Jack Taylor News

Stop Press !!! OFSTED Inspection Next Tuesday Wednesday

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The school heard on Friday that we will be inspected by an OFSTED team led by lead Inspector Mike Kell on Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th May 2010 – next week !

This is a major event in any school’s life, and though a little stressful for all concerned, we are confident that we can give of our best for the inspection team.

All parents will by now have received a questionnaire – please fill these in and return them by Tuesday at the latest so that they can inform the judgement of the inspectors.

The questionnaires are confidential and will not be seen by staff at the school – only by the OFSTED team.

Thank you

Stephen Smith

Headteacher

Newsletter 10th May 2010

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NEWSLETTER

Week Beginning: 10th May 2010

Blog http://jacktaylorschool.blogspot.com/

STAR OF THE WEEK AWARDS

PURPLE CLASS: Reon for fantastic behaviour

YELLOW CLASS: Malachi for enjoying the hydro pool without his gaitors on

BLUE CLASS: Keith-Phil for PECs work with Gary Dadd

RED CLASS: Ismail for walking in his walker for the first time

SECONDARY 1: Aaron for excellent participation in speech therapy

SECONDARY 2: Shahidul for overcoming his fear of dogs on Friday afternoon.

SECONDARY 3: Joshua for remembering 2 items on our shopping list

POST 16: Charlie Daley for participating well in Work Experience

We still have vacancies for Parent Governors. If you have a child who has recently started school we would be particularly interested in having you as a Governor. Full training can be given and we are able to reimburse childcare costs when you attend meetings. Please contact the school if you are interested.

Halal Food

We’d like to ask parents about Halal Food provision.

At the moment our school lunch is not Halal - and we provide a vegetarian alternative meal for students who do not wish to eat Halal meat. We don’t have the facilities to provide both a Halal meal, and non-Halal alternative - it has to be one or the other - although we will always be able to provide a vegetarian option. At the moment we have no plans to change to a Halal diet - but would consider this if there was enough support from parents, and no major objections.

If you have any thoughts on this please could you let us know.

REMINDER:

This years WHEELATHON will be taking place on Wednesday 12^th May @ Copthall Sports Centre.

Every Thursday at 10am-11am there is a weekly Body Signing Group for parents in the PMLD focus group with Becky and her team and Alex from the SLT team. Come and learn some signs for you to use with your child and get a free booklet. Meet other parents and learn something new. We’d love to see you there!

Newsletter 3rd May 2010

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Jack Taylor School

NEWSLETTER

Week Beginning: 3^rd May 2010

Blog http://jacktaylorschool.blogspot.com/

STAR OF THE WEEK AWARDS

PURPLE CLASS: Salaban for fantastic walking in his walker

YELLOW CLASS: Lascelle consistently using a switch for his favourite music ‘Lady Gaga’

BLUE CLASS: Rubel for excellent work on the computer, he was able to answer quiz questions in the game

RED CLASS: Catalina for brushing her teeth

SECONDARY 1: Donjeta for good, spontaneous, independent choosing

SECONDARY 2: Sabia for achieving above and beyond her targets this week

SECONDARY 3: Sean for wheeling himself to Tesco and back

POST 16: Palwasha for starting her Work Experience

REMINDER: THURSDAY 6^TH MAY – SCHOOL CLOSED

Southbank Internation School

We are joining students at Southbank on Friday 7^th May for master class basketball sessions with paralympian Jayant Mistry.

Reminder – The Annual Wheelathon is taking place Wednesday 12^th May – Sponser forms attached.

Halal Food

We’d like to ask parents about Halal Food provision.

If you have any thoughts on this please could you let us know.

Newsletter 26th April 2010

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Jack Taylor School

START OF TERM NEWSLETTER

Week Beginning: 26^th April 2010

Blog http://jacktaylorschool.blogspot.com/

STAR OF THE WEEK AWARDS

PURPLE CLASS: Lucas, because he has come into school happy all week.

YELLOW CLASS: Umar for really good talking.

