Wishing our Hedgewood community a fantastic summer 🏖 🍦as we finish for another brilliant and slightly strange year 🌈😷. We celebrate all our pupils achievements and we are very proud of what they have achieved and adapted to🌟.

Today we also celebrate our leavers 🌟Our pupils have been on a wonderful journey at Hedgewood and we wish them all the best for September at their new schools. We look forward to your visits in the future as pupils , families and friends of Hedgewood are always welcome ✨🌈🦔 ... See more

Transitions during COVID-19

Clearly, with COVID-19, some children and families will be experiencing a heightened sense of anxiety about the transition back to full time education either back to school or on to their next educational setting. We know that transition is a process and not a single event so our aim is to support our pupils and families as effectively as possible to ensure a smooth, safe and successful transition.

Here are some of the key things we will be doing:-

• Introduce our teachers using photographs or (when possible) video technology.
• Offer question and answer sessions via Seesaw or during our Zoom coffee afternoons.
• Offer pupils a virtual tour of their classroom.
• Identify the transition support each pupil needs
• Signpost parents/carers to transition resources which they can use at home.
• Continue with routine activities
• Ensure pupils involved and included.
• Validate pupil feelings by listening carefully and addressing any anxieties.
• Respond to pupil’s behaviour with empathic curiosity. *
• Set up each class space in a pupil personalised way.
• Ensure that families can keep in touch over the vacation period through dedicated contacts.

We hope this helps

Kind regards

John Goddard

*(Behaviour is a form of communication and can help us to understand how the pupil might be feeling, particularly when the child or young person has not yet developed the vocabulary or language skills to express themselves clearly). ... See more