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Hi everyone,

Happy Friday on this sunny autumn day! It鈥檚 nice that it鈥檚 still relatively warm and light, before the clocks go back. Autumn is a lovely time on school, as you can see from the Early Years Group and some Outdoor Learning activities! It鈥檚 a lovely time before the rush towards Christmas and the end of the year too, after half term. It鈥檚 been a long half and there鈥檚 another week to go though!

Please do have a look at Eileen鈥檚 blog which I know many of you enjoy, and Joel has put together some very good stuff this week about Online Safety too, so there鈥檚 always lots to read from us, or to peruse on the school and company websites as well if you鈥檙e a big reader!

Otherwise, there are a wide variety of articles to read this week, and some really interesting things: Intensive Interaction, Turn on the Subtitles, the Wellbeing Connect project, Resilience Day, safeguarding stuff 鈥� but also the lovely usual highlights of stars, Makaton and the like too

Thanks for your continued support and all the best. Cheers!

John S

馃槉 from John & the PHS Team 馃槉

We have 3 Super-Steering Groups which deliver our Key Drivers through our curriculum. The Key Drivers are Communication, Wellbeing and Independence. The Groups are Literacy, Physical Development and Personal Development

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Literacy

Becky, our Literacy Lead, leads a team that improve all aspects of literacy, including this year a lot of handwriting and oracy (it鈥檚 OK, she鈥檒l be going into explain all of that) as well as reading, phonics, books and all sorts!

This week we have Sarah with Turning on the Subtitles!

Here at 最新麻豆原创 School, we are always exploring strategies and ideas to support our students to further develop their literacy skills.听 鈥楾urn On The Subtitles鈥� (TOTS) is a worldwide initiative which is quickly becoming the largest worldwide literacy campaign. The aim of the initiative is to change the way children and young people engage with television by combing screen time with reading time and as a result increase language acquisition and develop reading skills.

There are some familiar faces from the world of TV that are supporters of the campaign including Lenny Henry, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Stephen Fry.

In 2024 the initiative has introduced a new service for television broadcasters 鈥楥aterpillar Captions鈥�

The blue caterpillar logo indicates that the channels and streaming services and shows that will captions in a specific font and arrangement of text on a screen for younger viewers.听 If you would like further information about the TOTS initiative, please click on the link

Physical Development

Everything that is fabulous in the world of Physical Development! This includes physio, hydro, MOVE, PE, HI, VI, a lot of OT and all sorts of key areas for us, including all of the Outdoor Learning, John Muir Award and many other aspects. Steph oversees this and will ensure that an aspect is shared in the blog each week

This week, Abi has been working with Jackson working hard in MOVE developing his leg strength to bounce his way into the weekend

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Well done, Jackson! Bouncing Star!

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Personal Development

One of the best things about the school and one of the most important for our pupils, PD covers PSHE, Wellbeing, Careers, Social Moral Spiritual & Cultural, Online Safety, Behaviour and similar areas. Jo pulls it all together. Let鈥檚 see what Jo and the team have in store for us this week 鈥� quite a lot as usual I think!

The team have done a lot of work on Mental Health Day, Black History Month and poverty

Some more world mental health day work from 4AJ:

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

4KR have learned about International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, which is acknowledged on the 17th October. The students looked at the UN website to remember the logo and discussed how poverty can affect people in everyday life across the globe. As a class they explored the website called Values Money and Me where they played a game about managing a shopping budget and making sensible choices with spending

Wellbeing!

Here鈥檚 Andy! We heard about the whole team last week, which was great, and how this Connect project is continuing. Let鈥檚 get the latest

Hello everyone!

Continuing our wellbeing theme of 鈥淐onnect鈥� this week鈥檚 challenge focused on helping others. We invited you to think of ways to lend a hand, whether through a small act of kindness or a big gesture. We can鈥檛 wait to hear what you鈥檝e been up to!

A HUGE shoutout to Kayden D for volunteering in outdoor learning! He helped extinguish the fire and tidy up, Hannah said, 鈥淚t was such a thoughtful gesture. I thanked him with one of the yummy spam sandwiches we’d made on the fire!鈥�

Ellie B in 4RR has also gone above and beyond to support her friends this week, showing empathy and kindness when they were feeling down. This is the kind of help we love to see鈥攚ell done, Ellie!

We hope you all enjoyed making a difference this week!

Next week, our challenge is about connecting with yourself. We encourage you to听鈥淭ry something new.鈥澨齌his could be sampling new foods at lunchtime, sitting in a different spot/with a different person, or joining a new club.

Don鈥檛 forget to share your photos and stories with Andy at a.dawson@percyhedley.org.uk. Let鈥檚 keep connecting!

Feel free to send any photos or comments to Andy at听a.dawson@percyhedley.org.uk听Let鈥檚 keep the fun going!