BLUE CLASS: Shirwa for excellent behaviour and sitting really nicely during circle time.

RED CLASS: Elton for working really hard.

SECONDARY 1: Hilda for helping and being a good friend to Donjeta.

SECONDARY 2: Darrell for good craftsmanship during cooking.

SECONDARY 3: Hadi & Joshua for good communication with their peers.

POST 16: Omar for working hard in every session and being very helpful.

NEW STAFF

We welcome Chris Bird to the school. Chris has taken up the post of Secondary Department Curriculum Leader.

IMPORTANT DATES

SCHOOL CLOSURE: THURSDAY 6^TH MAY 2010 – POLLING DAY

Parents Support Group meeting with Educational Pschologists – WEDNESDAY 26^TH MAY – 9.30 a.m. – 11.30 a.m.

And WEDNESDAY 7^TH JULY – 9.30 a.m – 11.30 a.m.

CHOICES AFTER SCHOOL CLUB WILL BEGIN THIS WEDNESDAY 28^TH APRIL AT JACK TAYLOR SCHOOL.

WHEELATHON (Charity Fundraiser) information on this event will follow later. WEDNESDAY 12^TH MAY, 10 a.m. – 11.30 a.m. with Southbank International School at Copthall Sports Ground –

CHANGES TO SCHOOL LUNCH MONEY - REMINDER

As from Monday 19^th April 2010 School lunch prices are changing from £1.90 per day to £1.95 a day.

CLASS NEWS:

Purple class is so excited to be back at school! We have a new class teacher and her name is Michaela. Our class this term is learning about the sea. We have already made some wonderful fish and crab hand prints and we have been reading a funny story about a commotion in the ocean.

Secondary 3 – Our class team is made up of Miranda, Robert and Kate. Our project theme is ‘Animals’. We will be inter-linking this subject into science, by looking at food chains and different species, humanities and drama by looking at different climates where animals live. We hope to take a trip to London Zoo where we can explore everything closely.

Yellow Class – This term the topic for yellow class will be the sea and we are hoping to go to the London Aquarium. We also have a new little girl in our class and her name is Shyma. Luckily we still have the same staff that we had last term in yellow class and if you need to talk to Mary about anything, just call the office and leave a message. Mary, Mirella, Irina & Anna.

Post 16 – We are very pleased to be back at school. This term we will continue working on our usual timetable as well as starting a new activity on Wednesday afternoons, this will be Horticulture provided by Action for Kids. As part of our Healthy Eating Scheme, we have already started to prepare a vegetable garden outside of our class, then we will cook the vegetables in our food technology session. Natalie, Cheryl, Tony, & Lauren.

Secondary 2 – This term we are looking at different animals in different environments. We are also listening and acting to songs about animals.

Will, Linda, & Shaku.

In the PMLD focus group this term we will hopefully be having lots of visitors! All parents of students who access the base have been invited to come in on Thursday mornings from 10.00 to learn body-signing as well as some other communication activities. The groups are being run with the speech and language therapy team and the base group staff, we really hope to see lots of you here.

Becky, Tricia & Sheila.

Secondary 1 – A big hello to all the parents and carers of pupils at Jack Taylor School. My name is Chris Bird and I am joining you from a special school in East London. I shall be working with Jane, Michela and Errol in Secondary 1 and I am replacing Emma Keegan as the Curriculum Leader for the Secondary Department. I am looking forward to meeting everyone and getting to know you all.

Red Class – Welcome back to the summer term. Everyone in Red class is excited to be learning about the beach this term. We will be exploring the beach environment through touch, smell and feel. Out visits to the British Museum will soon come to an end, we will be finishing this unit of work with a celebration amongst friends. We wish everyone an enjoyable summer term.

Blue Class - This term Blue class will be working on a new topic ‘Seaside, Earth and Water’. We are planning to be very active and do lots of physical activities such as yoga, obstacle courses, games, swimming etc. But the biggest part of our work will be focused on developing communication both expressive and comprehensive.

