What people are saying about A Quiet Place ® Ltd.

What the press think of A Quiet Place ®

"I feel I have been presented with a wonderful opportunity to develop an area of school life, which truly has the potential of delivering life skills to children and families."
"This project is dynamic. It is hands on. It is meaningful to the individual and it delivers strategies to individual."
"It delivers approaches, which can permeate whole school behavioural policies and programmes."
"Our A Quiet Place ® room is a joy - when you step into it your blood pressure goes down and your feel-good factor goes up. It really does have a tangible atmosphere, which enables children to move into a mode where they can get in touch with feelings, open themselves up to sensory awareness and begin to appreciate and benefit from the therapeutic influences. These influences are felt throughout the school as staff adopt practices into the daily life of classrooms."
"I am delighted to have been involved with this project.."
(Joan Kershaw Headteacher Aspinall School Manchester October 2003)
"The set-up in a former medical room at Purley Oaks Primary School is just about as far removed from the traditional bustling classroom as you could imagine."
(Croydon Local Newspaper)
"The aim is to offer a therapeutic, healing environment to boost any "troubled" pupils, promoting a calming atmosphere throughout the school to aid better learning."
(Croydon Local Newspaper)
Cllr Woodley said "We are delighted that it appears to be benefiting everyone within the school environment, not just those pupils with emotional and behavioural difficulties."
(Croydon Local Newspaper)
"A dozen children per week use A Quiet Place ® on six week stints for about 40minutes a session. While there, they can indulge in anything from playing musical instruments, painting and puppetry to being instructed in relaxation and viualisation techniques."

(Croydon Local Newspaper)
"Pupils may be referred to A Quiet Place ®
because they lack self-esteem, have suffered family break-ups or have had a bereavement and have no-one to turn to. We have already noticed that some pupils who would formerly have lost their temper and acted aggressively are easier to calm down since they have started using A Quiet Place ®. Being more relaxed also makes them more ready to listen in the classrooms so there are educational spin-offs, too."
(Croydon Local Newspaper)
"They enjoy the peace of A Quiet Place ®, especially when there is so much happening in their own lives. One girl was in tears because she had real problems sleeping. Within a week of a relaxation tape being made for her, she could sleep soundly at night. A Boy who seemed hyperactive both at home and in school has shown vast improvements in concentration and self-control after a couple of sessions in the special environment."
(Croydon Local Newspaper)
"The magic is not lost on Year 1 children, seven of whom sit spellbound on the floor while A Quiet Place ® co-ordinator Joy Jones reads to them. "Did you like the story? she asks. "Yeah," goes up a grave chorus from the small boys with bristiling haircuts and pale faces."
(Times Educational Supplement)
"Magic is the word most commonly used in connection with the A Quiet Place ® Room."
(Times Educational Supplement)
"If the environment is magical, so too is its effect on children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. New age in flavour, the A Quiet Place ® room runs a holistic programme, offering children counselling, massage and therapeutic play, as well as storytelling, art and music workshops. Parents are offered their own relaxation and counselling sessions, plus advice on dietary strategies and alternative medicines for hyperactivity, asthma, eczema and some of the recurrent infections that plague many of the children."
(Times Educational Supplement)
"Teachers are also invited to make use of massage and aromatherapy sessions, and work closely with key workers to refer children and monitor progress. "We can't come into a hostile staff environment" Says Penny Moon "Staff are trained to link the A Quiet Place ® philosophy to the classroom."
(Times Educational Supplement)
"It's helped enormously. The message puts children in a calm frame of mind where they're more likely to build up trust with people in school," Ms Auton says. "Many of our children are distrustful because they've had negative experiences with adults outside school, or they don't believe people could possibly like them." She sites the example of a boy from a family with a long history of school rejection, who arrived at Millwood with "no eye contact, smiles or speech" and was referred to the project. "Almost immediately he began to be more cheerful and to smile." She says, "Now he's eight and happily coming to school everyday."
(Times Educational Supplement)