Alison Bailey:  Senior School Leader/Autism awareness

Education

Alison has recently retired from being Senior Leader at Oaks Park High School having been Head of Horizon . This entailed leading Autism bases for students in a mainstream school; enabling all children to have equal access to learning and to achieve positive outcomes.  

Please find out more information about Alison's career on this page.

A messsage about Autism:

"It is so important to be understanding.   This involves thinking about your reaction to autistic students and how they express their feelings. The key is being KIND and accepting people for who they are; not choosing to have a reaction from  autistic people but educating yourself to the needs of and importance of routines for autistic people." 

Alison Bailey



Alison's Questions:

  1. Can you tell us about your career history? How did you work your way up?
  2. What was your area of specialism?
  3. Is teamwork important/How important is it to manage teams effectively?
  4. Why is autism important to you?
  5. What strategies work with autistic students?
  6. How did you integrate autistic students into a mainstream school?
  7. What aspects of your role were you the most proud of?
  8. How did you manage budgets?



Alison has kindly offered to answer any further questions.  Please email Mrs Piggin if you wish to forward any to her.