Newsletter 15th March 2010

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Jack Taylor School

NEWSLETTER

Week Beginning: Monday 15^th March 2010

Blog http://jacktaylorschool.blogspot.com/

STAR OF THE WEEK AWARDS

PURPLE CLASS: Corey for working well and communicating with a switch

YELLOW CLASS: Yared for good vocalisation and switch work

BLUE CLASS: Godwin for excellent cooking with the visiting chefs

RED CLASS: Ismail for good switch work

SECONDARY 1: Smith for being a supportive friend and role model to others

SECONDARY 2: Jubeda for lovely interacting with others at the Francis Holland Disco

POST 16: Paul for good independent drumming

SCHOOL TRANSPORT

If you are experiencing or have any difficulties or enquiries about transport please phone them direct. As always, we are happy to give advice or support to you but the transportation of your child to and from school do not come under our responsibility.

Contact details are as follows:

0207 7974 6736 for the main switchboard, alternatively phone Angela Taffe direct on 02079746728.

MARIE CURIE DAFFODIL APPEAL

We are currently selling the Marie Curie Daffodils in school which supports the fundraising to help provide dedicated care at Marie Curie hospices for those suffering with cancer. Please send in £1 to purchase your daffodil and support this worthy cause. Daffodils will be on sale all week at school.

FRANCIS HOLLAND DISCO

We would like to give a big thank you to the students at Francis Holland School who hosted a Disco for all the secondary students last Thursday. They all had a wonderful time.

SEAL : THE THEME FOR THIS HALF TERM IS: ‘FRIENDSHIPS’

Who are my Friends?

GOODBYE TO JODY THE SCHOOL NURSE

We would like to say goodbye and thank you to Jody Levy our school nurse who is leaving us from 26^th March to work at Beatrice Tate School. We wish her well in her new post and appreciate all her hard work in supporting the pupils and parents of the school.

Parents / Carer consent forms.

Please return the photography consent forms to school as soon as possible.

DOWN SYNDROME DAY 21^st MARCH 2010

We will be celebrating in school on MONDAY 22^nd MARCH. To signify the day and raise awareness we will be asking everyone to wear something green to school.

For more details go online at www.worlddownsyndromeday.org

MAKATON SIGNS OF THE WEEK – SPRING 2010

GO COME STOP

If you would like to know more about Makaton signs or would like additional copies please contact your child’s class teacher.

SYMBOLS OF THE WEEK – SPRING 2010

COME STOP GO

If you would like to know more about Symbols or would like additional copies please contact your child’s class teacher.

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Gathering Parent and Carer Views.

In order to support our school improvement we would appreciate it if you could take a little time to respond to the questions below.

Please tick under the heading(s) you most agree with and return to Lucia or Julie at school

SPIRITUAL, MORAL, SOCIAL & CULTURAL DEVELOPEMENT

Disagree

Agree

Don’t Know

The school promotes spiritual and cultural development recognising and celebrating pupils’ cultural diversity.

The school promotes moral development through guiding pupils to understand right from wrong.

The school promotes social development by celebrating different communities and how they live.

The school promotes and celebrates the richness and diversity of the school community.

Families and friends are encouraged to share their cultural experiences with the school and its community.

8th March 2010

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Jack Taylor School

NEWSLETTER

Week Beginning: Monday 8^th March 2010

Blog http://jacktaylorschool.blogspot.com/

STAR OF THE WEEK AWARDS

PURPLE CLASS: Christina for floating using a noodle during swimming

YELLOW CLASS: Uma for initiating communication with a friend

BLUE CLASS: Ruweyda for excellent counting in maths

RED CLASS: Joy and Ezaz for their excellent swimming and Christian for demonstrating initiative and independently going to the hall for lunch

SECONDARY 1: Donjeta for her good PECS work

SECONDARY 2: Sabia for floating on her back at swimming

POST 16: Omar for great effort with his work experience and Catherine with the gardening project.

Home School Communication

We are always trying to look at easier ways of communicating with parents/carers about how we work with their sons/daughters and the progress they make in school.

