Newsletter 30th March - Happy Easter

Jack Taylor School

NEWSLETTER

Week Beginning: Monday 30th March

Wishing you all a very Happy Easter Holiday from us all.

REMINDER

END OF TERM: FRIDAY 3^RD APRIL @ 1PM

BACK TO SCHOOL: MONDAY 20^TH APRIL

Sensory Garden Mural.

We are pleased to see the arrival and installation of the tactile mural in the sensory garden. Thank you to Lifeline4kids charity who kindly donated it.

AUTISM ACCREDITATION.

The school and in particular, the staff in the autism resource base are working hard to gain accredited status from the National Autistic Society for their excellence in autism practice.

There has been lots of hard work over the last year to fulfil the criteria that will achieve the award of accredited status.

As a result our provision for autism and the specialist teaching that the children receive has developed and continues to improve towards excellence.

On Tuesday we have our first formal visit by our area advisor who is coming in to observe lessons and give the teams some feedback.

Our main review date by the NAS is set for July 6^th and will be a full week of inspection.

A big thank you to Irena and Emma and the staff in the resource base for their continual hard work towards this.

REMINDER!

AUTISM PARENT TRAINING ON HEALTH RELATED ISSUES. TUESDAY 21^ST APRIL @ 10AM AT SCHOOL - ALL WELCOME

AWARDS

Well done to pupils who received STAR of the week for their efforts in class.

Yellow Class: Lascelle Farell for independent choosing

Blue Class: Rubel Shah for his excellent cooking skills

Red Class: Ikhkas Mohammed for imitating adults’ actions

Purple Class: Adnan Adam for keeping his head up and his progress in physio

Senior 1:. Hilda Mbetolo for independent work

Senior 2: Khali Youssef for being alert and good physio

Senior 3: Joshua Brown for excellent behaviour

Post 16: Whole class for their Step into Dance performance.

Step into Dance.

Thank you to all the senior students and staff who took part in the Step into Dance performance last week.

Well Done

It was a fabulous show.

Wednesday 1^st April @ 2pm. We are looking forward to a whole school FLAMENCO performance which should be a colourful music and dance spectacular!

Purple Class News

Purple class have been looking at the customs relating to Easter and Spring – especially new life, chickens, eggs and rabbits. Students have been making special Easter eggs and baskets, using all their painting and craft skills.

We’ve also been practising signing the words to My School. The students have been learning their colours and recognising the colours of everyday objects. Counting games and counting songs are also very popular.

Purple Class wishes everyone a happy and safe Easter Holidays and look forward to meeting up again in the new term.

Ron, Sharon and Linda

MEDICAL REMINDERS

Medicals are happening in school this Friday, 3^rd April and on the first day back on Monday 20^th April.

Please remember to arrive on time as the schedules are tight!

Thank you.

Thank you to senior 3 Class for their help with the signing assembly.

Communication Partners.

Our speech and language therapist is working to support our communication with pupils through weekly tips that we want to share with you.

TOUCH CUES

A TOUCH CUE is a touch, made in a

consistent manner, directly onto the child’s

body to communicate a message alongside

speech.

We are trialling a set of TOUCH CUES

at school. These are suitable for children

with physical and sensory impairments.

EAT (Oral)

Tap hand on cheek x 2

Signs of the week.

SCHOOL

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