JULY NEWSLETTER 2013

YEAR 11 LEAVERS—GOODBYE & GOOD LUCK This year we are saying goodbye to 6 pupils who are all going on to further education

at Sir Tom Finney Community High School, Mayfield Special School, The Loyne

School & West Lancashire Community High School. During her time at Hillside,

Lizzie has become more confident and her self-esteem is much improved. In her

final year, Lizzie has been on a residential visit to Whitehough & did her work ex-

perience, gardening at Self Unlimited in Samlesbury. Sana has been a school milk

monitor for the last two years and she has enjoyed working in the school office.

During her work experience placement at Booths supermarket in Longridge, Sana

replenished stock on the shop floor. Chris has been helping at the Old Station Cafe

in Longridge for his work experience, Edward was working on the shop floor in Sains-

burys and Joey has been helping our cook in the school kitchen, helping to prepare

food for the pupil & staff meals. Edward has been at Hillside since 2005 and for his

work placement he went to Ribble Farm Fare to help prepare vegetables for delivery.

Edward, Chris & Edward all went on a residential trip to London in year 10 and Ed-

ward and Chris have recently been to York. Both Sana and Lizzie have achieved the

Asdan Transition Challenge Award while Joey will leave school with the Bronze AS-

DAN Award. Chris, Edward & Edward will all leave with the Silver ASDAN Award.

When asked what they have liked about Hillside, heres what they said: “Hillside is a good school, I

have enjoyed drawing and books”; “I like Beacon Fell Mister Softee wafer cone”; “Hillside’s been my best time and

its good here” and “I have enjoyed science most at Hillside”

We will miss them all but we wish them good luck in their new schools and for the future.

SCHOOL FAIR—Sunday 7th July, we raised a brilliant £1352.

Thank you for your support.

Edward

Edward

Sana

Lizzie

Chris Joey

Many thanks to Rock

FM, cash for kids who

kindly donated tickets

for ‘The Wizard of Oz’

and toys for the

Summer Fair.

They have also agreed

to support us while we

raise money for a new

minibus.

FAMILY DISCO—held at Hillside on

Saturday 29th June. Over £70 raised!

DIARY DATES

WEDNESDAY 24TH JULY—SCHOOL

CLOSES FOR SUMMER (3.10pm)

05 & 06.09.13—INSET DAYS

MONDAY 9th SEPTEMBER—SCHOOL

RE-OPENS FOR PUPILS

12.10.13 (Saturday) —Table Top Sale

28.10—01.11.13—Half Term holiday

SPORTS

DAY—5th July

We would like to thank Tony & Dawn Mitchell for

all their work in producing a Christmas Charity

Song with all profits going to Hillside & Autism Aware-

ness. Their son Danny attends school and Tony is a

singer/songwriter & producer from Fleetwood who has

written a “real” Christmas anthem. Other local musi-

cians have contributed to produce “Christmas Time”.

A demo can be found at;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUk-13jGjsU

and the Christmas single information can be found at; www.xgypsy.com/xmas.htm

DRESS UP & DANCE DAY—in aid of Macmillan Cancer Sup-

port. Held on Friday 21st June we raised a fantastic £120.50

by coming to school in our favourite dancing outfits.

INDOOR TABLE TOP SALE

To be held at school on the morning of Saturday, 12th October

A chance to turn unwanted items or a hobby into cash!

Tables - £6 each If you would like a table please call Liz on 01772 782205

Book a space early to guarantee a spot

York Trips—June and July More

activities...

PLEASE LOOK OUT FOR OUR

NEW WEBSITE

WHICH WILL BE LAUNCHED IN

SEPTEMBER

And finally............ It has been a very successful year and I am proud to have

worked with a fantastic student and staff community who have worked ex-

tremely hard to achieve their targets, We had a successful OFSTED Inspection this

year, it seems such a long time ago. We do still check Parent View for your views, but

there are no new reviews since our Inspection. The link is on the school website.

We are having a lot of building works, new carpets, painting etc over the holidays. We

will be having everything crossed that it is all finished by the time we all return in

September.

I hope you all have a great holiday and we will see you all in September.

Warm regards,

Alison Foster, Headteacher

STAFF NEWS - At the end of this term we say goodbye to the following staff

members, we wish all the best with their future endeavours.

Lisa Walker (Deputy Headteacher), Debbie

Cartwright (Welfare); Kathryn Shaw (TA) &

Keily Dowridge (TA)

Paul Davidson (Teacher); Steph Gornall

(Outreach); Juliet Davey (TA) &

Jemma Coulton (TA)

All the best to Chantelle Waite (teacher) who will be going on maternity leave shortly

and welcome back to Anne Davies (TA) on her return from maternity leave. Congratula-

tions to Matt Balson (teacher) and his fiancée, Alison & Laura Hoyland (teacher) and

her fiancé, James on their forthcoming weddings in the Summer & to Georgia Stocks

(TA) who had a baby girl last month.

We say hello to the following new staff members from September:

Helen Willett (Deputy Headteacher); Neil Gregson (teacher); Rachel Fogg (teacher);

we are also in the process of recruiting 3 new TA3’s and a new welfare.

School re-opens on Monday 9th September for all pupils

There will be another Bag2school collection of unwanted clothing/shoes/soft toys on September 25th.

We have joined with Preston North End FC over the forthcoming

year to provide pupils with 100% attendance FREE tickets to a

Preston North End home game.

2 tickets per pupil will be allocated on a termly basis (1 adult & 1 child) and

a certificate at the end of the year to those with full attendance.

Reminder: Every time you shop online, please visit TheGiving-Machine (www.thegivingmachine.co.uk) before visiting the retailer via their site and school

will receive a percentage of your total shop.