Newsletter 15th March 2010

 

 

 

 

Jack Taylor School

NEWSLETTER

Week Beginning: Monday 15^th March 2010

Blog http://jacktaylorschool.blogspot.com/

 

STAR OF THE WEEK AWARDS

                                        

 

 

PURPLE CLASS: Corey for working well and communicating with a switch

YELLOW CLASS: Yared for good vocalisation and switch work

BLUE CLASS: Godwin for excellent cooking with the visiting chefs

RED CLASS: Ismail for good switch work

SECONDARY 1: Smith for being a supportive friend and role model to others

SECONDARY 2: Jubeda for lovely interacting with others at the Francis Holland Disco

POST 16: Paul for good independent drumming

 

 

SCHOOL TRANSPORT

If you are experiencing or have any difficulties or enquiries about transport please phone them direct. As always, we are happy to give advice or support to you but the transportation of your child to and from school do not come under our responsibility.

Contact details are as follows:

0207 7974 6736 for the main switchboard, alternatively phone Angela Taffe direct on 02079746728.

 

 

            MARIE CURIE DAFFODIL APPEAL

We are currently selling the Marie Curie Daffodils in school which supports the fundraising to help provide dedicated care at Marie Curie hospices for those suffering with cancer. Please send in £1 to purchase your daffodil and support this worthy cause. Daffodils will be on sale all week at school.

 

 FRANCIS HOLLAND DISCO           

We would like to give a big thank you to the students at Francis Holland School who hosted a Disco for all the secondary students last Thursday. They all had a wonderful time.

 

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

Who are my Friends?

 

GOODBYE TO JODY THE SCHOOL NURSE

We would like to say goodbye and thank you to Jody Levy our school nurse who is leaving us from 26^th March to work at Beatrice Tate School. We wish her well in her new post and appreciate all her hard work in supporting the pupils and parents of the school.

Parents / Carer consent forms.

Please return the photography consent forms to school as soon as possible.

 

DOWN SYNDROME DAY 21^st MARCH 2010

We will be celebrating in school on MONDAY 22^nd MARCH. To signify the day and raise awareness we will be asking everyone to wear something green to school. 

For more details go online at www.worlddownsyndromeday.org

 

 

 

MAKATON SIGNS OF THE WEEK – SPRING 2010

GO      COME STOP

 

 

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    

                      

  COME  STOP    GO

 

 

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 or Julie at school

 

SPIRITUAL, MORAL, SOCIAL & CULTURAL DEVELOPEMENT	Disagree	Agree	Don’t Know
The school promotes spiritual and cultural development recognising and celebrating pupils’ cultural diversity.
The school promotes moral development through guiding pupils to understand right from wrong.
The school promotes social development by celebrating different communities and how they live.
The school promotes and celebrates the richness and diversity of the school community.
Families and friends are encouraged to share their cultural experiences with the school and its community.

 

8th March 2010

 

 

 

 

Jack Taylor School

NEWSLETTER

Week Beginning: Monday 8^th March 2010

Blog http://jacktaylorschool.blogspot.com/

 

STAR OF THE WEEK AWARDS

                                        

 

 

PURPLE CLASS: Christina for floating using a noodle during swimming

YELLOW CLASS: Uma for initiating communication with a friend

BLUE CLASS: Ruweyda for excellent counting in maths

RED CLASS: Joy and Ezaz for their excellent swimming and Christian for demonstrating initiative and independently going to the hall for lunch

SECONDARY 1: Donjeta for her good PECS work

SECONDARY 2: Sabia for floating on her back at swimming

POST 16: Omar for great effort with his work experience and Catherine with the gardening project.

 

 

Home School Communication

We are always trying to look at easier ways of communicating with parents/carers about how we work with their sons/daughters and the progress they make in school.

At the moment all pupils have home school diaries and we have regular progress meetings throughout the year in school.

We now have the opportunity to extend our technology to support this very important area. We are trying out, with a small number of pupils, using recordable books and video cameras to further develop our relationship with families.

This will involve a very simple small video camera which will fit into a computer or television to play back. School can record a pupil working and parents/carers can do the same at home. We also have books which can have pictures put in and a recordable button for comment.

If the trial is successful we believe this form of technology could be used by most parents/carers and teachers to start a computerised record of pupils progress which would be personal to each family. We would also run training in school.

I will keep you informed.   

Julie Ashmore – Deputy Head

 

            AFTER SCHOOL CLUB

We are currently working in partnership with the disability youth service to bring the ‘Choices’ club to JTS. After the Easter break, we hope to run the club from the school and to increase the numbers of places available.  We will be contacting parents and carers whose child is 11 years or older shortly to offer places. Letters of consent will be sent to parents and carers interested in taking up the places.

 

 RECIPE BOOK – School Fundraising Project           

Please send in any recipes you have that we can put into a school recipe book.

 

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

How do I  look help my friends?

 

Yoga Training

Jo from the special needs Yoga centre in Kensal Rise will be coming into school to deliver training for staff over the next 2 weeks. This will support the Yoga sessions taking place in both departments each week.

 

Work Experience

Well done to the post 16 students who have started well with their work experience and independent travel training. The students are working at Mail Out in Kentish Town for the rest of the academic year. Good luck!

 

 

MAKATON SIGNS OF THE WEEK – SPRING 2010

  FORGET      REMEMBER  

 

 

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    

                      

   FORGET    REMEMBER  

 

 

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 or Julie at school

 

PUPIL’S FUTURE DEVELOPMENT	Disagree	Agree	Don’t Know
The school encourages full involvement of parents and carers at times of key decision making such as IEP, annual reviews and Person centred planning.
The school values parental views in planning for each pupil’s future learning.
The school prepares my child well for their future education.
The school offers its pupils opportunities for work related activities and learning.