Dear Parents/Carers

Parent Survey Questionnaire

Please look out for the parent survey

questionnaire which will be coming out

immediately after the Half Term.

We do this every year as it is important

for us to know your views about Durants

and the service we provide for you and

your children.

We need to know what things we are

doing well as well as what we are not

doing well, so we can make

improvements. When you receive it,

please take a few minutes to complete it

and return it to the school office.

Parents Evening

Advance notice that Parents Evening will

be on Wednesday 28 June. Invitation

letters will be coming home shortly.

Please book a time to come in to meet

your child’s class team. This will give

you the chance to see the work your

child has done through the year and

discuss their progress.

The Therapy Team will also be available

for you to talk with about any therapy

sessions your child might have.

Best wishes for a lovely Half Term!

Peter De Rosa

Head Teacher

Our new updated Durants School website was launched last week. Karly Barker, our School Business Manager and Costa Vrahimis, our IT Manager worked very hard to get it up and running. Please visit it at www.durants.enfield.sch.uk and let us know what you think of the new site and layout.

Our New Updated School Website

A letter from the Head Teacher

May 2017

Durants News

Inside this issue:

A letter from the Head Teacher

Our New Updated School Website

1

Silver Souper Soup

Just Giving for DEAL

2

‘World Autism Aware-ness Day’ Event

2

Red and Indigo Class Trip

3

Pink Class Trip

School Photography

‘Durants Lip Sync Battle!’

3

DPC Group Fun Day-Saturday 3 June

4

Half Term

School Re-Opens

DPC May/June 2017 Half Term Activities List

4

Durants School

4 Pitfield Way

Enfield

Middlesex

EN3 5BY

Phone: 0208 804 1980

Fax: 0208 804 0976

E-mail:

office4@durants.enfield.sch.uk

Web:

www.durants.enfield.sch.uk

This term Silver Class has been working hard perfecting a variety of extravagant recipes to sell across the school. The seasonal menu has included traditional vegetarian favourites such as leek and potato, winter vegetable, roasted red lentil and fresh tomato and basil soup. All the soups were expertly prepared from scratch by the ‘Souper’ Silver Class pupils and used only fresh ingredients. Unfortunately the ‘Silver Souper Soup’ kitchen is now closed.

The good news is; next term the ‘Silver Select Summer Sandwich Co’ will be making a variety of seasonal sandwiches and salads to sell. Silver Class will continue learning and practicing valuable life skills in addition to money handling and experience entrepre-neurial activities. All the proceeds from ‘Silver Souper Soup’ and ‘Silver Select Summer Sandwich Co’ sales are going to support outings and opportunities to develop positive social skills and experiences.

On behalf of DEAL, we would like to thank everyone who supported our ‘World Autism Awareness Day’ Event which was held on Wednesday 29 March 2017.

Pupils and parents/carers had a lovely day celebrating with lots of fun activities from trampolining, sensory activities, Wii games, to face painting!

We had performances from our singers followed by our grand balloon launch!

We would also like to thank the Parent Council for all the help on the day!

With all your help, DEAL managed to raise an amazing £398.10!

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‘World Autism Awareness Day’ Event

Durants News

Silver Souper Soup

Neil Riches, a friend of Teacher Jamie

Thaxton ran the London Marathon and

supported Durants by raising money for

DEAL.

He raised an amazing £1,681.20!

Well done Neil!

Just Giving for DEAL

On Monday 22 May 2017, Red Class and Indigo Class, along with Stanley from Beige Class, visited ‘Airbus Foundation Discovery Space’ as part of their Science Curriculum.

The center features educational exhibits to promote fun ways to explore Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths.

The pupils took part in the interactive Science show ‘What’s the Matter’ and a Science workshop ‘Slime To Go’, as well as a viewing gallery connecting with ongoing engineering activities associated with the build and test of the European Space Agency’s ExoMars Rover in the Mars Yard.

Pupils and staff had a lovely time and learnt so much about space!

On Thursday 25 May 2017, pupils from Emerald, Bronze, Lilac, Silver and Yellow Classes took part in ‘Durants Lip Sync Battle!’

Pupils enjoyed lip syncing to a range of different songs from Bruno Mars, Ariana Grande, Little Mix to Bob Mar-ley to name a few, in order to battle it out to win the competition!

Lots of fun was had by all five classes!

The school photographs were once again a huge

success this year!

There were lots of lovely smiles and some cheeky

posers!

Durants School would like to say a very big thank

you once again to Michael O'Sullivan for having such

patience with our pupils and for taking time with

each individual pupil to produce such lovely

photographs.

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School Photography ‘Durants Lip Sync Battle!’

Red and Indigo Class Trip

Pink Class Trip

Durants News

On Wednesday 24 May 2017, Pink Class spent the day at ‘Southend Beach’ as part of their Geography Curriculum.

They completed a scavenger hunt of things they can find at the beach. They looked at these things in their Geography lessons and it was exciting to see and collect these things at the beach!

They ended their trip with a ‘Fish and Chips’ lunch and went for a paddle in the sea!

Pink Class would like to thank their class parents/carers and DEAL for making this trip possible!

DPC May/June 2017 Half Term Activities List

DPC Group Fun Day-Saturday 3 June!

Half Term

Half Term break commences on:

Monday 29 May to Friday 2 June 2017

School will finish at the normal time of:

Friday 26 May 2017 at the normal time of

3pm

School Re-Opens

School re-opens for all pupils on:

Monday 5 June 2017 at the normal time of

8.50am

Enjoy the Half Term!