Mabel Prichard School

We made the Oxford Mail and Oxfordshire LIve today. We're looking forward to Jon Mackay Illustration joining us again tomorrow...

SEND school pupils begin creating sensory mural Pupils at Mabel Prichard School have begun making a sensory mural for their school.

The wall is making amazing progress. We're now on week 2 of 6 and are looking forward to inventing and making sensory magical creatures to live in our forest next week. For now, the sun is starting to set and the forest is getting deeper. Thank you Jon Mackay for this wonderful learning opportunity

Our students at Mabel Prichard School are excited to work with local artist Mackay to create an interactive story wall over the next 6 weeks. Jon has worked with Gary Barlow, Keane and The Luminieres (among many others) as well as creating original artwork for Wilderness, Download and Lattitude Festivals. His work may even be spotted on a wall in the Whoniverse in the new series in May.

Over the next 6 weeks, learners from both sites at our wonderful school for students aged 2 to 19 with complex learning difficulties, are helping Jon create the background story, before creating their own interactive creatures to live on the wall.

If anyone has any contacts with suppliers of paint, paint brushes, sparkly and tactile resources, we would really appreciate donations.

Below is week 1. We are very excited to see how the wall grows much bigger and evolves into a magical world to inspire story telling, joint attention and play.

Our Guinea Pigs have aspirations to be modells and our students are helping them through their new enterprise scheme. You can order on the email address below and pay through our GoFundMe page. Seasons Squeakings everyone!

DON’T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY!!

Come and meet with Oxfordshire County Council’s senior leaders in Education and Social Care.

We are keen to meet with you all and listen to any concerns you may have about our services and ideas for how we can work better together.

Friday 15th November 2019 – 9.30am to 12noon at The King’s Centre, Osney Mead, Oxford, OX2 0ES.

This is a FREE event but you do need to pre-book your place -

Parent/Carer Coffee Morning Come and meet with Oxfordshire County Council’s senior leaders in Education and Social Care. We are keen to meet with you all and listen to any concerns you may have about our services and ideas for how we can work better together.

Video on Child Drug Exploitation for parents
All Schools, Parents
Short video for teenagers & parents explaining how criminals are exploiting children in Oxfordshire
The Family Solutions team in Witney is made up of the Early Help team and the Statutory team. Together we support families in West Oxfordshire who are experiencing a wide range of difficulties. Over the past two years we have been increasingly concerned about a number of young people who are being exploited, or are at risk of being exploited, in connection with selling drugs. We have been working closely with schools and the Thames Valley Police neighbourhood teams to identify young people early and provide the right help. It is an area of work that we are still developing.
As part of this work we have started holding ‘get togethers’ for parents who are concerned that their children may be involved in drug exploitation. This is a chance for us to listen to their struggles, provide some advice and for them to support one another. We hope that by linking parents up they will be in a better position to keep their children safe. We have been delivering this group jointly with our colleagues in the neighbourhood police team. We put the video together as a way of explaining the issue to parents who have not been part of the group. We hope that it will also be a useful tool when working with young people who are at risk of exploitation.
We showed it to our parents group who gave good feedback; one parent said “I wish I had seen this two years ago”. Another, who we have recently started working with, acknowledged that they felt really worried for their child after watching it as it made sense of his behaviour.

Child Drug Exploitation * A short video for teenagers and parents explaining how criminals are exploiting children in Oxfordshire to sell drugs.

Cineworld’s autism friendly screening of “Missing Link” will now be shown on Monday 15th April at 11.00am instead of Friday 12th April. This is showing at their Didcot, Witney, High Wycombe & Milton Keynes cinemas.

Odeon are now also showing “Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun” on Sunday 21st April at 10.15am. This will be on at their Oxford, Aylesbury, Maidenhead and Milton Keynes Stadium.

Wanted. Can anyone help?

Due to the adverse weather conditions the school will be closed today.