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Posted on Facebook - 25 Apr 2024
In KS1 Gardening Club this week the children enjoyed planting sweet peppers, sweetcorn, runner beans and more! These were planted in the raised beds and they are looking forward to keeping them watered and watching them grow. Thank you to a parent in Year 2 for gifting these to us, we are always so appreciative of any plants, resources or time shared to help Gardening Club!
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Posted on Facebook - 25 Apr 2024
The Inclusion Team would like to draw parents and carers who have applied for an EHCP for their child in the last two years to the message below:
Parent carer reps from HPCI are meeting with the Independent Reviewer on Friday this week, to share the experiences of families with the EHCP request and needs assessments process in Hertfordshire.
If you have applied for an EHCP for your child or young person in the last 2 years, we'd love to hear your feedback. Whether it was agreed or not, if it happened on time, what the communication was like, if you went on to mediation, appeal or not, whatever felt important to your family.... send it all to contact@hertsparentcarers.org.uk
We do already have lots of information from our annual survey, from our conversations with families at community events, from our Involvement Partners and from the work many of our reps do when not volunteering for HPCI, but we'd love to hear anything else you want shared.
We'd also like to thank those parent carers who have already got in touch with their thoughts.
There's more information about the Independent Review on the HCC website
https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/about-the-council/news/news-archive/independent-review-commissioned-to-examine-send-needs-assessment-decision-making
We know the review and the process of parental involvement has caused some debate. Those are largely outside our control. The conversations are encouraging us to reflect on how we explain what we do (as the parent carer forum). For the next two days though, our focus is on making sure we have have as full a set of evidence and views as possible, to take to the meeting on Friday.
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Posted on Facebook - 24 Apr 2024
In pro-social time in Year 1 we have been learning about the skill of compromise. We had to choose a game and each person in the pair chose the game they wanted to play. If the pairs did not want to play the same game, they had to solve the problem by discussing a compromise that could be made so that both were happy. Some pairs chose to play one game and then the other game. Some chose to play a totally different game that they would both be happy with. It was lovely to see the children discussing how potential problems could be solved without people becoming upset or cross.
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Posted on Facebook - 24 Apr 2024
We combined Science and English today in Year1! We began by planting seeds and thinking carefully about what seeds need so that they can grow into healthy plants. We worked together to put soil into pots and to then plant peas and sweetcorn. We carefully watered them and have put them where they will get the sunlight.
After this we thought about the order that we had needed to do things in and began writing captions that we will be able to use to write a set of Instructions for 'How to plant a seed'.