair accessible minibuses on a very regular basis.
“The money raised through the efforts of all involved with the Cash for Kids initiative, will ensure that our children and young people continue to attend Riding for the Disabled, swimming and a wide variety of curricular activities throughout the school, from Early Learning and Childcare to Senior Phase.
“Many, many thanks to everyone, with a special big thank you to Luca’s mum Angela for signing us up to take part.”
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