Community

Community :

Support Training, Advice and Resources (STAR) :

Maple Ridge is one of a number of Hampshire Schools accredited by the Local Education Authorities (LEA) to provide 'Outreach' service to mainstream schools and has developed a new service called STAR (Support Training, Advice and Resources). This includes providing advice to mainstream schools in relation to the inclusion of individual pupils with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD), visits by other schools to Maple Ridge to observe good practice and a team from Maple Ridge delivering training to other schools. This training includes a problem solving group that meets monthly and a half termly training day delivered at Maple Ridge to include observation of practice.

We also offer outreach for mainstream pre-schools and Nurseries to support children with social communication or interaction difficulties. We will shortly be setting up a parent/child support group for these pre-school children in collaboration with the Basingstoke Portage Service.

The school offers a home school service.This is to support parents/carers and families of youngsters who have complex learning difficulties and behaviours that can be difficult to manage. It aims to involve everyone who works with the young person, wherever they may be : at home, in school or any other setting.

School Home Integrated Project (SHIP)

Maple Ridge has been involved in the project for a number of years and employs a home school coordinator and 2 home school workers, (see team page).

This project aims to support parents/carers and families of children who have complex learning difficulties and behaviours that can be difficult to manage. It aims to involve everyone who works with a young person wherever they may be:-

at home
in school
in any other setting, (e.g. respite care)

Parenting Courses :

Special Children Special Parents course

The school runs various parenting courses, one of these is the Special Children Special Parents course.

This is a 10 week course for parents of children with learning disabilities. Please contact us at Maple Ridge School for details

EarlyBird

The is an National Autistic Society 12 week course for parents of preschool children with a diagnosis of ASD.

BAG's (Basingstoke Autistic Group)

‘BAG's’ is a support group for parents of any child on the autistic spectrum.

They meet on the first Wednesday of each Month, venue can vary

for more information please contact Erika on 01256 332795, email bagsinstoke@live.co.uk. (please note spelling is bags in stoke not basingstoke for email).

Fun House

On the second Saturday of the month from 2-4pm the Fun House which is an indoor soft play centre, holds a session for children with special educational needs and their families.

For further information contact

Tel:01256 471066

Whitney Rd, Basingstoke, RG24 8NS

Aiming High/Play Schemes :

Maple Ridge hosts playschemes during the holidays and a Saturday club,
these are run by Basingstoke Play Council

For further information contact Basingstoke Play Limited on 01256 844847.

Dates and invites for the 4 days in the Easter Holidays will be issued by the Basingstoke Play Council.

Residentials :

Our Year 5 children spend a few days in the Summer term at The Privett Centre, (see gallery for photos).

The Privett Centre Trust is a registered charity (Charity Number: 1020769) , mainly representing schools and colleges in the Basingstoke area.

Address: Church Lane, Privett, Alton, Hampshire GU34 3PE
Website: www.privettcentre.org.uk
Situated between in the Meon Valley between Alton and Petersfield the Privett Outdoor Centre offers us one or two night self-catering residential opportunities for small groups of our young people and their leaders. Privett sleeps 18 in small bedrooms plus two single staff bedrooms. It is a former primary school which is now a listed building owned by Hampshire County Council. The Centre is situated in an ideal position for outdoor education work, whether of a field studies nature or for personal and social development. We aim to develop independance and social skills during trips such as these.

Our Year 6 children spend a week in the Spring term at Fairthorne Manor, (see gallery for photos)

Fairthorne is run by the YMCA charity (Charity Number: 1090981 Company Number: 4336719)

Website: Virtual Tour of Faithorne

Fairthorne Manor is an area of parkland and woodlands in Hampshire, England, near the village of Botley. It has an area of 111 acres, including a golf course. Fairthorne Manor is primarily a children's outdoors activity centre, and offers a variety of activities including kayaking, canoeing, sailing, abseiling, climbing, archery, aerial runway and raft-building. By far the main income of Fairthorne comes from the summer camps, when thousands of children come in from the surrounding area to talk part in the activities on offer. The children coming to Summer Camp are split into 4 main age-groups - Holiday Club (5 to 8 year olds), Activity Club (8-12 year olds, Adventure Club (12-14 year olds) and the self-explanatory Club 14-16. Fairthorne also provides a nursery for the under 5s. In 2004 a new structure was introduced into the Fairthorne grounds, a 30-foot tall tower with an abseiling ramp (adapted for use by wheelchairs), a climbing wall and a low ropes course. The manor itself is the administration hub of the site.

