Jack Taylor News: Newsletter- 16th November 2009

Jack Taylor School

NEWSLETTER

Week Beginning: Monday 16th November

Blog http://jacktaylorschool.blogspot.com/

AWARDS

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

Purple Class: Salman Egal for good swimming, Physio and standing in the pool

Yellow Class: Faiza Islam for excellent efforts using her walking frame

Blue Class: Ruweyda Mohammed for good swimming and communication work

Red Class: Iklhas Mohammed for good effort in class

Secondary 1: Aaron Ford for good independence – getting out of the ball pool independently

Secondary 2: Sabia Begum for good work with communication switches

Secondary 3: Hadi Dbouk for excellent behaviour and Joshua Brown for good travel training and crossing the road safely

Dates for the Diary.

Wednesday 25^th November 2.15pm Live Music Now Marimba Players – ALL WELCOME

Wednesday 9^th December 11am – 12pm Step into Dance Performance – ALL WELCOME

Tuesday 15^th December – Christmas Show Dress Rehearsal

Wednesday 16^th December – Christmas Show – ALL WELCOME

Thursday 17^th December – School Christmas Lunch

Friday 18^th December – Father Christmas Presentation – END OF TERM

NEW END THEATRE PRODUCTION

A rehearsed reading of a new play about educating children with special needs

DEATH OF A NIGHTINGALE: Written by Alan Share. AND Directed by Ninon Jerome

With: Anna Doolan, Liz Elvin, Grace Kingsland, Fran Marston, James Pearse, Jos Vantyler,

Sunday 22 November 2009 at 7:30pm AND Monday 23 November 2009 at 7:30pm

What happens when your school is threatened with closure? It is a special school for children with varying disabilities. Alan Share writes a thought provoking play in passionate defence of such schools and questions the validity of the government policy for inclusion.

ALAN SHARE educated at Merton College, Oxford as a barrister, was active in the Liberal party with Jo Grimond before heading a successful retail company. For many years he has been the chair of a residential care home in Newcastle and for seventeen years has acted as the governor for a special school for children with a physical difficulty and an associated learning difficulty.

Tickets £5 Call the Box Office: 0870 033 2733 or www.newendtheatre.co.uk

New End Theatre, 27 New End, Hampstead, London NW3 1JD (5 minutes from Hampstead tube)

Hopscotch Presents Stepping Stone Triple P

Positive Parenting Programme For Bangladeshi Parents with a child who has a disability aged between 2-8 years

Venue: The programme can be delivered at Home or at Hopscotch, depending on the families’

needs.

Hopscotch Asian Women's Centre,

4 2 Phoenix Road London NW1 1TA

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If you are interested please contact the school or to Hopscotch directly; details below.

Lina Begum Family Assessment & Support Worker: Tel: 020 7388 6200

Lina.Begum@hopscotchawc.org.uk

Free crèche is available; please request this on the referral form.

Confidentiality: Anything discussed in the sessions will be kept confidential, unless there is disclosure of yourself or a child being at risk.

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

Support on dealing with Challenging Behaviours

Does your child present challenging behaviours? Do you need some practical advice?

Parents and carers at Jack Taylor School are invited to Question and Answer Sessions at the Bridge Special School,

251 Hungerford Road

, Off York Way, N7 9LD

Wednesday 9^th December 2009 @ 10.00am – 12.00pm

Wednesday 20^th January 2010 @ 10.00am – 12.00pm

Parent Governor.

We are still trying to recruit a Parent / carer to the Governing Body. If you are interested please contact the school. Funds are available to support childcare.

Next meeting is 16^th November.

NW3 HAMPSTEAD CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL FUNDRAISING FOR JACK TAYLOR

SCHOOL

We are proud to be the chosen charity by NW3 Hampstead – which is a group of traders, local businesses and the community.

All proceeds from the Hampstead Christmas Festival will go to Jack Taylor. The day will be full of exciting events and activities for children and families to enjoy finishing with the Christmas Lights being switched on. Activities start at 1pm and go on until 5pm.

Pupils, Staff, Parents, Carers, Governors and friends of JTS are all invited to come along and support this event. It would be lovely to see our school represented there by you.

We have been offered a stall in the main Marquee and would like volunteers to be there to help give out flyers and brochures to help raise the profile of the school.

Parking is free in Hampstead on Sunday and the area is pedestrianised with some road closures. We are sending a separate flyer home with information about the event.