A different world, in some respects!
It is now midwinter in the Summer Hemisphere. Just published on line is the ten-page August edition of the Newsletter of the New Zealand Foundation for Conductive Education, the fullest such publication anywhere in the word of CE:
http://www.conductive-education.org.nz/Newsletter.pdf
This reminds me that New Zealand schools have just returned from their two-week winter holiday, that they have earthquakes down there and that, not unlike this summer in the Heart of England, it is raining a lot.
More pressingly, the Newsletter devotes considerable and detailed attention to the funding cuts affecting three New Zealand primary-school CE units, and to what is being done to combat these. Some ugly uncaring politics at the national level, by the sound of it. Some tough in-fighting ahead. Good luck to you, Kiwis.
At the more positive levell of the ‘real world’ of Conductive Education, however, the Newsletter reports active work towards further extension of the network, with a facility at an Auckland primary school and extension services for young adults in Christchurch both on the cards. The regular centre-by-centre news update features clients, conductors and other staff. A lot is happening at the grass roots, including now at secondary-school level: food for thought at both levels for conductivists elsewhere in the world, most of whom do not enjoy the benefits of effective national coordination.
Wherever you are, the New Zealand model looks to offer you a useful precedent, then it might prove useful to add to your ammunition a copy of the inexpensive (NZ$ 9.00) promotional DVD advertised on the final page.
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