Sport :

We have various coaches for football, cricket and rugby coming to our school.

We take part in cricket, rugby and tennis festivals.

On Saturday mornings there is a football club for children who go to Maple Ridge school.

Football Training for the Autumn & Winter Training is indoors

For

Saturday 1st November 11:30am-12:30pm

then from

Saturday 8th November 10.30am-11.30am

at :

Everest Community College
Oxford Way
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG24 9LP
Tel: 01256 465547

For more information or directions please contact :

Andrew Yule (07949 374494)

Nick Lloyd (07840 483845) parents of children at Maple Ridge.

Swimming Pool :

We use the Maple Ridge School Swimming Pool (Pictured) in term time when the air temperature is warm enough.
The pool is hired out to another local schools during the holidays.
See Gallery for more photos

Music :

Maple Ridge take advantage of the "Listen to Me" project from Hampshire Music Service, where children in team 2 and 3 have the opportunity to learn an instrument, currently keyboards and Junk percussion.
Maple Ridge School join together with other special schools in Hampshire for 2 special musical events each year. At Christmas our year 6’s go to Winchester Cathedral for the Special Christmas Celebration. In the spring term we meet at Ferneham Hall in Fareham to perform and sing songs from a specially written musical. The 2010 musical is called “Sing-a-Song-a Saurus"and is about dinosaurs.The 2009 musical "The Big Green One" involved the characters of a Green Giant and a Wastey Bug, other musicals have included,"Marvelous Me" “Bugtastic”, “Moving On” and “Waterquest”.

Maple Ridge also offer other schools the opportunity to come and see the “soundbeam” instrument in action at Maple Ridge.

For more details visit Hampshire Music Services web site

Horse Riding :

Some of our children go horse riding once a week to the Baughurst RDA Group. (Riding for the Disabled Association)
The Baughurst RDA Group Charity number is : 1073644.

Gallery for more photos

Early Years Cluster Group :

Maple Ridge is part of the local Early Years Cluster Group which meets termly for training, advice and help.

It delivers workshops and visits settings to help and advise on request.

South View Infants School :

We have good links with South view Infants School.

We also share some training and support and help each other.

How Can YOU Help ? ...

Raising Funds :

The Friends of Maple Ridge put on various school events to raise money for the school.

At the moment they are raising money for extra resources for our outdoor environment

To contact the chairperson please email - wendyholding@tiscali.co.uk

to contact the treasurer please email - cazlloyd@fsmail.net

If you shop on line please shop through this site and Maple Rridge will get paid money from the retailer at no extra expense to you, it’s a win/win money making adventure. www.buy.at/mapleridge please give it a go!

The School collects Tesco and Sainsbury vouchers so Please help us by collecting them when ever you can and bring them into the school.

If you have any old computer printer cartridges they would gratefully received. We can make savings on new computer printer cartridges for the school if we give in old printer cartridges, regardless of which printer they are from.

I would like to extend a huge thank-you to Andy Pitcairn-Hill for being the driving force and expertise in creating this web site.

He gave hours of time, buckets of enthusiasm and was very patient in helping us to understand the complexities of creating such a great web site. Thank-you!!!!!!

If you have some special skill you could offer us do please let us know!

How can I be more involved as a parent ? :

We hope that all parents of children at Maple Ridge will become involved in the life and work of the school.
This can happen by accompanying classes on school trips or being involved with the Friends of Maple Ridge see Events Dairy.
Many parents are regular visitors to the school and we regard all parents as co-workers with the school staff in the education of their children.
We hope you will talk to your child positively about school, take an interest in the homework and regularly read with and to your child.

Further Information

'Every Parent Matters'
Alan Johnson, Secretary of State for Education has published Every Parent Matters which sets out the vital role of parents in improving their child’s life chances and educational attainment and how the Government can best help them achieve this.

www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consum_dg/groups/dg_digitalassets/@dg/@en/documents/digitalasset/dg_066890.pdf

www.teachernet.gov.uk/wholeschool/familyandcommunity/workingwithparents/everyparentmatters/

School Travel Plan :

As part of being a healthy school we have written a travel plan, the aims of the travel plan are to

Promote travel that is physically active and has a less polluting effect on the environment

To increase the time and quality of education about greener travel

To try and ensure that parents, pupils and drivers feel positive about transport to and from school

for a full copy click on Maple Ridge School travel planThe school travel planning team including Maddi Foley have helped enormously in the forming of this plan and are available at