Sherwood Park Newsletter

Dear Parents and carers,

It's been a lovely week on both campuses with lots to share and celebrate. The sun has shone all week and our children and staff have really enjoyed utilising the outdoor spaces onsite and in the community.

Students from Sherwood Park attended Voice in a million on Wednesday so do read Anna's lovely write up (attached). It also has some fantastic pictures!

Both campuses have been gaming for Ukraine today - There are some pictures from the Hill campus below. Thanks to everyone for your kind donations, I will announce the total raised next week including some pictures from Sherwood Park campus!

Parent Information Event – Benefit Upskilling

On Wednesday 30th March at 10am there will be an online Parent Information Event, delivered by Zahir Khan from the Department for Work and Pensions, regarding how to apply for benefits for your child such as Disability Living Allowance (DLA), Personal Independent Payment (PIP) and the transition from PIP to Universal Credit (UC). Following the presentation there will be a question and answer session. Although Zahir will not be able to answer queries regarding your own individual applications, he will be able to address more general queries about eligibility and the application process.

If you would like to attend this Information Event, please fill in the Google Form below with your name and current email address. You will then be sent a link to the Microsoft Teams meeting via email before the event.

https://forms.gle/ZcdgUjSmZx66kbFZ8

Upcoming Events – Parents Welcome

Easter Service – Sherwood Park Campus

Monday 28th March – 10am

St Mary’s Church, Beddington Park

Easter Service – Sherwood Hill Campus

Tuesday 29th March - 10.30

Good shepherd church - Carshalton Beeches

Citizenship Assembly – Sherwood Park Campus

Tuesday 29th March - 10am

Citizenship Assembly – Sherwood Hill Campus

Wednesday 30th March 10am

End of term information:

Pupils finish on Friday 1st April at 13:30 and return to school on Tuesday 19th April.

Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the weather!

Simon

Sapphire class have had a good week. They have enjoyed making mothers day art and had a great time at the park on Wednesday. Well done to all!

Indigo class have had a great week and made some wonderful Mother's day art work today. The boys took time to read the poem and make something that they should be very proud of. Well done to Tony and Charlie this week for accessing the community again. It is also lovely to see Charlie smiling and singing again after a difficult few weeks. Well done Indigo class, you continue to make us proud each week.

Teal class had an amazing time enjoying the beautiful sunshine with lots of opportunities for the outdoor learning. Students enjoyed bike rides, Zac, Zara and Luke are very independent now in using tricycles. They are also happy to wear bike helmets to stay safe. All the class had fantastic time during music session with David. Nana was amazing at playing on the piano, Lulu loved playing on the guitar and signing and Ritma enjoyed the drum. Even though, the class is very noisy during this session all students are always happy to participate, explore instruments and interact with staff and each other. This is amazing, well done!

Next week we are planning lots of Easter activities including Easter Egg Hunt we hope the weather will stay nice. Have a lovely weekend everyone!

This week, Lavender class has enjoyed the warmer weather, outside sporting activities and gardening. Lavender has had a superb trip to the library, and everyone showed interest in a range of books. In preparation for Easter, the class have enjoyed decorating eggs and participating in an exciting eggy attention autism session. Star of the week goes to Marco for great listening and road safety in the community Well done, Marco! Have a lovely weekend!

This week in Mint class we had taken our learning outdoors enjoying the warm weather and the sun. Student have played and explored water play activities linked with 'The world around me'. We also liked washing the cars during pretend play activity in the garden. We have been also busy making cards to celebrate mother's day!!!

Our star of week goes to George who has been transitioning to different places around school. He is been transitioning to sensory room and walking upstairs to life skills to prepare his garlic bread.

Well done to everyone in Mint class for working this week with new and less familiar staff!!

Violet class this week hhas had a rather busy week. The students have enjoyed a group music therapy session with music therapist David, sharing and playing instruments together.

Practised their road safety skills during 3 community visits; to the cafe, ecology centre and to Ruskin Park. All of the students have shown increased engagement during transitions in the community, stopping and looking out for cars before crossing the road with visual and adult support. Well done Violet class, you're all doing so well.

