Newsletter 11th May 2009

Jack Taylor School

NEWSLETTER

Week Beginning: Monday 11th May

Wednesday 13^th May @ 11.30am

Sensory Garden Opening

It’s the day we have been waiting for….. Harry Hill will be coming to school to officially open our sensory garden.

We hope to see plenty of parents and carers here amongst the guests invited. We are thrilled to have so many people support our project and be able to celebrate this event with us.

There will be a small song performed by some of the pupils and the speech and language therapist.

Refreshments provided.

AWARDS

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

Yellow Class:. Lascelle Farrel for excellent use of switches in music

Blue Class: Ikhram Shekh for naming all her friends in class

Red Class: Joy Khan for excellent swimming

Purple Class: Catalina Banol for good sensory work

Senior 1:. Thomas Mulugate for great behaviour following requests as asked

Senior 2: Sabia Begum for tolerating her new wheelchair

Senior 3: Nazia Begum for exploring the jelly baaf

Post 16: Charlie Daley for his effort in cooking

Well done to SMITH MBETOLO and JOSHUA BROWN who represented the school at the Camden Sports Festival last week. They did us proud and returned with certificates for everything they had participated in!

AUTISM PARENTS AND CARERS TRAINING

The next training session takes place on TUESDAY 19^th MAY at school at 10am in the Library.

The session will focus on SENSORY ISSUES and how these present difficulties for some of our autistic learners. This is an extremely useful sessions and will give you some ideas of activities you can do to support your child and meet their sensory needs.

PARENT AND CARER GROUP

The Parents and carers group will be taking place on WEDNESDAY 20^th MAY at 10am. Tanya Hymers will be joining the session to offer advice on the short breaks proposal.

Please come and join the group and find out about what is available for your child.

Communication Symbols

As part of communicating with students we use symbols to enable visual cues and support the spoken word. In particular the use of symbols is extensive when working with the pupils who have autism.

DRINK

FOOD

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

Signs of the week.

GARDEN

FLOWER