DATES TO REMEMBER

24th December to 4th January - Christmas Holidays - School Closed

7th January 2019 - Spring Term - School Open 15th February - Training Day - School Closed 18th February to 22nd February - Spring Half Term - School Closed

25th February - Spring Term - School Open

CHRISTMAS RAFFLE PRIZES

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Ticket

No. Prize Winner

1 £200 Intu Vouchers Claimed

2 Seaham Hall Spa Voucher Claimed

3 Drinks Hamper Claimed

4 Chocolate Hamper Claimed

5 Pantomime tickets and chocolate bag Claimed

6 Big Sanctury Spa Star Claimed

7 Dove Spa Set Claimed

8 Rington's Tea Hamper Claimed

9 National Trust Passes & Fondue Set Claimed

10 Nivea for men gift set Claimed

11 Make up and Chocolate gift set Claimed

12 Soap and glory gift set Claimed

13 Superdry set Claimed

14 Soap and Glory set & Belgian Chocolates Claimed

15 Bayliss & Harding Gift Tin & Spa Socks Claimed

16 Bayliss & Harding Set & Thorntons chocolates Claimed

17 FCUK gift set & Mars Selection Claimed

18 Party Lashes and Cadbury Selection Claimed

19 Zoella gift set & Candle Claimed

20 Home baking set Claimed

21 Highlighting make-up set Claimed

22 Perfume, Candle & Chocolate set Claimed

23 Superdry & Chocolate set Claimed

24 Glow hand and body gift set Claimed

25 Baby Gift set Claimed

26 Mini Mead and Panetonne Gift set Claimed

27 FCUK gift set & Celebrations Claimed

28 Necklace and Nail Set Claimed

29 Bayliss & Harding Mini body set Claimed

30 French Connection bodyset & Martini Asti Claimed

31 Sauvignon Cabernet & Prosecco Claimed

32 Quality Street Tin & M&S Christmas Pudding Claimed

33 Star Wars Comic kit & Sweeties Claimed

34 Body Butters and Mulled Wine Set Claimed

35 Biscuit Box & Celebration Tin Claimed

36 Gin & Cocktail Dice Claimed

37 M&S body lotion set Claimed

Fenwicks Snowman Claimed

A big thank you for your support with Post 16’s Kevin the Carrot

raffle. The winning number was 79 and won by our very own Kaylee McCoy. A total of £146.50 was raised for the Post 16

funds. Amazing effort by all concerned.

Newsletter No: 2

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Message from Katie Murray

Welcome to the latest edition of the newsletter for 2018! We have

had a busy first term as always and the pupils and staff have been working very hard. We have had an enjoyable run up to Christmas

with pantomimes, talent shows and Christmas coffee and crafts. Many thanks to all who attended the events- your support really is

appreciated. We have said good bye to a number of staff this term including Sue Fisher

(Executive Head teacher) and Chris McGuigan (Head of therapy) in addition to a few more. We wish them all well on their new ventures or retirement.

I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and I look for-ward to seeing you all in the New Year.

Warmest regards, Katie

A teacher from Percy Hedley School has won The Evening Chronicle Champion Teacher Award 2018. Christian Hebron helped raise funds to pay for a visual aid device for one of our students by walking a large part of Hadrian’s Wall and then cycling Coast to Coast. He was nominated for the award by an Evening Chronicle reader. A panel of judges and the Evening Chronicle readers then voted for their winner and Christian collected his award at a ceremony at the Hilton Hotel. On the night, Christian told the au-dience that he was honoured and proud to accept the award, but was also a little embarrassed as he didn’t feel that he had done anything out of the ordinary. He went on to say that many of the staff at Percy Hedley go above and beyond to help our students all of the time.

Evening Chronicle Champion Teacher Award

KEVIN THE CARROT

Welcome notes:

That first term seems to have passed in a whirlwind. By the time this Newsletter goes out, I will have had the chance to meet many of you who attend coffee mornings or

school events. I have organised 2 social coffee mornings. These are in response to parent/carer requests for opportunities to meet with other parents; mimicking the play-

ground of most mainstream schools. I must emphasise that staff other than me will not normally attend these as they have departmental ones where you can discuss your child/

young person’s progress with the team. I normally attend these as well. Next term workshops for parent/carers will commence. See the Workshop section in the

Newsletter.

The easiest way to contact me is by email, or messages can be left with Reception staff at Killingworth

Best wishes,

Eileen Robinson Email: e.robinson@percyhedley.org.uk Telephone: 0191 2161811

Contact information:

A National charity, formerly known as Contact a family is for families with disabled chil-dren. We support families, bring families together and help families take action for others.

On their website you will find downloadable resources. They also have a free helpline: 0808 808 3555

For those unable to attend the PIP workshop, Rachael Turnbull, Parent Advisor, Finance and Welfare also offers telephone advice as a 1 hour call-back service. This covers any

queries or help you need on Benefits.

Workshops/Training opportunities: Benefits Workshops:

I have arranged for Rachael Turnbull from Contact to do 2 workshops in the New Year.

Many of you have asked for these and will be: Monday 14th January 2019: PIP (Personal Independence Payment) 09.30-12.00

Monday 18th March 2019: Benefits 09.30-12.00

For these to go ahead a minimum of 10 people will be required. Booking forms have been

sent out.

