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• Zoom Meeting for new parents and Carers

  Thu 25 Jun 2020 H. Field

  To all our new parents and carers, Just a quick reminder about the Zoom meeting tomorrow ( Friday 25^th) at 1pm.

  This meeting will give you a chance to meet the the Senco, the therapy team, the family support worker and our behaviour team teach leader.

   

  We are all very excited to meet you and hope you can make it!

• Maplefields Achieve Sporting Recognition

  Tue 23 Jun 2020

  Maplefields School Games Recognition Award

   

  Throughout this year we have been working towards achieving our school games mark. Unfortunately, due to covid-19 and the amount of teaching time lost, the process has been delayed for the academic year. However, due to the exceptional work that had been achieved throughout year within PE, we have been provided with the School Games Recognition Award. This award has been given to schools who would have been likely to achieve recognition through the school games mark. This is awarded based on participation in SSP and district competition and broader engagement with the SSP. In order to achieve the school games mark, schools must meet expectations provided. We have met these by delivery a wide variety of sports across primary and secondary, introduced extra curriculum activities, including basketball and football and participated in competitive competitions with other schools within the county. Additionally, we have we have participated and won or at least been in the top two schools during the Northamptonshire Sport Virtual Games. These challenges have been completed by pupils in school as well as at home. It has been excellent to see involvement from pupils taking on these challenges! Another highlight of the Northamptonshire Virtual Games is that Maplefields have not only been winning the category for special schools within the county but have also been winning against all mainstream schools in the county. This is an outstanding achievement and a credit to our pupils for fully committing to the challenges. Although it is disappointing not to achieve the Gold School Games Mark for this year, we fully intend to achieve this next year…. Watch this space!! 

  

• New Classes for September 2020

  Tue 16 Jun 2020 P.Ijewsky

  New Class Groups

   To all our students and their families and carers, I am pleased to announce we are able to share the new class lists for September 2020 with you today.

   

  We have sent an email out to every contact we have for you but we know that some families may still not have provided a contact email. If you haven’t received the list and want to contact us to provide an email address please use office@maplefields.northants.sch.uk and we will help you through the process.

   

  In addition, staff will be calling home to and will be able to share your class information over the phone.

  Now we know that new classes will mean a little change for some of you and we also know that having a new teacher might not be want you want. Don’t worry. We have lots of activities and interactions planned which will help you get to know your new class mates and your staff.

   

  If you have any questions, your class staff will be continuing to make calls home this week and your new class staff will start calls from next Monday. If you have an urgent questions please email or call school and ask to speak to me. I will do my best to help.

  Kind regards

  Mr.  Ijewsky

• Local Services to support Young People

  Fri 12 Jun 2020 P.Ijewsky

  Ngage is a free and confidential substance support service for young people aged 10-18 in Northamptonshire. They remain open and still offering a support service to any and all young people who want information, education and/or guidance and support in regard to substance use.

   

  They are an early intervention service and but do also offer after care through a youth engagement programme, Evolve. Where young people can participate in training, fundraising, volunteering and fun activities, in a safe and trusted environment. 

   

  As part of their work they are keen to hear the views and voices of young people across the county, particularly during these difficult times.  They have developed a survey for young people 10-18 years, that asks them about their substance use during the lockdown restrictions. This is designed to help identify problem areas and risk issues, such as pricing, availability and other changes occurring due to Covid-19.

   

  The survey itself is anonymous. They are not storing identifiable data, but we would welcome as many responses as possible. Experience tells us that our main target audience has a mean age of 14-15 so year 10s are a key year group for us to engage with 

   

  https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ngageypcovid19survey

   

  To find out more about the service and if they might be able to help visit the website:

   

  https://aquarius.org.uk/our-services/young-peoples-services/northampton-yp/

   

• Planning for our new class groups September 2020

  Wed 10 Jun 2020 P.Ijewsky

  Dear Parents, Carers and children,

   

  The transition from one school year to the next is always an important time. Usually we would have events and activities planned at school to support this process. This year will have to be different so we have emailed out a letter and prepared a short video to help explain the how we hope the process will work.

   

  Please have a look at the video and the letter. If you have any questions you can email or call us at school and we will do our best to support you.

   

  Kind regards, Mr Ijewsky

   

• Check us out on Twitter

  Thu 04 Jun 2020 P.Ijewsky

  Hi all,

  I know that social media can get a bad press at times but we are finding Twitter is a great way of sharing with families, children and staff.  Our twitter feed has links to the new and best content on the school website. We add the Youth Sport Trust challenges on there and we add fun things to check out.

   

  You can access via any website without even signing up to twitter. You can download an app for your phone or tablet. You can chose to follow us or you can simply search for Maplefields and have a look at what you see.

   

  If you can go there today I will be tweeting fun links to make you smile as often as I can. It's really quick and easy and I've already made a list of things I want to show you all. 

  So go on, find and follow us on Twitter.