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Breakfast at School offers an emotional, but positive glimpse into the life of a young mother, Joanne, who is struggling with Multiple Sclerosis and raising two young sons with her husband Les. The essence of the video is to show how this family, who naturally want the best for their children whilst still coping with Joanne’s debilitating illness, have taken advantage of both the breakfast and after school clubs at their sons' school.
Joanne says, "We're just a normal family, two boisterous boys, a husband who works, but a mum who is also disabled, but does everything that she can to make sure her boys have a good life at the moment."
Her husband Les talks about how finding out about Joanne’s illness took his breath away. He says, “I didn’t understand, couldn’t comprehend; the nature of MS is unpredictable. You can have two or three days where you’re quite competent, full of energy and then you’ll have a day where you’re quite down and tired and it makes it difficult.”
Joanne says, "If I'm feeling tired or have a lack of energy and I just need an extra hour at home, I can ring up the after school club and they will put them in. It’s just knowing that they are safe and they’re also having fun at the same time.”
One of Joanne’s sons says how much fun the after school club is. The clip shows the children working in their garden plot, using the school computers, colouring and reading books – just a few of the activities in which the children engage.
Les explains that when Joanne was in hospital for 8 weeks, the breakfast and after school clubs provided the facility where he could drop the boys off at 8 o’clock in the morning, know they were safe and cared for and pick them up after the after school club. He talks about how supportive and flexible the school has been.
Joanne concludes by saying, “I’m having chemotherapy at the moment to stabilise the MS, which seems to be working and my plans for the future are just to obviously get better and just be a healthy mum for my boys and give them a good life.”
To find out what help is available for you, please visit www.direct.gov.uk/parents or www.schoolsfinder.direct.gov.uk or call 0800 2346346. Alternatively, you can check with your child’s/children’s school.
