Zachary Mayes has had 16 casts on his clubfoot since 2017, but he never thought a program at his school in south-west Sydney would help him reach personal goals as well as academic ones.
Zachary Mayes can clearly remember the best day of his life.
He and his family have developed a special bond with the school after Zachary got far more out of its learning practices than they expected.The school has borrowed and repurposed ideas from other schools across NSW, Victoria and South Australia which have all been networking as part of a pilot program for about five years.
"Before the [cross-country] run my foot was really tight but I was gritty and kept going even when it was hard. I was positive and believed in myself," Zachary said.Zachary employs life-size alien characters developed by the students to help in class, the hospital when he was getting treatment, and in day-to-day life.
"It has made such a huge difference to how he's approached the challenges that clubfoot has thrown at him," Ms Mayes said. It found linking these schools from different education systems led to 100 per cent of participating principals reporting they had gained an improved knowledge of effective learning practices.
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