Thorn Park News - Easter 2009
Here we are at the end of another busy and exciting term where much has been achieved.
Following the recent Consultation a report went to the Council Executive where it was agreed that a new Service for Deaf and Hearing Impaired Children would be established with additional Resourced Centres at Swain House and Girlington Primary Schools and Hanson Secondary School. There are still a lot of issues to address but it is envisaged that the new Service will be in place from September 2010. At the Executive Meeting the Lead Member for Children’s Services commended the views expressed by pupils in our School Council, urging others to read and listen to what they feel must be in place within the new provisions. You can read their views and the other Consultation reports by dowloaded the documents in the right-hand panel.
Our School Council express their views on the Re-organisation
Last week two visitors from London spent the day with us to learn about educating deaf children. They are going out to Pakistan over Easter to provide support for a small school for Deaf Children in Kashmir. They will also visit the Kashmiri Institute for the Deaf, the school we had a partnership with some time ago, and express our wish to re-establish a link. These visitors wrote to thank us for the visit and what they had learned. They commented that “We both found the school a very inspiring and creative environment with the pupils fully engaged in the work”. They could understand why I am so proud of the school!
Christine Roche, Acting Head
BSL Exam Results
Congratulations to the following:-
- BSL Unit 201 – Anka, Sohaib, Chaand, Majid, Joshua, Wasim, Naila, Shabana.
- BSL Unit 101:- Mamona, Peter, Mariyh, Zaahida.
- BSL L2 – Pat Fullen.
Well done to you all!
Wayne Richards
Saturday Morning Club
Chris Lawson organises Saturday Morning Activities currently for up to 20 deaf, hearing impaired and hearing children from Thorn Park and Girlington, at the Shokk Junior Gym and Hollywood Bowl in Keighley!
Many thanks to Chris and other volunteers including some Secondary pupils for providing this fantastic out of school opportunity!
Christine Roche
Thorn Park School for Deaf Children is an all age school, which serves the population in, and around, Bradford in West Yorkshire. We also take children from a number of other neighbouring authorities, including Leeds, North Yorkshire, Wakefield and Kirklees. We offer a range of opportunities including a special school setting as well as a support service for deaf children in mainstream and other special schools.
Visit our all new Virtual Learning Environment or VLE. Here we encourage pupils to talk to each other and their teachers and to display their work for others to see. This is the place to find out what is going on around the school!
The following documents may be downloaded by clicking on the title. You will need Adobe Reader which is a free download from the Adobe web site.
- Download the Fair Processing Layer One document
- Download the Fair Processing Layer Two document
- Report on the Consultation on the Proposal for the Establishment of a Service for Deaf and Hearing Impaired Pupils to be Delivered at Additionally Resourced Centres
- Draft SEN Improvement Test
- Report to Executive Meeting 24th February 2009
- List of Consultees and Correspondence Issued
- Download the school prospectus (pdf)
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