This is a bespoke training course to help parents gain knowledge and understanding of Autism and related conditions, and learn how to effectively tune into your child or young person to support them to be the best version of themselves.

This FREE Zoom course takes place on Monday 20th November from 7pm - 9pm

See attached flier for more details and how to book

Don't forget to pop along for some or all of our coffee session tomorrow morning (Friday). It's on the lower site from 9am-10am and we have a representative from Angels support group coming along to share what they do and discuss how they can help families.

Looking forward to seeing lots of you there!

Thank you to all of the families who took part in the yoga work shop with Mrs Toll, to celebrate World Mental Health day. 

We took mindful breaths and meditated to begin our practice before moving into a nourishing yoga flow that stretched and energised our bodies! 

We also had some fun playing games and creating our own sequences, you can see some of our families practising their sequence in the pictures. 

It was the perfect activity to care for our mental health. 

Supporting links have a few great courses coming up to support children with suspected or diagnosed Autism or ADHD. They are all available to book online and are all virtual courses. Please don't forget to let us know if you attend and discover any great tips we can share with the rest of the school community. We hope you fnd them helpful!

They have the following coming up:

School avoidance

Tech Use

The teenage years

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/supporting-links-15053924960

This month's 'coffee and chat' will be taking place on Friday 20th October at 9.00 - 10.00am in the lower building Family Room (enter via the pre-school entrance).

As usual, this is open to all parents and carers of children with SEN and is an informal oportunity to seek advice, share tips and not feel alone!

This month we have representatives joining us from Angels Support Group and the Autism in Schools Herts Parent Carer Involvement. 

We look forward to seeing many of you there!

These on-line workshops are open to all young people & parents/carers of children and young people who attend a school or are registered to a GP in Hertfordshire.  Click on the link below for more details and a link to book your place.

The Local Offer website lets parents, young people and professionals know what special educational needs and disabilities services are available in Hertfordshire, and who can access them. There is so much more than that, too.

There is a session on Thursday 28^th September at 8pm where a friendly face from the Local Offer team will take you through what’s on the website and how you can use it to find the right services and support.

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Today all pupils in year 1-6 took part in a brilliant virtual workshop on kindness with the wonderful charity '52 lives'. 

We had an online Kindness Workshop from the charity 52 Lives (www.52-lives.org) and their School of Kindness! We learned that kindness has three qualities – being friendly, generous and considerate.  We learnt about the science of kindness and the positive impact it has on our physical and mental health. Next, we practised empathy by watching videos of kindness in action and then said kind things to each other in the classroom.  To put our kindness into action, we thought of someone we knew who could do with a little kindness. We then made them something in our classrooms and plan to give it to them this week.  Finally, we looked at the quote ‘be the change that you want to see in the world’ and decided that we can help to create the kind of world we want to live in. 

The School of Kindness has a Kids’ Club which is free to join where you will get a free newsletter with kind challenges, stories, activities, jokes, competitions and videos to watch.  Just visit www.schoolofkindness.org/kids-club to sign up.   

It was great to see so many of you at our SEN coffee session last week, we hope it was useful and look forward to seeing you at our next one. It will be happening on Friday 20^th October and we have a representative from Angels. Angels is an experience-led charity, based in Hertfordshire, which provides individualised, professional expertise and advice supporting autistic children and their families. It will be a fantastic opportunity to get advice and ask those burning questions!

At the session, we looked at the excellent set of books written by local author, Gemma Keir. As promised, here is the link to look at the range of books she has produced and the Abilities in Me foundation she has created.

Happy reading!

https://theabilitiesinme.com/

Welcome back! We hope you all had a fantastic summer and that you are managing to get a bit of a rest now the children have returned to school!

We have our first coffee session of the year taking place on Friday 15th Sept straight after drop off in the Family Room on the lower site. This is for parents and home adults of children with SEN or who feel their child may be on an SEN pathway and it is open for all year groups across the school. It would be great for you to come along, share advice, get advice and find out about what we have to offer this year.  

Looking forward to seeing you next Friday and until then, enjoy the sun!