Gregg Wallace calls for SEND support as Kent school opens bus conversion

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The bus has been donated to Five Acre Wood School to be placed alongside their other refurbished projects, including a plane turned into a library, a lifeboat as a counselling hub and a train carriage as a cafe.

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00:00A Kent school is the last destination point for a double-decker bus.

00:03It will be joining a lifeboat and a plane once it has been given a new lease of life.

00:08Five Acre Wood School is a district special school for young people with learning difficulties,

00:13working to bring new ways to support their students to learn and grow.

00:17The host of the latest fundraiser explains the opportunities this new addition provides.

00:22So for me, I have no connection to the school whatsoever,

00:25but I've got the privilege of knowing Tim who's the head of the school.

00:28He's done a couple of tours for me at the school and I've seen first hand just

00:32the amazing work they do at the school. So this is just a snapshot of the opportunity

00:36really to raise more vital funds for services and equipment for those amazing children at the school.

00:42The school refurbishes donations such as the bus into unique spaces for the young people.

00:47The new addition will be joining an Airbus A319 which has been converted into a library

00:53and a 10 metre long lifeboat which is now a specialist counselling space.

00:57Fundraisers are a few ways the school brings these pioneering ideas to life.

01:02And amongst the community today, many familiar faces were there to help raise the money.

01:07I think we are a nation of generous people that want to help.

01:10And so I think it's important to help children with special needs, I think it is.

01:15But then it's a particular subject that's particularly close to me,

01:18of course, because of my little voice, Sid.

01:20I think if we all of us went out and lend a hand to hardworking charities and support groups,

01:27the world would be a better place.

01:29Today, community has come together to turn a double-decker bus into a soft play area.

01:33But what does this mean for the school?

01:35The really amazing thing, we've obviously got donated the bus.

01:39But from that, the other opportunities that we've got.

01:43So we're working with Kent County Council to make a How to Catch a Bus video.

01:51And that will be for our older pupils.

01:53But that's the exciting thing, that from that connection we've built with Norman Kent,

01:58this has now come out of that, if that makes sense.

02:00So again, that's entered a different world of collaborating with our community

02:06and providing different opportunities for our pupils and our youngsters.

02:10From the work of the fundraiser team and the community coming together,

02:14they have managed to raise the money to convert this bus and give a new space for the school.

02:18Daisy Page for KMTV.

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