Shottery St Andrew’s School community welcomes Artie Hill, four, who has rare disease Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy

THE Shottery St Andrew’s community has taken to its heart the saying that it takes a village to raise a child while welcoming Artie, a very special new reception class pupil.

Last year, Artie’s mum and dad, Carrie and Greg Hill, were given the devastating news that their toddler son had the rare life-limiting genetic disease Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy (DMD).

It usually only affects boys as it is carried on the X chromosome, and luckily Artie’s older sisters, Lily, 15, and Linnea, eight, are unaffected.