Newsletter 25th January 2010

 

 

 

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.

 

New Chair of Governors

Jack Taylor School is looking for a new Chair of Governors!

 

Jack Taylor is an all-age community special school in Camden which is going through an exciting transition from its current site to a brand new school as part of Building Schools for the Future. We are looking for an experienced Chair of Governors to lead a committed and keen governing body through the next four years to ensure that the newly merged school can get off to the best start possible.

 

In particular we are looking for someone with the following experience:

• Experience of working on a school governing body at Chair or Vice-Chair level, preferably in a special school
  
  
• Experience of capital building projects, and ideally Building Schools for the Future
  
  
• Experience of the Ofsted inspection process
  
  
• Understanding of key school policies
  
  
  
  

Please send a short covering letter and CV to Samantha O’Brien at

SamO@jacktaylor.camden.sch.uk or by post to:

Jack Taylor School
Chair of Governors Recruitment
Ainsworth Way
Off Boundary Road
London
NW8 0SR

 Closing date: Midday 29^th January 2010.

 More information about the school can be found at our website: www.jacktaylor.camden.sch.uk -

If you would like an informal conversation with the outgoing Chair, Jessica Asato, please contact her at Jessica@jessicaasato.co.uk or call on 07939 594 634.

Jack Taylor Newsleter Monday 18th January 2010

Jack Taylor School

NEWSLETTER

Week Beginning: Monday 18^th January

Blog http://jacktaylorschool.blogspot.com/

STAR OF THE WEEK AWARDS

                                        

PURPLE CLASS: Christina Ajjmotokin for tolerating massage

YELLOW CLASS: Malaki Gale for tolerating being moved in a frame

BLUE CLASS: Keith Phil Omoqui for good communication

RED CLASS: Ezaz Chowduury for independent working

SECONDARY 1: Aaron Ford for progress with independent work during class time

SECONDARY 2: Jubeda Begum for excellent standing in her frame

SECONDARY3: Khalid Yussef for activating a fan with a switch

POST 16: Siham Nurr for coming to school dressed smartly and well presented

Special Mention goes to Hilda Mbetola for swimming 3 lengths of the pool independently

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

How do friends make us feel?

ASD Special Interest Group – Monday 18th

We are delighted to be hosting the Autism Interest group for staff and professionals that work in Camden with pupils who have Autism. This is about sharing ideas and strategies and developing a network and cohesive working within the borough.

As we are the only Camden school accredited by the National Autistic Society we are using the session to share our resources and expertise with others. 

School Based Training Programmes for Parents / Carers

We will be running some training for parents, carers and families of children who have a diagnosis of autism. The training will be personalised to suit individual needs and tailored to your requirements. Sabia from our office will be contacting you this week by telephone to gather your views.

Team Teach Training

A one day refresher course for team teach will be running in school this week. This

Is the positive handling training programme that we run in school.

Pantathalon

A group of secondary pupils will be taking part in the Pantathalon this week. This is a sports day for a group of participating special schools. This will be a whole day event and take place at Talacre in Kentish Town.

££££££££   SNACK MONEY  ££££££££

Please could you provide your child with money for snack time. Class teachers will let you know how much money to send in.

We run morning break times as part of our teaching and learning in PHSCE. Pupils are expected to plan, shop and prepare their snacks as part of their independent living skills development. We rely on parents and carers sending in money to support their child taking part in this. Many thanks for your support.

MAKATON SIGNS OF THE WEEK – SPRING 2010

 RED  BLUE       YELLOW

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

      

                                         RED

           BLUE                                 YELLOW      

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

School Closing 1.00 PM - update at 11.30 AM - Wednesday 13th January 2010

Due to the adverse weather conditions, transport have advised us that it would be sensible for pupils to start their return journey early this afternoon.

We also have a problem in that we have no lunchtime supervisors available at all, and some teachers are absent, due to the difficulties with public transport.

Accordingly the school is closing at 1.00 PM - transport will ensure that children they brought to school will be taken home.

We will update this site regarding tomorrow, as and when we have any further information - however the forecasts at the moment are for the mildest weather for some time, and we do anticipate being open as usual