Dear Parents and Carers,
Over the last two weeks, we have welcomed 40 York St John University Initial Teacher Training Students into school for an Enrichment Day. Both days have seen the students spending time in two classes, joining the whole school assembly and listening to a presentation from the Leadership Team about Hob Moor Oaks. As part of the talk, we asked the students to capture their “Golden Moments in the classrooms”. Their feedback included the teacher and staff knowledge of pupils, the breadth of the timetable and use of visual support within lessons, and the range of communication strategies used in the classrooms. They also had the opportunity to see a vast range of different learning activities including phonics, attention autism, maths and communication groups. On Monday, Olivia and Shona went to meet the full cohort of students at York St John University, and they were involved in different lectures around “Communication including Makaton” and “Working With Parents”. We hope that all the students were able to take a wealth of information and knowledge from their visit to our school, and go on to use it within their teaching placements in the future.
