The lives you’ve changed… Tara’s story Teaching Assistant Tara has been working at a secondary school supporting pupils with SEN for the last two years and loves her job. Prior to this, she was a primary TA. She said: “Most of my time was spent supporting a student who has autism in all her lessons and I helped her into a routine that she was comfortable with.” “She was reluctant to come to school at the start of the year, but her confidence really grew and she soon settled into a routine that worked well.” Tara takes great pride in having helped the student to such an extent that she began coming into school every day. Due to the continued school closures, Tara was forced to work from home, while her daughter was also home-schooling.
she doesn’t live nearby and it involved a car journey for her which wasn’t very practical during lockdowns. “Once libraries shut I was really stuck. A laptop was too expensive. Previously we were always able to go there to use one.” Education Support was able to help Tara and her daughter with a grant towards the cost of a laptop. Tara added: “I’m so grateful. It will make a huge difference. Without it I wouldn’t be able to work at home and neither could my daughter.”
The pandemic has presented a huge variety of challenges for education “It’s been difficult. My daughter and staff, whether they’re teaching in I were trying to access our work sharing school, at home, or often both! We can my phone but it wasn’t easy. We could sometimes borrow my Mum’s laptop and only provide the help that teachers and other staff need with your generosity. she would leave it on the doorstep, but
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