Teamwork Professionalism Respect Ambition Positive www.lindenlodge.wandsworth.sch.uk T: 0208 788 0107 LLS News 23/07/2021 @lindenlodgesch Dear families Thank you so much for your support during a challenging time. On behalf of all staff we greatly value your support and partnership. I would also like to thank the staff who have worked tirelessly on behalf of your children and their hours of dedicated service are incredible. We hope you all have a lovely Summer. Best wishes Deborah Rix Termly Kindness Award Termly Award This term's winner for the Kindness Award Scheme is Jack from Owls. He has been chosen by the spinning wheel and we would like to congratulate him on his reward containing a £20 Amazon voucher. Congratulations Jack! The Behaviour Team Academic Award Congratulations to Jaydip for winning this year’s Academic Award.
Dear families Thank you so much for your support during a challenging time. On behalf of all staff we greatly value your support and partnership. I would also like to thank the staff who have worked tirelessly on behalf of your children and their hours of dedicated service are incredible. We hope you all have a lovely Summer. Best wishes Deborah Rix
Termly Kindness Award
Termly Award This term's winner for the Kindness Award Scheme is Jack from Owls. He has been chosen by the spinning wheel and we would like to congratulate him on his reward containing a £20 Amazon voucher. Congratulations Jack! The Behaviour Team
Academic Award
Congratulations to Jaydip for winning this year’s Academic Award.
A message from C@LL This year has been harder than ever for us all so an extra special thank you for making C@LL the supportive community it’s become. Whether that’s been attending a virtual event or talk, coming to Sunday’s walk, commenting on Classlist or just observing the conversations. C@LL is your parent/staff association and our community is not term time only. We know the holidays can sometimes be challenging so we’re here if you want to reach out via Classlist or spend time with people who understand at the summer sessions we’ve planned (more details to follow). Whatever you all do this summer, I hope it’s enjoyable and restful. Take care Naseem, C@LL Chair Wimbledon Common Friends & Family Walk, 25th July Looking forward to seeing everyone who can make it on Sunday! Please check Classlist for contact numbers on the day. C@LL buddies A number of you have signed up to be buddies for Linden Lodge parents, re-affirming what a kind and supportive community we are. Please sign up here Sibs Herd at Linden Lodge The new SH@LL Committee met for the first time this week and came up with some brilliant ideas for bringing brothers and sisters at Linden Lodge together. Please watch this space for more details in September.
Under blue skies and sunshine the EYFS classes held a lovely celebration and graduation assembly. Time was spent reflecting on all the achievements of the pupils over this last year and also for those pupils moving on to Primary what amazing journeys they have all had within their time in the EYFS. The staff team feel very privilege to have shared their journeys and proud of each of the pupils. We then had lots of fun playing with bubbles and dancing and moving to our favourite tunes from the year. We would like to wish all the EYFS pupils and families a very happy summer and a thank you for all you have done and your hard work Elizabeth Gillham
Dear parents and carers, As we come to the end of academic year in the Primary department, we are able look back and reflect on all of our pupil’s achievements. This year has been like no other and our pupils, families and staff teams have faced and overcome many challenges. I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone involved within the Primary and Early Year’s departments for their perseverance, dedica-tion and support. We will never truly understand the challenges that each and every one of you went through during the lock down periods but we always endeavour to support our families and pupils to the best of our ability. To all our primary graduates, I wish you every success heading into the secondary department and I look forward to seeing you progress through the school. To all our new starters coming into Primary and Early Year’s, I look forward to welcoming our new pupils and their families. I wish you all a restful summer break and look forward to seeing you all again in September. Best regards David The primary department celebrated and said goodbye to students moving up to the secondary department or starting a new journey. We celebrated in style creating individualised sashes, being presented with a cd made up of the students favourite songs, certificate and beautiful paragraphs describing how fantastic they all are. In class everyone shared a sway graduation assembly and were able to learn about and celebrate with their friends from other classes. Well done everyone and we wish you all well on your secondary journeys.
This term Lloyd class have been creating art with an explorer theme. This project ended with an afternoon of exploring using the art work we have made. The students had a great time searching for their animals outside. A huge thank you to Linda for providing us with these fantastic ideas, leading our art sessions and making the sessions so fun and engaging for our students!
Minerva
Lillie Recites her Poem Puck at The Globe Lillie wrote a poem about the character, Puck, from A Midsummer Night's Dream and made it her entry for the Poetry By Heart Competition. She received a commendation for the poem and was invited to recite it at The Globe Theatre with students from other schools who had also received commendations. She received thunderous applause and Poetry By Heart told her that they hope to see her back at The Globe reciting next year.
Minerva 1 are incredibly grateful to all the adults who have worked with them over the year. They wrote this to share their appreciation.