Behaviour for Learning (BfL)

Behaviour for Learning (BfL) is a new team, overlapping sometimes with Safeguarding and Mental Health. BfL is an approach to understanding and developing children鈥檚 behaviour that focuses on their relationship with their self, others and the curriculum, and promotes readiness for education. The BfL team support staff and pupils.听The BfL approach is consistent with our values and compatible with systems such as PBS and NAPPI

Resilience Day

Nat mentioned Resilience Day here last week 鈥� it鈥檚 a great thing for us to be doing. Let鈥檚 hear from Nat now

On the 10^th October, we supported the charity 鈥榊oung Minds鈥� on their Hello Yellow Day on our usual collapsible day as part of our Resilience Framework. In order to promote a healthy output for negative emotions we made a collaborate piece of art where students were encouraged to get creative and release their 鈥榥egative thoughts鈥� by splattering paint on a blank canvas. The students certainly weren鈥檛 afraid to get messy and the majority had a go and produced a lovely design (full reveal pending). Alongside this project the student had access to other activities including Mindful colouring, Pilates, movies and other relaxing activities designed to be relaxing or fun.

Take a look at some of the photos that were taken on the day! (It took a little while to clean up after! 馃槅)

Intensive Interaction with Beth!

Happy Intensive Interaction Week!听听

Intensive Interaction Week is an annual week when people from around the world collectively do something 鈥榓 bit extra鈥� to promote the Intensive Interaction approach and its life-enriching qualities

What is Intensive Interaction?听

Intensive Interaction is an approach designed to help people who, regardless of cognitive or physical ability, have some sort of social communication impairment. For example, they may not use or understand speech, they might behave passively and wait for things to happen rather than initiate, or they may be very active and make it difficult for people to know how to engage and interact with them. They may have difficulty in social situations, for example struggling with eye contact or taking turns, or they may struggle being with people.听Intensive Interaction helps develop communication skills and build better relationships with people. It helps our young people to connect with the adults around them. There are a range of strategies which we use within Intensive Interaction but听essentially it is about joining a pupil in THEIR world, speaking THEIR language (verbally or non-verbally), at THEIR pace. The pupil initiates and we follow their lead in whatever language and communication the pupil uses

Intensive Interaction has many outcomes, here are a few:

听Social Communication Outcomes

• Enjoying being with another person听
• Developing the ability to attend to that person听
• Concentration and attention span听
• Learning to do sequences of activity with a person听
• Taking turns in exchanges of behaviour听听
• Sharing personal space听
• Learning to regulate and control arousal levels听
• Using and understanding eye contacts听
• Using and understanding facial expressions听
• Using and understanding other non-verbal communications听
• Using and understanding physical contacts听
• Vocalising and using vocalisations meaningfully (including speech)

Psychological and Emotional Outcomes

• Knowing that others care, learning to care听
• Enjoying being with another person 鈥� connecting, bonding, etc.听
• Attachment, attunement听
• Self-security, to feel safe, secure, calm听
• Self-esteem, sense of self听
• To identify own feelings and see the same in others听
• Gradually to understand feelings听听
• Trust听
• Empathy, knowing/caring about how somebody else feels听
• Right hemisphere brain development

How have we celebrated this week?听

• In school this week some of our classes have given pupils more sessions than normal dedicated to focus solely on Intensive Interaction
• We have daily posts about Intensive Interaction on our Facebook page so please read, like and share them
• We captured photos of some lovely communicative moments around school of staff demonstrating a responsive environment. We also took photos from Intensive Interaction sessions which hopefully help show what Intensive Interaction is!
• Just over 30 Learning Support Assistants from across all departments and our Admin Team (see our group photo!) also completed their final teaching week of a Responsive Environment module. The purpose of this module was to learn about the importance of being attuned to our pupils, how we can be more responsive and an introduction to Intensive Interaction. The course was delivered by Beth Edwards (Teacher) and Rachel Jiggins (Speech and Language Therapist) who are currently training to become Intensive Interaction Trainers for the 最新麻豆原创 Foundation.听Next half term LSAs will continue learning by reflecting on examples of good practice and learning more by reading the latest research

You can find out more by clicking the button below,听or feel free to email Beth or Rachel 鈥撎�e.edwards@percyhedley.org.uk听or听rachel.jiggins@percyhedley.org.uk听who would love to chat!

听Welcome to Early Years!

Here鈥檚 Kerry with what鈥檚 been happening recently with our youngest pupils

Once again this week our focus has been Autumm

In our outdoor learning session we explored the outdoor learning area for coloured items to match to our colour board. We have explored fruits and vegetables in our exploration area. We are all enjoying our focus story about Mr Maize the scarecrow, using our senses to explorer. The weather was a little colder this week, so our cold weather box has been out most days. The children explored the ice, trying to melt it with the pipettes, budding scientists in the making.听听 We have also had our everyday soft play and Rebound visit along with outdoor play

This week we have started our artist of the week, each week a piece of Artwork will be chosen and take pride of place on the wall in our creative area. This week鈥檚 artist is Aimee! Aimee made this lovely picture by dabbing different colours on to her hand then printing it on to the paper

Amazing, Aimee!

Well done!

Therapy Star of the Week! Love Therapy Star of the Week, especially when it鈥檚 Jackson and Jay!

Jay and Jackson celebrated World Food Day on Wednesday. They had lots of fun in the sensory cooking session- Jackson made a delicious dessert for his lunchtime

鈥�..from John & the Team here at PHS

Our Key Drivers:

Communication, Wellbeing, Independence