Sherwood Park Newsletter
06.05.22
Weekly Update
Dear parents and carers,
We have a great week on both campuses which included having the children's School photo's taken.
With the warmer weather predicted for next week I am sure many of the students will look forward to some community access in the sunshine. With that in mind please can we ensure sun hats, cream etc are sent in as required.
If anyone has any older iPhones they are no longer using and would like to donate them to the School they will be gratefully received. We would like some more devices at school to support capturing evidence and to support regulation.
As ever there is much to celebrate from our classes so please do read the class celebrations section.
I hope you have a lovely weekend.
Simon
Class Celebrations
Hill Campus
This week in Mint we have had lots learning going on. Children are more settled and they have been joining in group classes based lessons. We all are enjoying Attention Autism sessions, where we sit in a circle to see cause and effect toys coming out of the bucket. Sometimes we get too excited that can't stay sitting on our chairs!!!!. We have also enjoyed our first weekly park trip. Some students are starting to walk to Stanley Park where we will be working on travel training in the community.
Mint has nominated Yusuf our start of the week for his amazing readiness to learn. He has been able to work on up to 4 table top activities and to accept more adult support when getting upset.
Teal class is having fabulous time exploring our topic, our focus for the past two weeks and next week has been on learning about ocean animals. Students love the story Commotion in the Ocean, participating in role play and looking at different ocean animals. Our stars of the week are Zara and Luke. Zara has been working very hard on her maths skills and adding up objects to five and Luke has been initiating communication by pointing on the symbol on his Coreboard. Well done Zara and Luke!
We hope you are all going to have a lovely weekend.
This week in Lime class we have been enjoying our Splish Splash Splosh theme and have been reading ‘The Big Red Bath’ where pupils sat for longer periods of time and enjoyed engaging with the water play. We all went to into the community this week for our trip to the park and everyone is doing really well with our walk there and back where we have been thinking about ‘stop’ and ‘go’ when crossing the roads. Our celebration star goes to Kishan this week for trying and exploring some new foods and textures. Well done everyone and have a lovely and sunny weekend!
Capri class have been reading 'Elmer the Elephant' they all made elephant lanterns from plastic milk bottles then we used tissue to papier mache them to look like a patch work elephant. Then we put battery powered lights and WOW colourful elephants.
Isah was singing 'quiet, quiet, quiet' then 'loud, loud, loud' to himself which was really cute to listen to. He loves to sing and loves to listen to music.
James and Jayden completed with some support from adult making a giant floor puzzle.
Shaun and joe played football with the football coach on Tuesday this week.
The music lesson with David was outstanding Isah, Jayden, Shaun, James and Liam played instruments like the piano (Isah was brilliant), Drums (Shaun is a natural), James and Liam enjoy the xylophone and tambourine, Jayden played the piano and the guitar and Isah played the guitar with his foot.
Olive class have had a good week and have enjoyed many sensory activities to do with our topic of "What's down there?" focusing on under the sea. We have made some lovely biscuits and have enjoyed working on our pre-writing skills by working with foam, cornflour, flour, paint and rice. Our star of the week this week is Samantha for her fantastic sharing skills, good listening and some lovely interactions, well done Samantha.
Tobey was elected in March as the student representative for Sapphire class well done Tobey. His peers were very much proud of him.
Thistle Class this week have had a really great time accessing some of their community learning programmes and engaging with the class enterprise. Our new Summer Term business is 'Sizzle Thistle', where we cook BBQ food on Fridays to sell to the staff, this includes beef burgers, chicken kebabs, halloumi cheese and salad. The students enjoyed their assembly on deaf awareness week, engaging in a signing quiz. Have a lovely weekend everyone and enjoy the weather!
This week in Thistle class we enjoyed going to the local Lidi to buy shopping for our enterprise of making burgers and chicken kababs
the students enjoyed making milkshakes.
This week in violet class we have enjoyed making our favourite warps in cooking.
We have also been looking at money in maths as well as looking at what makes us different. we have created some wonderful pictures of ourselves.
This weeks star of the week is Declan for his wonderful participation in class and for trying new things at school. Declan has loved Julie's lessons on healthy living! Declan recently tried riding the trike at school day and really enjoyed it which is amazing to see. Well done Declan and the rest of Iris class. Happy weekend!
Additional special well done to Tony from Indigo for joining in on our Friday afternoon DIR sessions. This week Tony decorated biscuits in Iris class!
Park Campus
Star of the week this week goes to Tate! He has been working very hard on his money skills and reading this week. He made a shopping list for the shopping group and he transitioned well to 80% of activities too! Super star Tate!
This week, Hebe class's star of the week is Alan for amazing eye contact during circle sessions and for brilliant walking to the park and back. Well done, Alan
Bluebell's star of the week is Ronnie. He has been a superstar helping to get the lunches and taking initiative to clean the tables. He has been kind to his friends, talking to them and including them in games. He has also been thoughtful to his teachers and picked each of them flowers in the park. He's worked hard during his lessons, making a beautiful rainbow picture in art and making some delicious smoothies as well. Well done, Ronnie!
Sunflower class entered some of their artwork into this year’s exhibition of Art in Sutton Schools, which has been showing at Sutton Central Library over the last month. Our very own Leland has only gone and won a prize for Best Artwork in the Special Schools category! We are all immensely proud of him. And here it is, his picture executed in coloured sherbet and yoghurt entitled ‘Sweet Spot’.
The star of the week in Poppy Class is Louis, he has returned to swimming after a long break and was so great at getting back into the routine,remained regulated and really enjoy his time in the pool. He has had a brilliant week all round and has been laughing and really engaged with his learning. Well done Louis!
Orchid Class ‘Star of the Week’ goes to Sebastian for independently putting his photo on the board at Circle Time and then returning to his chair with no prompts from an adult.
Lily Class star of the week is Leo for initiating play with his peers all week, taking turns on the piano and playing in the swimming pool.
Bamboo's star of the week is Hannah for initiating the use of her PODD and very accurate finger pointing to do so.
Daisy class have had a good week. We have enjoyed spending time in the discovery forest, especially looking out for interesting flowers, leaves and twigs. We also loved exploring the contents of the hobby house and experiencing plant pots and trowels.
Daisy class star of the week is Sushmi. Sushmi has worked hard on his physical skills, especially his physio program and tolerating his standing frame.
Tulip class have only had a couple of pupils in this week but it hasn't stopped us from learning lots and enjoying our time in school. If you get a chance come and pop into our class as the rainforest display is really coming along. This week the pupils made some snakes and iguanas to add to our rainforest canopy. Our star of the week is Jayden for his wonderful work in physiotherapy where he was demonstrating his sitting balance and also showing persistence to push up using his arms when in a prone position. Well done Jayden!
Therapy stars
Park Campus
Therapy would like to nominate Sebastian for our star of the week - Sebastian has shown great improvements with his independent sitting and sitting balance. He no longer requires additional postural support for seating in school!
Hill Campus
Max has been working on his typing skills and was able to independently type words to communicate his interests.
Support For Ukranian Families
Ukraine: Barnardo’s free helpline
Barnardo’s has set up a Ukrainian Support Helpline for anyone fleeing the conflict in Ukraine. The free helpline (0800 148 8586) is staffed by English, Ukrainian and Russian speakers, to offer support to children and families arriving in the UK from Ukraine. The helpline is open Monday – Friday from 10.00am – 8.00pm and Saturday from 10.00am – 3.00pm). A dedicated email address ukrainiansupport@barnardos.org.uk and webpage have also been set up for those assisting with the Ukraine response.