At the moment all pupils have home school diaries and we have regular progress meetings throughout the year in school.

We now have the opportunity to extend our technology to support this very important area. We are trying out, with a small number of pupils, using recordable books and video cameras to further develop our relationship with families.

This will involve a very simple small video camera which will fit into a computer or television to play back. School can record a pupil working and parents/carers can do the same at home. We also have books which can have pictures put in and a recordable button for comment.

If the trial is successful we believe this form of technology could be used by most parents/carers and teachers to start a computerised record of pupils progress which would be personal to each family. We would also run training in school.

I will keep you informed.

Julie Ashmore – Deputy Head

AFTER SCHOOL CLUB

We are currently working in partnership with the disability youth service to bring the ‘Choices’ club to JTS. After the Easter break, we hope to run the club from the school and to increase the numbers of places available. We will be contacting parents and carers whose child is 11 years or older shortly to offer places. Letters of consent will be sent to parents and carers interested in taking up the places.

RECIPE BOOK – School Fundraising Project

Please send in any recipes you have that we can put into a school recipe book.

SEAL : THE THEME FOR THIS HALF TERM IS: ‘FRIENDSHIPS’

How do I look help my friends?

Yoga Training

Jo from the special needs Yoga centre in Kensal Rise will be coming into school to deliver training for staff over the next 2 weeks. This will support the Yoga sessions taking place in both departments each week.

Work Experience

Well done to the post 16 students who have started well with their work experience and independent travel training. The students are working at Mail Out in Kentish Town for the rest of the academic year. Good luck!

MAKATON SIGNS OF THE WEEK – SPRING 2010

FORGET REMEMBER

If you would like to know more about Makaton signs or would like additional copies please contact your child’s class teacher.

SYMBOLS OF THE WEEK – SPRING 2010

FORGET REMEMBER

If you would like to know more about Symbols or would like additional copies please contact your child’s class teacher.

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Gathering Parent and Carer Views.

In order to support our school improvement we would appreciate it if you could take a little time to respond to the questions below.

Please tick under the heading(s) you most agree with and return to Lucia or Julie at school

PUPIL’S FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

Disagree

Agree

Don’t Know

The school encourages full involvement of parents and carers at times of key decision making such as IEP, annual reviews and Person centred planning.

The school values parental views in planning for each pupil’s future learning.

The school prepares my child well for their future education.

The school offers its pupils opportunities for work related activities and learning.

Newsletter 1st March 2010

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Jack Taylor School

NEWSLETTER

Week Beginning: Monday 1^st March 2010

Blog http://jacktaylorschool.blogspot.com/

STAR OF THE WEEK AWARDS

PURPLE CLASS: Corey Bond for good switch work and using body cues to sign ‘more’

YELLOW CLASS: Sameha Begum for floating on her back in the swimming pool

BLUE CLASS: Keith Phil Omoqui for excellent behaviour

RED CLASS: Catalina Banol for independently pulling up her trousers

SECONDARY 1: Aaron Ford for remaining on task with his independent work

SECONDARY 2: Shahidul Haque for good swimming

SECONDARY3: Joshua Brown, Hadi Dbouk and Sean Martin for their efforts in the Regional Panathalon event.

POST 16: Paul Ferdinand for good art work

SEAL : THE THEME FOR THIS HALF TERM IS: ‘FRIENDSHIPS’

What emotions do we feel when we think about our friends?

New Staff

We are please to welcome new staff to the school that will be joining the therapy teams.

Patrick Carpenter is joining us as the new Physiotherapy assistant. Patrick has worked at the school before so is knows the children and staff. He will be starting the post full time.

We have a new Occupational Therapist joining our school called Emily Matthews.

YOGA

We are please to say that a yoga club has started on Friday lunchtimes. We are also fortunate to have primary and secondary workshops in Yoga running on Mondays. We hope to develop staff skills from this and be able to carry this on at a regular basis.

Trampoline.

