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• Parents' Forum invitation

  Fri 29 Sep 2017

  Come and join us for our next Parents' forum on Wednesday October 11th in the main hall at 2.45pm.  

  Everyone welcome!

   

  Come and ask questions, meet other parents and find out more about your school.  

   

  The focus of the session will be on how we manage behaviour at Elfrida.  See you there!

  

• Ofsted and CQC inspection of Lewisham SEND

  Tue 26 Sep 2017

  Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) will carry out jointly an inspection in Lewisham from October 2nd-6th 2017.

  Under the Children and Families Act 2014, the government placed new duties on the local health, social and education services that provide for children and young people with special educational needs and/or disabilities.

  The inspection will evaluate how effectively Lewisham:

  * identifies the needs of children and young people who have special educational needs and/or disabilities

  * meets the needs of these children and young people so that their outcomes and chances of participating fully in society improve.

   

  For more information and a link to a webinar that you can join to share your views look at the SEND section of our website or click  here

• Our Gambian visitor

  Mon 11 Sep 2017

  On Monday 11th September we welcomed Mucki and his son Yankuba to Elfrida to talk to us about life in The Gambia.

  We have had a link with Mansa-Colley Bojang school for a while and this is the second time that Mucki has visited.  This time he talked to the children in assembly and then spent some time with Year 5, who will soon be starting to write letters to the children in his school.

  Mucki explained to us that at his school there are no computers and the children have to share one pencil between three children.  We didn't realise just how lucky we are!

  He also talked to us about how the children have to grow their own food for their lunch and how they look after chickens, who lay eggs that the school can sell to raise money.

  Yankuba also had a great time visiting our school and loved playing football in the playground at lunchtime.  He didn't want to leave!

  We are hoping to use the money raised on Wheels Day to get the school a lap top or an ipad so that we can Skype them and continue to learn more about life in another country.