Huge thanks to everyone for working incredible hard and showing extraordinary resilience to get us through the last half-term! Whilst we were hit quite hard by COVID (both children and staff), there continued to be a huge amount of very positive and fun learning going on. 

Massive thanks to the whole DPS team and in particular Mrs Webb, Miss Peers, Miss Forward and Mrs Godwin for navigating the recent choppy waters!

As we return from the half-term break (on Monday 21st February), we intend to stick with the current restrictions on entering and collecting from different gates, keeping groups separate outside, putting volunteers on hold and restricting year groups being close together inside. However, by monitoring COVID numbers carefully and working in line with the government's guidance, we hope to be able to revert to fewer restrictions very soon after.

Thank you for working in partnership with us in so many areas of school life, including our efforts to reduce the impact of the pandemic on our school. It is a big team effort. 

• Occupational therapy parental workshop - I hope those of you who attended found it useful and informative. If you would like the notes from the presentation, then please let me know and I can email them to you.
• Watch out for a Target Autism parental workshop in the summer term.
• Through our partnership we have been informed about Northampton parent forum group who are a registered charity to support families of children with SEND across Northamptonshire. https://www.npfg.co.uk/
• External services - lots of parents have been in contact recently about long waiting lists for the support of external services. Unfortunately, this is an issue nationally and we continue to support children as best we can with the resources we have.

As always if you have any questions or concerns in regard to special educational needs then do please contact me. 

Natalie Parsonson

SENCo@deanshanger.northants.sch.uk