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PFA Easter Hamper Raffle
PFA Easter Hamper Raffle – we raised £83 from the sale of raffle tickets – thank you everyone for supporting the PFA. Well done to George and Lilly : well deserved winners
Information for Parents/Carers (CAMHS self-referrals, Aiming High Activities over Easter, Staffordshire Together for Carers Service)
Camhs will be launching their website over the next few weeks. Young people 12-18 are now able to make a self referral.
- Sherratts Wood Activities – Sherratts Wood is running some sessions over the Easter holidays in addition to their regular Saturday activities at the farm in Middleton Green. Activities are open to young people aged 5-17 who have a special educational need or disability. A parent/carer must also stay. Please note that young people do not have to have a formal diagnosis to take part in Aiming High activities. If you are unsure whether your child can take part then please just speak to our booking team who will be happy to help. Let Us Play Activities – Join the team for some fun themed activities at their centre during April or for a trip to Drayton Manor Park in the Easter Holidays. For full details of these an all of our other activities please see the link below:
Aiming high – Search Results | Staffordshire Connects
To book places please call 0300 111 8007 (option 5). Our other providers are working hard to finalise more activities in April and details of these will be sent out as soon as possible.
Please see attached information leaflet about the new Staffordshire Together for Carers Service, which replaces the Carers Hub and will be delivered by a new provider to Staffordshire, N-compass, from April 6th 2021. The leaflet also includes information about triage and formal carers assessments for carers of all ages, which will be managed in-house from this date.
Turn on the subtitles
Did you know that if you turn the subtitles on Children’s TV that it can double the chances of them leaving school as a proficient reader?
Please see the link below for information and evidence.
World Book Day – Hamper Project – March 2021
Book Hampers – A Greywood MST Project
The pupils of Henry Chadwick Primary School, Queens Croft and The Friary, whether at school or at home, spent World Book Day celebrating their love of books as well as a host of other activities, from posing questions to the previous Staffordshire Poet Laureate to family fun orienteering. Their love of books has now spilled out into the community.
As children up and down the country prepared for World Book Day, the pupils at Greywood MST were already taking part in an exciting project which demonstrated the true meaning of World Book Day.
World Book Day began to ensure that all children had access to a book. A survey by the National Literacy Trust found that in 2019, a staggering 380,000 children still did not have a book of their own.
The English leads from each of the Greywood MST schools have worked together on a community project in an attempt to reduce this shocking statistic. They decided to ask all pupils, from Early Years to Sixth Form, to recommend their favourite book. Of these recommendations, 12 books were chosen to form a hamper of well-loved stories. The books vary in age range and interest but the commonality is that they were chosen by children for children in the local community.
This week, to coincide with World Book Day, these hampers have been donated to the charities Project Pathway and Family Support Services (Staffordshire). Greywood MST are thrilled to have provided these books for families in the Lichfield area and hope that the children will all have access to a fantastic story to enjoy on World Book Day.
We would like to thank the pupils of the Trust, without whose recommendations this project would not have been possible, to the Spalding Books for their support with the initiative and Project Pathway and Family Support Services for the work they do supporting local families.