We are thrilled to have an indoor trampoline at school. The physiotherapists have introduced Rebound therapy sessions to develop pupils’ balance, reflex and gross motor skills. Their work has started in the primary department and has initially been received positively and with great enthusiasm.

Grants

We are please to have won some funding from the Aiming High and Extended services. The money will be used to develop parent / carer facilities and information services and we hope to set up a sensory and sensory integration borrowing service for pupils and their families and after school clubs.

Watch this space! ………………..

MAKATON SIGNS OF THE WEEK – SPRING 2010

CLOTHES GET DRESSED

If you would like to know more about Makaton signs or would like additional copies please contact your child’s class teacher.

SYMBOLS OF THE WEEK – SPRING 2010

CLOTHES T-SHIRT

TROUSERS TRAINERS DRESS

UNDERWEAR UNDERWEAR SHOES

If you would like to know more about Symbols or would like additional copies please contact your child’s class teacher.

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Gathering Parent and Carer Views.

In order to support our school improvement we would appreciate it if you could take a little time to respond to the questions below.

Please tick under the heading(s) you most agree with and return to Lucia or Julie at school

The Wider Community

Disagree

Agree

Don’t Know

My child has opportunities to work and interact with the local community

The school offers opportunities for my child to be involved in the wider community.

I am kept informed about the work the school does in the local community.

The school should do more to include parents and carers in the wider school community.

Additional Comments.

If you would like to have you say on ways we could improved access to the wider school community please add you comments below.

Many thanks

Newsletter 8th February 2010

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Jack Taylor School

NEWSLETTER

Week Beginning: Monday 8^th February

Blog http://jacktaylorschool.blogspot.com/

STAR OF THE WEEK AWARDS

PURPLE CLASS: Christina Ajimotokin for excellent sensory work

YELLOW CLASS: Uma Rahmanfor good work using PECs

BLUE CLASS: Godwin Lukembisa for good work in PE

RED CLASS: Elton Ramadani for exploring textures with his feet and Ismail Mohammed for using his switch independently

SECONDARY 1: Samira Gamra for her good art work at college

SECONDARY 2: Darrell Morris for fantastic PECs work

SECONDARY3 Hadi Debouk for participating positively in PE

POST 16: Catherine Moore for her effort with the gardening project

SCHOOL DATES

Just a reminder to all parents and carers that this Friday, 12^th February, school will be finishing for the half term break. School will start again on Monday 22^nd February.

INSET TRAINING

On Monday 19^th and Tuesday 20^th APRIL the school will be closed for pupils due to staff INSET training.

ATTENDANCE AND SICKNESS / EMERGENCYI NFORMATION

We are under Camden's directive to ensure that every absence that occurs is monitored and the reason for absence is recorded. Parents/Carers cannot come into school and remove children from class without prior notice or by providing evidence or reason e.g. appointment card.

When we call an ambulance for a pupil, we are following medical guidelines.

When your child is sick or had an accident, it is ours and every school in Camden's expectation that you respond promptly by coming to collect them or to meet them at the hospital.

Can we remind you that by contacting you the school office staff are only carrying out their duties and should never be subject to any verbal abuse. Many thanks for you support with this.

Kilburn Grange Project

We are delighted to be involved in the Kilburn Grange ‘Explore Adventure’ Project to redevelop the adventure playground. Artists will be visiting the school on Wednesday to work with pupils across the school to create plaques that will be mounted and displayed in the new playground. We are part of a local initiative to involve children in the local area to input into the design and development of the project

CONNECT Are you aged between 12-14? Are you a young carer for someone you live with or a close family member? The Roundhouse and Camden’s Out of School Learning Service is offering you the chance to take part in a series of exciting monthly workshops at the Roundhouse. Every month you will be able to try out something new-writing a song, making a radio show, producing your own TV show, acting in front of a camera and much more.

The project runs for one year, once a month, between 10am-3pm on a Saturday at the Roundhouse Studios in Chalk Farm.

Come along to the first session on February 20^th

The project will then run 13^th March, 24^th April, 15^th May, 14^th June, 10^th July and each month through January 2011. All the workshops are free and lunch will be provided.

