Jack Taylor News: Newsletter – 19th October 2009

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Week Beginning: Monday 19th October

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AWARDS

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

Purple Class: Lucas Sabatino for settling in to purple class so well in his 1^st week.

Yellow Class: Faiza Islam using her switch so well in speech and language group

Blue Class: Thambir Bahar for saying and signing more and Godwin Lukembesa for excellent independent work

Red Class: Ikhlas Mohammed for excellent standing and walking using her frame

Secondary 1: Thomas Mulugate for good listening skills

Secondary 2: Darrel Morris for good work in maths

Secondary 3: Hassan Araghi for walking independently to Kilburn

Post 16: Paul Ferdinand for participating in all sessions

PMLD Base: Khalid Yusuf for excellent response to physiotherapy

Dates:

Thursday 22^nd October – INSET Training (School Closed)

Friday 23^rd October – INSET Training (School Closed)

Monday 26^th October – Friday 30^th October - Half Term

Monday 2^nd November – Back to School

ART PROJECT for JTS MURAL.

Francis Holland School with whom Jack Taylor has close links have approached us with an idea of designing and making a mural for our school. The design will be based upon our sensory week and be developed in the style of the artist Mondrian. Our job at school is to collect some of the raw materials including china, pebbles, Buttons, Beads and tiles in ALL shades of RED, ORANGE, YELLOW< GREEN and BLUE. If you have any of these items at home that you could donate please send them to school. Many Thanks.

WEAR IT PINK DAY @ school- Wednesday 21^st October

This October people all over the country will be wearing it pink to support The Breast Cancer Campaign.

Jack Taylor School staff, pupils and parents/carers support this charity every year. We will be holding our pink day at school on Wednesday (21^st). All staff and pupils wear PINK clothing to school and donate money to our collection. Every class will be having a PINK activity and these will all be celebrated in the end of day ASSEMBLY

Please give generously

Parent Group – Wednesday 21^st October – 9.30am–11.30am

We have invited the school’s Educational Psychologists Liza Manoochehri and Chris O’Nions to come to the parent and carer group. Additionally, Victor Baldock the Parent Partnership Coordinator and Vikki Lee (senior EP) with a role in Social Communication assessment Service (SCAS) will also be attending the group to speak and answer any questions. Vikki will be particularly helpful to talk to about issues with autism. Refreshments will be available.

SEAL : THE THEME FOR THIS WEEK IS: ‘What makes me sad?’

Suggestion: When at home, try responding positively to different emotions that your child may demonstrate. Respond to these emotions by name or through pictures and help them to recognise their feelings.

Monday 19th and Tuesday 20^th October 3.30 -4.30pm Staff Training in CASPA; the school data collection IT package. Staff will be learning how to use this interactive package which records ad tracks pupils progress and informs target setting at class, area and whole school level. This is a valuable way of measuring pupil progress and attainment within school and feeds into the data collection at both Local Authority and National Levels.