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Showcase of Autism in Schools Programme

By Julie Jeffries, in SEND SUPPORT - Monday, 30 October 2023

Hertfordshire's Showcase of Autism in Schools Programme is being held on Thursday 16th November at Robertson House, Stevenage, and will be an amazing opportunity for you to hear from Hertfordshire professionals about supporting children and young people with autism. 

See the attached flier to find out more about this event and to book your free place.

Tune into ASD

By Julie Dunthorne, in SEND SUPPORT - Friday, 27 October 2023

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

Join Angels representative for a coffee and a chat!

By Mrs Jeffries, in SEND SUPPORT - Thursday, 19 October 2023

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!

World Mental Health Day Yoga

By Mental Health Lead, in SEND SUPPORT - Wednesday, 11 October 2023

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. 

 

Free online courses

By Mrs Jeffries, in SEND SUPPORT - Friday, 6 October 2023

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

SEN Coffee Morning

By Julie Jeffries, in SEND SUPPORT - Friday, 6 October 2023

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!

Children's Wellbeing Practitioner Workshops (October-December 2023)

By Julie Dunthorne, in SEND SUPPORT - Friday, 29 September 2023

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.

Learn about SEN services available to you

By Mrs Jeffries, in SEND SUPPORT - Wednesday, 20 September 2023

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 28th 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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Kindness workshop with 52 lives

By Mental Health lead, in SEND SUPPORT - Tuesday, 19 September 2023

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.   

'The abilities in me' books

By Mrs Jeffries, in SEND SUPPORT - Tuesday, 19 September 2023

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 20th 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/