Post 11 Centre

Dear Parents/Carers,

If we haven’t had the chance to meet yet; my name is Andrew

Chipchase and I joined the Post 11 Centre at the beginning of

this term and what a quick and fun term this has turned out to

be! From the very first week we have been busy and the

students will continue to work hard until the final day of term to

achieve their goals.

Amongst other things; the centre has had successful reviews

from the Local Authority and from the National Autistic Society. We have started new

courses such as New Horizons and the John Muir Award and the Duke of Edinburgh and

ASDAN programmes will continue. We also still have the Christmas Fayre and the visit to

the pantomime to look forward to.

I have really enjoyed my first few months and look forward to building on the great

relationships that staff and parents have within this vibrant department.

Thank you for your continuing support.

Andrew Chipchase

FRIENDS OF JARROW AUTISTIC CENTRE

As you may be aware, staff, parents/carers/grandparents of the students from Post 11 Centre

formed a charity … Friends of Jarrow Autistic Centre...many years ago which have helped over

the years to raise funds for the benefit of Post 11 students. In the past, the money raised has

helped to fund trips to Thurston, Eurodisney, Kielder, several summer schemes, a minibus and

other trips and events which help students gain independence and develop their social skills.

New volunteers are now desperately needed to ensure that this support group continues. If you

are interested and can help — please get in touch. We would love to hear from you!

INFORMATION

Pantomime—Tuesday afternoon 15th December 2015—can parents please pick up their

children at about 5pm from Post 11 car park.

Christmas Fayre—Wednesday afternoon 16th December 2015— sale of student crafts,

cakes, refreshments and raffle. Raffle tickets on sale. All parents, grandparents etc

welcome.

School breaks up an 18th December at 2pm Back to school on Tuesday 5th January

2016.

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM STAFF AND STUDENTS OF POST 11

ARCHIE DOBSON’S WAR

Following last years successful presentation of Archie Dobson’s War here are

some still photographs taken during the show.

Archie Dobson‘s war is a fictitious story centred around a ten year old Jarrow boy

and his experiences throughout World War 2. The characters in the play were all

played by Post11 students.

Our students spent lots of time and

energy learning lines and songs and their

tremendous efforts produced a very

successful night much appreciated by

all who attended. DVD copies can be

purchased in the new year!

CHILDREN IN NEED

On Friday 13th November 2015, class 2 (including myself) took part in jBay

(Jarrow School’s play on ebay day) for Children in Need, we sold toys and

technology on a two table stall.

We are year 9 students so we had not done this before and we won’t do it again!

jBay was invented to raise money for children less fortunate than ourselves.

As part of the Post 11 unit, we helped raise £262.50! The rest of Post11 paid 50p to

wear non-uniform and were sponsored to do different activities.

Mainstream year 9 ran jBay stalls too.

Eleanor Mellor

Thanks to all who supported this cause and

helped to raise such a tremendous amount of

money for Children in Need!

DUKE OF EDINBURGH

This term our Key stage 4 students began the Duke of Edinburgh programme. The

students are enjoying the challenge of turning an unused polytunnel on school grounds

into a Post-11 garden that we can all enjoy. The students have been working closely with

staff to plan out what they will plant, make, build and change about the space. It is great

to see our students so involved in their work and I am sure parents and carers would be

proud of the effort of each of the young people.

We are beginning our Volunteering unit from January. This will see students creating food

parcels, serving tea and coffee and helping others less fortunate than ourselves at the

Salvation Army in South Shields or at Marsden Lane Health centre. This has only been

made possible due to the support of the KEY project (South Shields) and I know parents

would wish me to extend their thanks for such brilliant support of our students.

Staff and Students

working in the poly

tunnels.

ART AND DESIGN

Eleanor Mellor. In art, we have been designing products and their adverts which could be used on TV and made videos of each other pitching our advert ideas on an iPad. On Monday 7th December 2015 we watched each other’s advert pitches, which had been recorded in a previous performing arts les-son on the iPad. Chloe and I had revealed that Chushii (chocolate sushi balls) (Chloe’s idea) and Venus chocolate (my idea) were partners. You see, there is #chushii in my advert and #Venus in Chloe’s advert.

There was also Caribbean punch, blood energy, T-R tea,

WOW soap, magical elves chocolate and tomato soup flavoured soup.

Merry Christmas from Eleanor Mellor.

CYBER BULLYINGCYBER BULLYING

CLASS 2CLASS 2

During ICT, class 2 looked at cyberDuring ICT, class 2 looked at cyber--bullying; colouring in posters, bullying; colouring in posters,

designing their own posters and generally discussing bullying online, designing their own posters and generally discussing bullying online,

bullying by text/phone and other methods used by cyberbullying by text/phone and other methods used by cyber--bullies.bullies.

Here are two of the posters designed by the students Here are two of the posters designed by the students --