Thank you Maggie for teaching us sensational stories and poignant poems. Thank you Mrs Mukherjee for making Maths enjoyable. Thank you Lucy R for making Science amazing. Thank you Mr Bye & Linda for being so kind. Thank you Andrea for being the smartest and making our lives delicious. Thank you Kemy for always being dynamite and always being helpful. Thank you Gerard for being good at everything... how are you good at everything? Thank you Marina for being so boldly brave as to teach us Spanish. Thank you Marianna for teaching us Greek songs. Opa! Thank you Elizabeth BM for your techy talents. We love that we can email now. Thank you Joe for being clear at giving us directions. We would be lost without you... literally. Thank you Lizzie for helping us with life skills – we are more independent now. Thank you Leonie for making Braille hysterically funny. Thank you Ella & Fiona for being amazing listeners. Thank you Vicky for talking and spending time with Caitlin. Thank you Megan for helping us get unstuck with our words. Thank you Nikita for being so clever about how our bodies work. Thank you Rebecca H for all of your ideas for how to make our lives easier. Thank you Paul C for helping us play the piano like cheetahs. Thank you Jonathan for being so grounded while teaching guitar. Thank you Cynthia for being a spectacular nurse. Thank you Lucy B for bettering our Braille. Thank you Hayley for being fabulously funny. Thank you Charlotte for helping us at the most difficult times; we will miss you! Good luck at University. Thank you Martin for being respectful of our diversity and personal choices; we will miss you! Good luck at being a star. Thank you Sinéad for being a great teacher and a kind teacher; we will miss you. Good luck with your baby! We hope you name it after all of us!
The Jack Petchey Foundation have launched a brand new creative competition, detailed below. This is a fantastic opportunity for young people to get creative over the summer holidays, have their work celebrated in an exhibition and a chance to win a £500 grant to help them pursue their chosen art form! About the competition To celebrate our founder Sir Jack Petchey turning 96 this summer, we are asking young people to look ahead to the next 96 years! We want 11-19 year olds to send us a creative piece that shows their hopes and dreams for life in the year 2117. There is huge scope for what the young people could submit! Their submission could be a painting, drawing, photograph, short video, collage, a piece of creative writing – and anything they can come up with that can be digitally submitted. We also ask that the submissions have a positive outlook on the future. Entry Requirements: Entrants must be 11 - 19 Years old and live in London or Essex Must be able to submit their work (or a photo of it) digitally via our online entry form, or via
WeTransfer Submissions must be made by 5 PM on Thursday 30
th September
To find out more about the competition and submit an entry, young people should visit: https://www.jackpetcheyfoundation.org.uk/forward-to-the-future-competition/
On Thursday, Linden Lodge held a Wellbeing Day to reflect on the year we have had and celebrate what we have overcome as a community. We had a BLAST! Pupils took part in a carousel of activities, including cupcake decorating, a whole-school art project, African drumming, and a piano performance. We also had a petting zoo scheduled to join us, but their truck broke down en route and they could not make it. Lucky for us, though, the people at Rocky’s Animals have said they will reschedule our booking and give us a second booking for free! So we’ll be seeing them twice in the next year. The day ended with a whole-school clap. It was very moving to hear the applause ring out from every corner of the school. The joy from pupils was palpable throughout the day, and staff were so happy to wave them off for the summer with smiles galore. Thank you to the following people for making the day possible: The Jack Petchey Grant-Giver (which funded most of the event): Hayley Goodwin The Think-Tank: The Mental Health Champions for their Wellbeing Day ideas all those months ago The Organising Committee: Hayley Goodwin, Isobel Morland, Jackie Nolan, Jhenni Izquierdo, Melissa Dunn, Sinéad Bevan The Production Team:
Andrea Palocs & Hayley Goodwin for the cupcake station Winnie Williams & Fiona Woodworth for the drumming station Derek Paravicini & Adam Ockleford & Colleen Grove & Leonie Masterson for the piano performance Jackie Nolan, Jodie Collins & Elizabeth Wightman-Potter for the art project station The Residential Team for their muscle
Dear Families, I would like to thank everyone for the support and collaborative working that have shown me throughout my time at Linden Lodge. The pupils in the Secondary Classes would not have been able to make such fantastic progress without this level of commitment from you. This, coupled with the fantastic practice in the classes has seen our pupils, in spite of a what has been a difficult year for most and an incredibly hard time for others, settle into their routines and make holistic progress. It has been so wonderful to see them enjoying their learning each day. The sense or community has gone from strength to strength and I know that all the hard and good work that everyone has put in will continue into the future. The high pedagogy and expert knowledge across a range of disciplines in the school, coupled with everyone's dedication to holding the life chances and opportunities for our pupils in the highest regard makes this a truly special place to have worked. I will always look back on my time here with fond memories. I have learnt so many things in working with your wonderful children and young people and know that my practice has been irrevocably changed for the better. I wish you all a wonderful summer break and every success for the future. Best wishes, Paul Pearce, Deputy Head
The Therapy Team would like to share their Multi Disciplinary Therapy (MDT) plan for September The following will be targeted over the month of September by the Physio, OT and SALT teams.
