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Parent's Newsletter September 2015

Date added: Tuesday 15th September 2015
Latest updated: Thursday 23rd February 2023

Autumn Term Newsletter 2015

 

Dear Parents,

Welcome back to a new academic year. We hope that despite our British weather you managed to have a good ‘summer' break!

Our topic this term is ‘Ourselves' and with it being the start of a new academic year we will focus on new beginnings, friendships and relationships. We will also look at family life.

Dates for your diary:

Monday 5th October 13.30 - School Photographer

Thursday 22nd October - Harvest Workshop

Week beginning 7th December - Christmas Play (2 days to be confirmed)

17th December - Christmas Carols

 

Therapy News

The therapy team this term is:

Physiotherapist Liz Hutcherson- Working days in School Monday and Thursday.

Physiotherapist Lucy Willis- Working days in School Tuesday and Wednesday.

Speech and Language Therapist Katie Mc Caughey- School days to be arranged.

Speech and Language Therapist Cara Porter- School days to be arranged

Occupational Therapist Helen North- School days to be arranged.

Therapy Assistant Helen Hicks- Monday to Friday.

Nurse Ruth Whitthorn - working days Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

Nurse Rosa Brown- working days Monday and Tuesday.

Therapists have set days to work within school as we also carry an outpatient case load. This means we are around at other times and will answer any questions if we are free.

Due to staff changes Helen North will not be taking over as school Occupational Therapist until the end of October. She is however available and open to questions and queries, but please bear with us while these changes happen.

 

Wheelchairs-

If there are problems with your child's wheelchair and it needs to be fixed please call Pluss on 0845 058 1081. Please have the serial number from the chair ready.

If you do call please make sure it is written in your child's diary so all can see when it has been done.

We all look forward to the new academic year ahead and working together in partnership.

Deborah Down

(on behalf of the education and therapy teams)

 

Downloads:

Parent's Newsletter September 2015 [pdf]