If you are interested please contact school THIS WEEK and we will send you a registration form.

Camden Parent Partnership Service

Camden Parent Partnership Service offers an impartial, free and confidential service to families of children and young people who may have special educational needs (SEN) or are experiencing difficulty in school.

The service: provides information and support, enabling families to become partners with professionals; ensures that parents and carers’ views are heard and understood and inform and influence the development of local SEN policy and practice; recruits and trains volunteers to work directly with families; encourages schools, CSF staff and other agencies to develop positive relationships with parents and carers; and is increasingly in demand by parents and carers seeking help and support. For further information please contact Victor Baldock on 020 7974 6325 or email victor.baldock@camden.gov.uk

February Fun! Disability Advocacy Project is having an Open Day!

On Friday 26 February 2010 (9.30am – 12 noon), we invite you to come meet the team and find out more about our work with disabled children and young people. Don’t miss out!

At the event you will: Have an opportunity to learn more about our different areas of work and the exciting projects we have within the team. Opportunity to meet our staff. Information about creative approaches, methods and resources for involving disabled young people in participation.

Practical and cost effective guidance to improve practice. Opportunities to try out a range of methods and approaches. The event will be held near our office in Bethnal Green at Oxford House,

Derbyshire Street, London

E2 6HG. Register to reserve your place by contacting Tina on 020 7613 2886 and / or email Disability-Advocacy-Project@childrenssociety.org.uk, on or before Friday 19 February 2010.

JUVE JUMP.UP –

A Club Night for young people aged 14 – 25 with a learning difficultly.

Live DJ’s, Video Pod, Radio Broadcasting, Painting with sound and refreshments.

Friday 19^th February £2 on the door 6pm till 10pm.

Paddington Arts,

32 Woodfiled Road, London W9 2BE

– 020 8286 2722

www.paddingtonarts.org.uk or gemma@paddingtonarts.org.uk

RECIPE BOOK – School Fundraising Project

Please send in any recipes you have that we can put into a school recipe book.

SEAL : THE THEME FOR THIS HALF TERM IS: ‘FRIENDSHIPS’

What do I enjoying doing with my friends?

MAKATON SIGNS OF THE WEEK – SPRING 2010

SHOPPING WALKING

If you would like to know more about Makaton signs or would like additional copies please contact your child’s class teacher.

SYMBOLS OF THE WEEK – SPRING 2010

SHOPPING WALKING

If you would like to know more about Symbols or would like additional copies please contact your child’s class teacher.

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Gathering Parent and Carer Views.

In order to support our school improvement we would appreciate it if you could take a little time to respond to the questions below.

Please tick under the heading(s) you most agree with and return to Lucia or Julie at school

Adopting a healthy lifestyle.

Disagree

Agree

Don’t Know

The school encourages my child to follow a healthy diet.

The school provides wide opportunities for my child to have regular physical exercise.

The school supports my child in their personal, social and health education

Newsletter 1st February 2010

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Jack Taylor School

NEWSLETTER

Week Beginning: Monday 1^st February

Blog http://jacktaylorschool.blogspot.com/

STAR OF THE WEEK AWARDS

PURPLE CLASS: Salman Egal for excellent sensory work

YELLOW CLASS: Lascelle Farell for rolling independently

BLUE CLASS: Rubel Shah for good communication responding using yes and no

RED CLASS: Joy Khan and Catalina Banol for independent walking around the British Museum

SECONDARY 1: Mizan Rahman for good attendance at school

SECONDARY 2: Shaidul Haque for his good dancing during Step into dance

SECONDARY3 Nazia Begum for indicating a like and dislike

POST 16: Omar Mattar for for good counting in numeracy

SEAL : THE THEME FOR THIS HALF TERM IS: ‘FRIENDSHIPS’

Who are my friends?

Parental Views – new section of the newsletter

Unfortunately we had a limited response last week to our questions about how safe parents and carers feel their child is in school.

