Cherry Oak School
Working Together for Success
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Working Together for Success
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Home learning resources 9/1/2026
Fri 09 Jan 2026Due to the site closure today, please find below a list of websites and activities that you may want to use with your child at home. These are activities that we would be using in the school and so will be familiar for your child:
Attention Autism:
Movement songs:
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes Exercise Song
Calming:
Sensory Massage - A Million Years
Sensory Massage - Circle of Life
Counting and Number Formation:
Five Little Polar Bears:
Ice cold sensory play activity:
Polar Bear sensory story:
Winter dot to dot:
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Home learning resources (5/1/26)
Mon 05 Jan 2026Home Learning Resources
Due to the site closure today, please find below a list of websites and activities that you may want to use with your child at home. These are activities that we would be using in the school and so will be familiar for your child:
Attention Autism:
Attention Autism Stage 1,2 and 3 - Snow Fountain and Jack Frost Freeze
Sensory Circuits:
Lesson: Sensory circuit (Part 1) | EARLY DEVELOPMENT Physical development | Oak National Academy
SENSEable Circuit for Home: Week 2
Sensory story:
Sensory Stories - Wintertime by Rachel, Heather and Aidan, the CIL Team
Winter Clothes:
Makaton Topic - WINTER CLOTHES - Singing Hands - YouTube
Counting Snowmen and Matching Numbers
Make a Paper Snowflake
Cold Sensory Play
Snow and Ice Recipe
Winter Pencil Control
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Federated Newsletter (Winter Edition)
Wed 17 Dec 2025Federated Newsletter (Winter Edition)
Please tap on the link below to view:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JnuOdFwTfMHKMfq7vCWqq4tqeJJ2x3QK/view?usp=sharing
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TRAINING DAY- 10.11.2025
Mon 03 Nov 2025School will be closed to pupils on 10th November 2025 for a teacher training day.
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TIAAS Bronze Award
Wed 16 Jul 2025We are very pleased to announce that Cherry Oak School has been awarded a bronze award in recognition of the trauma informed and attachment aware work that has been happening in school. This has been awarded by the Birmingham Educational Psychology Service in partnership with Birmingham Virtual School.
A message from Heather Webb Jones, Educational Psychologist provides more information:
To all the staff at Cherry Oak,
We would like to offer huge congratulations on achieving Bronze Certification in recognition of the fantastic trauma informed and attachment aware work which has been happening at Cherry Oak! It has been an absolute pleasure to work with you in beginning this journey and to see the creative and innovative ways in which school are already adapting, tailoring and implementing TIAAS strategies in practice to meet the needs of the complex and diverse children you support.
In particular the TIAAS Regulation Backpacks, the adapted Zones of Regulation resources and strategies which are personalised and I observe to be in constant use with pupils in a really effective way, your daily sensory circuits and the Cherry Oak Sensory Curriculum developed for pupils, personalised self-regulation trays containing pupils’ regulating tools and strategies in classrooms, and the many calm spaces developed throughout school. At a more strategic level, the focus and commitment to creating calm and low arousal classrooms and transitions for those pupils that need this, embedding of TIAA practices across school policies and documentation from the school development plan, pupil regulation plans, the way in which behaviour is described, logged, and analysed to staff performance management documents and developing induction processes, is to be highly commended as examples of good practice for other schools.
I know that your next foci for your TIAAS Development Plan are on parental engagement and pupil voice, and I look forward to continuing to work with your TIAAS working group next term and would encourage you strongly to work towards achieving Silver level as you already have many of these elements in place (Certification Toolkit attached).
I look forward very much to continuing this journey next term, and to begin working towards Silver. I would also like to encourage you to continue to develop the video resources of pupils using your fantastic resources which has already been started and our TIAAS team are keen to support you with putting the videos together/editing etc. so that you can share them on your school website should you wish.
Warmest regards to you all, hope you have a lovely Summer holiday.
Heather and the TIAAS Team.
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School Summer Holiday Social Story
Wed 02 Jul 2025Dear parents and carers,
please see the social story developed to support your child's understanding of the upcoming holidays.
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Bank Holiday Social Story for pupils dropped off and collected by family
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Bank Holiday Social Story for pupils that are collected by transport
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Spring Holiday Social Story
Fri 11 Apr 2025Hello all,
please see the attached social story to support your child's understanding of the break from school.
Have a good two weeks everyone.
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Federated Spring Newsletter 2025
Thu 10 Apr 2025Dear families,
Please find below a link to the latest federated Spring Newsletter 2025. It showcases all of the fantastic things happening across the schools and college.
Click here to read the newsletter
We wish you all a very enjoyable Easter break.
Many thanks
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