Headteachers Update 11th March 2022

Happy Friday! The school is very quiet today! The staff are receiving training on our new phonics scheme, which is completed by a new reading scheme. We will be rolling this out across the whole school with the vision to begin to send home home-readers that link to the phonics stage your child is learning. We aim to have this up and running for summer term.

10 members of staff have attended a ‘Flexi bounce’ training session, this new intervention will support our rebound therapy offer. As you can imagine, access to our trampoline in school is limited due to our pupil numbers and the shared gym with HMP. Therefore, we are reducing the pressures by training 10 staff to lead Flexi Bounce in ASC classes, which will allow for children with physical disabilities to access rebound more regularly. For children who may benefit from Flexi Bounce who are not currently supported in an ASC provision, we have 2 HLTAs also trained to offer this so don’t worry! If you would like more information about this, visit their website https://www.flexi-bouncetherapy.org/

If you would like to attend a parent workshop on Sensory Processing/Sensory differences, please click on the link to complete a google form https://forms.gle/P8yu7BSTe6fVAUmi8  (I will send this via parent hub also). The dates are 1pm-3pm on Tuesday 29th March & Tuesday 26th April. We can offer up to 3 places per family to support blended families, or support workers to attend. Louise from OT4Me is working in HMO every Tuesday. Visit her website for more details https://ot4me.co.uk/

Monday 21st March is World Down Syndrome day, staff will be wearing colourful socks to raise awareness. Join us if you’d like to! All you need to do is choose some socks that are going to get noticed – they might be mismatched socks or your craziest and most colourful socks, whatever takes your fancy! #lotsofsocks

I hope you’ve had a good Friday, hopefully enjoying an activity with your children!