Your views are really important to us. Please take the time to fill in the parental views section of the newsletter and return to school as this helps us to make informed decisions about school improvement and working in partnerships with families.

Finger Nails

We have had some incidents of pupils being scratched by others. We would appreciate your support with ensuring that your child’s finger nails are cut short regularly.

Parent Support Group Meeting – Wednesday 3^rd February 2010

The next meeting will focus on “Support Services for Siblings”. There will be 2 guest

speakers; Suzy Mullay (manager of the Disabled Children’s Team at Mosaic) and

Shelly Sheiff (family Information Service). The meeting will be at school.

9.30 – 11.30am – ALL WELCOME

Classroom Observations

In order to monitor teaching and learning we are carrying out classroom observations this week. Each class will be observed delivering a lesson and the senior leadership team will feedback and report on good practice. These observations form an important part of our school improvement cycle.

WAC

Some pupils attend WAC after school club and holiday club. Some of the students from WAC have put together a website. Please take a look @

www.wacwonderweb.co.uk

Providers meeting at Jack Taylor School

Last week saw all the youth service providers meeting at school to discuss the extended services and support that we offer to our pupils. We hope that as a result we will be able to offer more opportunities to pupils to access after school and holiday provision.

Camden Information Day

An event for parents and carers of children and young people with disabilities or special needs

March 16^th 2010 10.00am – 16.00pm

Inter-Change Studios Hampstead Town Hall Centre 213 Haverstock Hill NW3 4QP

A flyer will be available at the parent meeting on Wednesday and sent home shortly.

British Museum Project

As part of the engaging places project Red Class are working in partnership with the British Museum to encourage pupils with sensory difficulties to explore sounds, sights, textures and smells at the British Museum. This project is running this half term.

TAXI DRIVERS TEA PARTY Sunday 31^st January 2010

We would like to extend a big thank you to all parents, carers and families who came to the taxi driver’s tea party on Sunday. A fabulous time was had by all!

££££££££ RECIPE BOOK – School Fundraising Project £££££££££

We are going to put together the Jack Taylor School Recipe Book which we hope to sell in order to fundraise for the school. We want the recipe book to reflect the cultural diversity of our school. We would like every parent, carer, professional or friend to contribute their favourite recipes that they would like to share. If you have a recipe that you would like to share please send it into school either copied out or marked in a book which we can photocopy and return to you.

Many Thanks

MAKATON SIGNS OF THE WEEK – SPRING 2010

CINEMA SWIMMING

If you would like to know more about Makaton signs or would like additional copies please contact your child’s class teacher.

SYMBOLS OF THE WEEK – SPRING 2010

CINEMA SWIMMING

If you would like to know more about Symbols or would like additional copies please contact your child’s class teacher.

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Gathering Parent and Carer Views.

In order to support our school improvement we would appreciate it if you could take a little time to respond to the questions below.

Please tick under the heading(s) you most agree with and return to Lucia at school

Disagree

Agree

Don’t Know

High standards of good behaviour is encouraged at the school

There is support available for parents and carers to find out more about behaviour strategies

My child is recognised and praised for good behaviour

Newsletter 25th January 2010

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Jack Taylor School

NEWSLETTER

Week Beginning: Monday 25^th January

Blog http://jacktaylorschool.blogspot.com/

STAR OF THE WEEK AWARDS

PURPLE CLASS: Salaban Mohammed for settling in to school so well

YELLOW CLASS: Sameha Begum for rolling over independently

BLUE CLASS: Rubel Shah for good communication responding using yes and no

RED CLASS: Ismail Mohammed for settling in to school so well

SECONDARY 1: Thomas Mulugate for good work in class all week

SECONDARY 2: Sabia Begum for independent exploration of objects

SECONDARY3 & P16: Hadi Dbouk, Joshua Brown, Sean Martin and Palwasha Akbari for their brilliant efforts and achievements at the Special Schools Panathalon event last week

POST 16: Ebun Bickersteth for great swimming and Liat Zambrano for settling in to school

SEAL : THE THEME FOR THIS HALF TERM IS: ‘FRIENDSHIPS’

What activities does your child enjoy with friends?

