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SENDIASS are running the following training courses:
Please click the link for more information and how to register: SENDIASS training sessions
Please see our school newsletter for Friday 8th January:
Kooth is an online counselling service for young people aged 11-24 years, they are operating a virtual support service during this lockdown.
https://www.kooth.com/
Here is a list of forums you and your child may be interested in attending if they are 11-24 years:
Click on the link below for additional information
Live Forum Topics for January 2021
Early Bird, Early Bird Plus and Teen Life offer parent support programmes to families who have a child with a diagnosis of Autism. Dates available and additional information can be found via the link below.
Please find attached flyers to this upcoming event from South Tyneside Council. This event will provide information to families who are new to SEND and help them understand the processes at different stages. The event for Early years will be held on 19th Jan and for Primary and Secondary school age on 20th Jan.
This half term Maples class have been working very hard on their writing skills. They read lots of stories, created story maps to help them retell the story then changed parts such as characters, settings and events to create their own fantastic version. They tried very hard to use the sounds that they know to help them with their writing, made sure every sentence had a capital letter and full stop and tried to use some exciting adjectives in their writing. Fabulous job Maples!
We have had a busy but fantastic half term in Orange Group. Our topic this term has been ‘Join the Celebration’ as we have learned and celebrated Halloween, Bonfire Night where we learned how to build fires and stay safe, Remembrance Sunday, Diwali and finally lots of Christmas activities, where we have decorated the Christmas tree, filmed our nativity performance, made Christmas cards, calendars and baubles.
Chestnuts have been using their Science knowledge in D.T. to design and make light-up Christmas cards. We came up with a design criteria for our Christmas cards (including having a Christmas theme, writing Merry Christmas and including the colour red) and discussed how we could make the card light up. We used copper tape for the wire in our circuits and followed a template. The folding was tricky!! We then attached a battery for our power source and an led bulb for the light. All of the children knew that the light would only work if there was a complete circuit with no breaks. The cards were beautiful and they all lit up! Well done Chestnuts!
This half term Cherries topic has been Let’s Celebrate!
We have learned about bonfire night and read the story Sparks Fly in Literacy. We made our own firework pictures on the computer and with paint by dipping and twist toilet roll holders.
Our next celebration was Remembrance day, we completed poppy jigsaws, painted cake cases to make poppies and used red icing and chocolate buttons to make poppy biscuits.
We then learned about Diwali and read the story Dipal’s Diwali. We sequenced the story and used colourful semantics to make sentences about the story. We made Diva Lamps and explored lights and scents in Science.
We then celebrated Christmas and read the story Ten Little Lights. We were excellent as identifying the animals either verbally or using symbols. We also had great fun helping to decorate our class Christmas tree!
A very busy half term.
