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Hi everyone,

Well, how are you all? Good I hope. It’s good to be back and whilst not quite totally in the swing of it yet – I think that will come from Monday – it’s been great to see the pupils again in the last few days after a couple of training days. I really do hope you’ve had the holiday you wanted, and a lovely time together

We’ll be sending out our blogs again – this one, Eileen’s Family Liaison blog and one for Online Safety. I don’t have too much news or too many stars this week I’m afraid, as I write this after the children have only really just settled in and got to know their new arrangements. I hope that yours has come back happy! And I hope that you are too!

The new events calendar for 24-25 is online, on the Parent and Carers Area of the website, so please do take a look

Our Key Drivers are Communication, Wellbeing and Independence – they are the point of our school. If you’re reading this in Word, they are at the bottom of every page, and what our whole curriculum is based on

Our School Values are Respect, Teamwork and Resilience – that’s the kind of school we strive to be. Our Stars of the Week, school rules and behaviour plans are based on them too and you may be able to see them at the top of every page of this blog. You can certainly see them written all around school

There has been some very nice work done in the school over the summer too – painting, some more overhead hoists, more air-conditioning, and our new Pilates Studio, which I couldn’t resist showing you below! Hopefully you will get to see these things when you come to the school for one event or another – a Coffee & Catch-up session, one of Kasia, Sarah or Rebecca’s, or one of Eileen’s, a consultation, review, or any other reason

Whenever you do come, I wish and your child all the very best for the year. I hope they make fantastic progress, and I hope they’re happy coming in every day. We’re certainly very happy to have them

All the best. See you soon

John S

We’re so pleased with our new Pilates studio that was put in over the summer! Gonna be a great addition to the school. Together with the Hellens Sensory Motor Suite that we had installed last year, and our pool, we’re really building up the right levels of resources and opportunities for the pupils. Got to keep going though! 😊

Here’s Ruth making sure it’s all done properly! And the room under construction!

We have 3 Super Steering Groups which deliver our Key Drivers through our curriculum –

Communication, Wellbeing and Independence

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Literacy

Becky, our Literacy Lead, leads a team that improve all aspects of literacy, including this year a lot of handwriting and oracy (it’s OK, she’ll be going into explain all of that) as well as reading, phonics, books and all sorts!

Physical Development

Everything that is fabulous in the world of Physical Development! This includes physio, hydro, MOVE, PE, HI, VI, a lot of OT and all sorts of key areas for us, including all of the Outdoor Learning, John Muir Award and many other aspects. Steph oversees this and will ensure that an aspect is shared in the blog each week.

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Personal Development

One of the best things about the school and one of the most important for our pupils, PD covers PSHE, Wellbeing, Careers, Social Moral Spiritual & Cultural, Online Safety, Behaviour and similar areas. Jo pulls it all together. A different aspect will be covered in the blog each week

Student Leavers in July

One thing that you may be interested in is that our student leavers in July have gone on to the destinations of their choice – mostly colleges, and some other learning places too. It’s really great to see, and the leavers’ assembly is one of the highlights of the year. It’s so important for us that when students leave us they go on to where they want and need to, and it’s a huge part of our job to help them to do that.

If you want to talk at all to anyone about what comes next for your son or daughter, then please do. The Class Team will point you to the right people – most probably Louise F, who I know many of you already know! 😊

Finally

It is really good to be back, and I’m looking forward to things starting up again here in earnest. We really do want the time your child has here to be fulfilling because it’s been a partnership with you – and it will definitely be more successful if it is. We won’t always get things right but we are always open to improving! The pupils will do so much better if we are all working together, so thank you for your support up until now, and I look forward to doing great things together as time goes on! All the best

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