Parental Views – new section of the newsletter

As we seek to further improve our service we will be gathering parent and carer views each week in our newsletter. We would like your opinions about relevant topics that affect you and your child. There will be a section for you to put your responses, tear off and return to school. You could otherwise email lucia@jacktaylor.camden.sch.uk or telephone with your responses.

Please take a moment to answer the questions at the end of the newsletter as your views are important to us and influence decisions we make in school.

School Based Training Programmes for Parents / Carers

Thank you to parents who have responded positively to the proposed parent training sessions. We are in the process of putting together some dates and will be in touch shortly.

Parent Support Group Meeting – Wednesday 3^rd February 2010

The next meeting will focus on “Support Services for Siblings”. There will be 2 guest

speakers; Suzy Mullay (manager of the Disabled Children’s Team at Mosaic) and

Shelly Sheiff (family Information Service). The meeting will be at school.

9.30 – 11.30am – ALL WELCOME

A BRILLIANT achievement at the Pantathalon

Well done to all the pupils who attended the Special schools Panathalon event. Every pupil won a medal and they are now heading off to the REGIONAL event in February!!

Special Yoga Centre

The Special Yoga Centre based in Kensal Rise will be coming into school to run a Yoga project in Primary and Secondary. They will be working alongside us to help deliver a tailored Yoga programme and support us in developing this so it can be run successfully in the future.

Jack Taylor School New Appointment - Secondary Curriculum Leader.

We are delighted to inform you that we have appointed to the position of Secondary Curriculum Leader. Chris Bird will be starting after Easter taking over from Miranda who is currently running the department. Chris will be head of KS3, KS4 and P16. Chris is a very experienced teacher of SEN and currently teaches at Whitefield’s school, Walthamstow.

KEEN - Kids Enjoy Exercise Now!

KEEN is a charity for children with special needs and their siblings. KEEN London is a registered charity that runs free weekly sports and recreation sessions for children and young adults with special needs. Children from the age of 5 upwards are paired with volunteer coaches during the sessions for individual support.

Website: www.keenlondon.org/what.html

Email: info@keenlondon.org Post: KEEN London 12 City Forum, 250

City Road, LONDON, EC1V 8AF

Telephone: 020 7250 0012

Parent Council Meeting

The next meeting will be on ‘HEALTH’. There will be workshops on mental health, diet and nutrition, sex education and disability awareness.

Please see attached flyer for details

TAXI DRIVERS TEA PARTY Sunday 31^st January 2010

On Sunday a group of families will be heading down to Grosvenor House Hotel on

Park Lane

for the annual London Taxi Drivers Tea Party. For any of you who have not responded to the letter sent last week please do so as soon as possible so we can arrange transport.

School Uniforms

Many parents and carers have requested order information for the school polo shirts and fleeces.

Julie has just received the pricing details and is putting them into a school order form which we will be sending out to parents and carers this week.

Receiving the Newsletter

Just to remind you that you can access all the school newsletters at http://jacktaylorschool.blogspot.com/ or you can email us at school at admin@jacktaylor.camden.sch.uk and we can add you to the weekly email mailing list.

MAKATON SIGNS OF THE WEEK – SPRING 2010

GREEN ORANGE BLACK

If you would like to know more about Makaton signs or would like additional copies please contact your child’s class teacher.

SYMBOLS OF THE WEEK – SPRING 2010

GREEN ORANGE BLACK

If you would like to know more about Symbols or would like additional copies please contact your child’s class teacher.

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Gathering Parent and Carer Views.

In order to support our school improvement we would appreciate it if you could take a little time to respond to the questions below.

Please tick under the heading(s) you most agree with and return to Lucia at school

Disagree

Agree

Don’t Know

The school keeps my child safe at all times

The school listens to issues that I raise with them

The school acts upon issues that I have raised with them

Many thanks. Your continued support is appreciated.