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Gateway School join up to pioneering initiative
Schoolchildren in Great Missenden are facing up to an educational challenge after The Gateway School adopted a pioneering educational initiative.
The Gateway, an independent school, has integrated a computer-based memory improvement programme into its curriculum.
The Cogmed Working Memory Training system was developed in Sweden by a top neurologist and a high powered group flew to Bucks from Stockholm to talk about the system after management at The Gateway expressed an interest in knowing more.
Teacher Astrid Axson has been the driving force behind persuading the school to adopt the system. She said: "It will help improve the working memory of pupils and that has to be positive."
Mrs Axson said training involved five weeks of intensive computer-based work. "We are now training 16 11-year-old children on the system, " she said.
Mrs Axson thanked colleagues Lilianne Kilshaw, Matt Smith and Judith Ellis whose efforts, she said, had been unstinting.
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