Come along to our 'To The Future' Event

Would you like to know more about what services there are to support your child?

Would you like to know what is available for your child when they leave school?

If you answered yes to either of these questions then this event is for you.

On Thursday 9th October between 6pm and 8pm the "To The Future" event will be held at our Post-16 Centre next to Newbury College. This event aims to give you as much information as possible about what services are available in West Berkshire and the surrounding area to support young people with learning difficulties and disabilities.

There are always a good selection of local organisations who will be there to talk about what they offer.

Some examples of organisations who will be there are:

• Mencap 
• The Phoenix Centre
• The Yume Project
• Swings and Smiles
• Hillview Farm
• Lift Travel Training

It is an opportunity to chat face to face with these organisations and more to find out what is available.

We look forward to welcoming you to the event.

We also have another "To The Future" event held at the Love Lane site on the morning of Wednesday 17th June 2015

Snapshots of Learning - Part 2

Following on from the last post, here are some pictures showing all the wonderful learning that is taking place in Secondary and Post-16:

 Baking in Beaumaris Class

 

 Learning how to create and follow instructions in Colchester Class

 

 Students in Donnington Class working independently

 

 The wonderful world of Maths

 

 Donnington Students discussing current affairs

 

 Dover students studying Design and Technology

 

 Concentrating hard on the wood work

 

 Learning life-skills in the supermarket

 

 Making lunch for the class

 

 Lunch made - now time to eat!

 

 Lancaster Class in discussion

 

 Lindisfarne Class

 

 Enjoying learning

 

 Sharing and working together

 

 Playing together

 

 Learning skills for life

 

 Musical Fun

 

 Pendragon Class working as a team with the 'Bridge' Challenge

 

 Pendragon Class solving problems together

 

 Playing games at break times

 

 Studying hard in their Maths GCSE lesson

 

 Making Numicon cakes - Maths and baking in perfect harmony!

 

 The Numicon cakes are going to be delicious

 

The results of the students' labours - a Numicon set of tarts.

Snapshots of Learning - Part 1

I am always keen to share with you the wonderful things that our students get up to. We have only been back a week and a bit and already there is so much exciting learning to show you. This first post will look at pictures from Primary. The next blog will look at learning taking place in Secondary and Post-16. I hope you enjoy the students' amazing efforts:

 Reading together

 

 Working together

 

 Playing together

 

 Enjoying washing up!

 

 Concentrating on making snack

 

 Working as a team

 

 Sharing and learning at play

 

 Developing skills

 

 cooking

 

 Counting with Numicon

 

 Playing together at Nursery

 

 Nursery fun

 

 Learning through play

 

 Counting at Nursery

 

 Making choices at Nursery

 

Numicon in the dark - maths can happen at any time or in any place!

 

We hope you enjoyed these photographs.



Summer Reading Challenge

Just before school closed for the summer, we set a reading challenge for our pupils to read or be read to throughout the holidays. Each pupil was given their own log on details for our electronic bug club reading scheme. Books were allocated to each pupil according to their reading ability and interests. Pupils were encouraged to visit the library and read anything! On Friday we celebrated this challenge with our pupils during assembly by giving out certificates and vouchers. Our next reading challenge will be set for the holidays in October and your log in details will be sent home again. Please encourage your child to Read, Read, Read! It makes all the difference.

Here are the winners:

Many thanks,

Rhona O'Neill
Deputy Headteacher

A lovely start back to the new term

What a wonderful start back to the new term. All our pupils have been brilliant and have settled in really well. Students who have been here last year looked after our new ones and helped them to settle in too. Thank you to everyone for such a wonderful start back. Here are a selection of pictures of what has happened this week so far:

Everyone happy to be back at school in Secondary House 

 Learning how to question and answer in drama

 

 Applauding their classmates in Colchester Class

 

 Finding out about each other in Windsor Class

 

 Pendragon Class carrying out a traffic survey

 

 All friends together - Corfe Class dress-up

 

 Fun to be back

 

 A thumbs up from two of our new pupils

 

 Hard at work in Dover Class

 

 Donnington pupils beavering away

 

 The guys in Beaumaris working hard with shapes

 

 Excellent listening in Cardiff Class

 

 Learning through play