Mary Hare Grammar School, Berkshire

Passed entrance exam to secure one of only thirty places to gain entry into the UK’s only grammar school for the deaf aged 10 in Newbury, Berkshire.

Magnificent and eloquent the school may have been, with vasts tracts of grounds and state of the art equipment but its failure to provide staff who lacked compassion and empathy meant after five short weeks, Carl’s parents decided to withdraw him from the school – a fine education was no substitute for the wellbeing of their son..