This week Lilac class have been enjoying the sunshine and using the Bike's in the playground. Its been lovely to see all the boys taking turns, considering their friends and interacting using their social skills. Josh is our star of the week as he has been keeping to his deadline of writing a short story for the news letter.

Olive Class have had a fun week enjoying the sunshine! We have taken many of our lessons outside and have been working hard on shared play, communication and pre-writing skills. Our star of the week this week is Sean for initiating interaction and continuing it for serval turns and some fantastic communication. Have a lovely weekend.

This week in Lime class we have been developing on our play skills and interactions with familiar adults and pupils have been enjoying our soft play and outside sessions! A highlight of our week was making our mothers day pots and planting our flowers and watering them, learning all about gardening and people who are special to us. Some of us also transitioned upstairs to raise money gaming for Ukraine which was exciting for our learners to be a part of. Our celebration star this week goes to Jesse for interacting so well with adults engaging in short play activities whilst smiling and giggling. Well done everyone and have a fantastic weekend

This week has been very difficult to nominate one star of the week as they all have been amazing! But instead, we would like to nominate “Bluebell parents” as star of the week. We had a lovely morning event with them and they had a great time. After talking about ‘adult stuff’ we went to the playground and we enjoyed playing with the children! Thank you very much for coming and we can’t wait to have you in school again!

This week, Hebe class would like to celebrate Jack for persevering and having a great attitude towards all tasks and activities, even the ones he finds somewhat tricky. Well done, Jack!

Connor is Orchid Class 'Star of the Week' for excellent problem solving skills. Connor realised that he had sat in a friend's chair by mistake. He stood up and went to find his own chair independently!

This week has been very exciting in Marigold we have had Voice in a million for five of our pupils, we have made mothers day Chocolate and cards. This week we want to celebrate Ruby as she was very independent and mature when on her school Trip to Voice in a million she also was able to wear her hearing aids for the whole of the concert which is a very big achievement for Ruby Well done!

Bamboo's star of the week is Katie. Katie has been strongly advocating for herself this week, using her voice to express her thoughts and who she would like to be work along side.

Lily Class Start of the Week is Rayan for trying really hard to imitate the play of others in the playground by rolling hoops and attempting to join their game of football. Rayan is trying really hard to communicate with his peers and showing real desire to join them in play.​ Well done Rayan!

Sunflower and Tulip class came together as one class this week and had a great time. We enjoyed swimming altogether on Monday morning and in the afternoon had a sensory massage story and games. On Tuesday we participated in write dance and a fantastic speaking and listening choosing session in the morning. In the afternoon we had a special visitor in to do sensory dance with us and we especially liked the gold foil blankets. Wednesday morning we had trampolining, music and movement and sensology. In the afternoon we went to the park to select flowers to print for our artwork. It has been great for the pupils to mix together and they have all been happy experiencing different activities. Sunflower class' star of the week is Freddie for being so responsive to working with unfamiliar adults and showing great communication with them. Tulip's star of the week is Jeysha for her recognition with familiar adults and peers. As she has got to know more adults and peers in the playground she is now approaching them and interacting with them when she sees them around the school which is terrific.

​Daisy class has had a wonderful week. They have enjoyed participating in their Sports and Fitness class assembly and showing their peers all the different ways in which they develop their physical skills.

Charlie is Daisy Class star of the week. Charlie has worked really hard to remain alert and engaged in his learning. He has also participated well throughout the curriculum and especially on his physical skills.

Declan and his sister for sharing play activities and having fun together during a session at school

A very talented writer from Lilac class has shared two of his short stories with us.

Thank you to Josh!

So pop the kettle on and grab some biscuits - enjoy!!

Thank you to all the pupils for their amazing fundraising for Comic Relief. Our total so far is £372.90 but we still have sponsorship coming in so who knows what the total will be. The pupils really enjoyed gunging David at assembly and found it really funny. The gunge was made by Sycamore class who put custard, tinned tomatos, baked beans and a selection each of their own choosing into a bucket and mixed it up. Deyar, Alfie and Jennifer helped to tip the gunge all over him as you can see from the photos. Thank you to David for being such a great sport.