E-Safety: Tuesday 12th February 2019: 10:00-11:30 (refreshments 09:30-10)

This will be delivered by Maria Mawdesley, IT Teacher at Percy Hedley School. I can’t em-phasise enough how valuable these sessions are for families and feedback from previous

sessions has been extremely positive.

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FAMILY LIASON NEWS FAMILY LIASON NEWS

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3CHe thoroughly enjoyed their Christmas trip to Newcastle. We travelled to Central Station on the Metro and then walked up to the Centre for Life to the open air ice rink. We had lots of fun sliding around on the ice in our wheelchairs with staff wearing very fetching ice grips on their shoes. We also had time to walk up to see Fenwick’s window getting very excited by the story of The Snowman. It was great to see all of the decorations making

Newcastle look very festive! A lovely day enjoyed by all. Happy Christmas from 3CHe!

3CHe GO SKATING

TS Join Blyth Lifeboat Crew

Our topic this term

has been ‘People

Who Help Us’ so the

students and staff in

TS arranged a visit

to the Lifeboat

House in Blyth. We

learned all about

staying safe near

the water. We

looked at some of

the equipment and

tried on the

uniform.

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Christmas Dinner Day

We had great fun at Seven

Stories after listening to the

Penguin vs peas performance

we then played lots of games.

1HC VISIT SEVEN STORIES

3CHe had a lovely Christmas lunch in their classroom. Thanks to all of the catering crew!

2BE Reach Dubai With Baby Shark

As part of our topic, Schools, 2BE made a video about all of the lovely things which we enjoy doing at school. The video was shared on social media and has had 6.6K views so far! We have asked other schools to tell us what they like doing at their school and already we have seen what a class in Dubai do in their maths lessons! We have also visited local primary school Bailey Green where we joined in a literacy lesson and have invited them to come to us to see what we do in our lessons. We have written letters to them and hope that we can become pen pals for the foreseea-ble future. If you haven’t seen the video you can find it on The Percy Hedley Foundation Facebook page, let us know what you think!

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PTA UPDATE PTA

Thanks to those who have supported the PTA this term. We produced, with support of 2 parents and Hedleys Printworks a lovely A3 calendar featuring many of our students.

We hope that you enjoyed browsing through. Our 100 Club has had less support than in previous years. The first draws will be done for months September to February at

the PTA AGM. If you would still like to join, it is £12 for the whole year, with half of the proceeds coming to the PTA. We have been unsuccessful in our bid to do a bucket col-

lection at Theatre Royal this year and would very much appreciate some ideas as to

how we can raise funds for the classes. I know how much the staff appreciate these funds and see how much they benefit your children/young people.

If you have any suggestions for easy ways to raise funds, please get in touch. We are

well aware of the demands on parents/carers of students attending Percy Hedley and always bear this in mind when arranging things.

Best wishes, Eileen Robinson.

We played table

cricket James was our coach.

Again a big, big thank you for your continued support with this years Christmas raffles.

The main raffles prizes are listed on the back page and all have been claimed straight away. The first prize went to one of our

students in Christian Hebron’s class, so well done and have fun spending your gift vouchers.

Fenwick were kind to us again this year and supplied a limited

addition Snowman to go with their window theme. This helped raise extra funds for the raffle and we are over the moon with our

grand total of over £1600, which will go directly into the school funds for equipment and events for the students. None of this

would be possible without your support, so again, thank you.

CHRISTMAS RAFFLES 2018

1HC LEARN TO PLAY TABLE CRICKET

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GREATEST TALENTSHOW

We all had fun at this years Express Your Elf Talent Show! The crowd was huge for an awesome, terrific show. There was magic, jokes, singing, read-

ings and dancing.

Well done to all performers who took part this year and the awesome stage crew!

Overall, it was the Greatest Talent Show in Percy Hedley’s School!

The Gymnastics was held at the Northern Hope

Centre Birtley on Wednesday 7th November. There were 7 stations ranging from vaulting,

bars, trampolining, ropes and balance beam. The students had 10 minutes at each station to prac-tice then perform certain skills which they were

awarded points out of 10. Theses scores were then added up and a total score handed in at the

end of the stations.

WANDERERS GYMNASTICS

Football Participation League

Update on the football league

Since the last newsletter the football team from post 16 have played

two more fixtures scores below

14/11/18

Special Olympics vs Hedleys 0 – 4

Tynemet vs Hedleys 0 – 3

Early Intervention vs Hedleys 4 – 4

12/12/18

The Parks vs Hedleys 2-2

South Tyneside Vs Hedleys 5 - 1

Early Intervention Vs Hedleys 3 – 2

The coach was there on both fixtures to help

and support the team who are really playing well and some of the above results do not give the team the justice they deserve.

Needless to say we are all looking forward to

the New Year

Inter schools Competitions

Hedleys have done the first two inter school

competitions Basketball and New age Kurling. Both competitions were a mixture of students

from lower school and upper school. The students who took part had been receiving coaching the term before the event and the result on the day was brilliant there were some out-

standing performances. Sports leaders helped top plan and

coordinate the events

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PE UPDATE