Slough Learning Disabilities Partnership Board Annual Stakeholder Event
Tuesday, January 26th 2010
A group of P16 students attended the Slough Learning Disabilities Partnership Board Annual Stakeholder Event. The students took part in workshops on transition and valuing people. The students were invited to play drums with a group of musicians. They also performed 3 dances on stage in front of many people from the local area. It was great to be on a big stage again!! Two of the choreographies were created by Shafiat Hussein from P16. They were fantastic!!! Jamie Rose won the Logo... Read More
The Slough Learning Disability Partnership Board Logo Competition
Tuesday, January 26th 2010
A group of Post 16 students were entered in the Slough Learning Disability Partnership board Logo Competition. Read More
School Opened
Wednesday, January 13th 2010
Arbour Vale School is opened today 14th January 2010 however Arbour Vale House will remain closed for this week. Please keep checking this website and Slough Borough Councils website for any further closures whilst the weather is unpredictable. Read More
My Hunchback
Thursday, December 17th 2009
Hello my name is Daniel Hart. In art I made Quasimodo. Read More
ARTS Autumn Newsletter 2009
Wednesday, December 16th 2009
You can view the newsletter by clicking on the PDF symbol to the right of this page... Read More
Sports College Newsletter - Autumn 2009
Wednesday, December 16th 2009
It has been a busy term with various events and activities for different pupils to be involved in. Read More
Father Christmas visits Primary at Arbour Vale
Tuesday, December 15th 2009
Father Christmas made a visit to Arbour Vale Schools Primary Department and we went to meet him. We were so excited and he gave us a present. Read More
Christmas 2009
Thursday, December 10th 2009
We worked very hard this year on our christmas concert. This year our theme was Musicals. Post16 created Grease. We enjoyed it very much and so did the audience. Have a look at our photos and Secondary performances, can you tell which musicals were performed Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year from all in Post16 Read More
Christmas Concert 2009
Thursday, December 10th 2009
This year for our Christmas Concert we choose to do Musical Themes. Our parents came to see us and the Mayor of Slough. We had a great time and worked very hard We wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Read More
Primary Concert 2009
Wednesday, December 9th 2009
Merry Christmas everyone Today the Mayor of Slough and our mums and dads came to see our performance of Pinnochio Everyone had a great time Read More
Pinnochio
Wednesday, December 9th 2009
Arbour Vale Pinnochio was our theme this year. Mums and Dads came to watch us. The Mayor of Slough came too. It was great fun Merry Christmas everyone Read More
Primary Christmas Concert
Wednesday, December 9th 2009
This year for our Christmas concert we did Arbour Vales version of Pinnochio. Our parents came to watch and the Mayor of Slough came to. We dressed up in costumes and all went on stage. It was great fun. Merry Christmas Read More
Children In Need
Friday, November 20th 2009
We dressed up and decorated cakes for children in need. Read More
Children in Need
Friday, November 20th 2009
Children in Need Day on Friday 20th November'09 Read More
Boccia
Thursday, November 19th 2009
On Thursday 19th November 2009 Arbour Vale School hosted the Berkshire Special schools annual Boccia tournament. The day was attended by Arbour Vale School, Holyport Manor School and Brookfields School. The event gave an opportunity for some of the new sports leaders at Arbour Vale to practice their leadership skills. We had six young leaders who organised, set up and ran the competition throughout the day. The tournament was split into two categories, the amber league and the red league. These... Read More
Enterprise - Allotment success
Thursday, October 29th 2009
In 2008 Post16 students embarked on a project to grow crops and flowers at an allotment in Stoke Road, Slough. The allotment needed alot of hard work and the students had a big task ahead of them. Please read our diaries and see our success so far. We are very proud of our achievement. Read More
Keystage3 How it works
Tuesday, October 20th 2009
KS3 How Does it Work Our Topic this term for KS3 How Does it Work? has been The Olympics. For the Science element of this, KS3 students have been investigating air resistance, friction and forces in Olympic sports. In the photos KS3 students are making and testing their own javelins in order to decide what features make them fly furthest. Read More
Diawli Assembly
Monday, October 19th 2009
Staff worked through all the subjects in order to cover the Diwali festival, during the festival time we were working on these activities e.g. true meaning of Diwali, Indian music, dance and costumes. We also looked at different traditional Indian food during this festival time. Children also learnt daily communication skills which were in Hindi, Urdu, and Panjabi. In music we created a special multicultural song and the (wording were like this “123 it’s good... Read More
Harvest Festival Assembly
Monday, October 12th 2009
In the assembly we did activities which will help all the pupils to understand the harvest culture around the world. They did traditional food games which people usually have during harvest time, tasting a variety of food from around the world. Also they did music, special African harvest dance, watching special power point (Harvest around the world) to understand where some of the food comes from. They watched a special charity video for the children to understand the... Read More
Jeans 4 Genes Day
Friday, October 2nd 2009
Jeans for Genes is the national children's charity that holds Jeans for Genes Day. Wear your jeans, make a donation and help children with genetic disorders. Each Year Arbour Vale School participate in Jeans for Genes day, staff wear jeans and pupils wear there own clothes and everyone donates to the cause. Secondary classes were busy working on creative projects for Jeans for Genes Day. Cedar class created their own poem, which can be read as a rap: “Jeans for Genes... Read More
Ramadam/Eid Assembly
Monday, September 28th 2009
During Ramadan time we worked on Islamic traditions, culture, language, music, dance, costumes, importance of Ramadan and Eid. Special Islamic food. Importance of charity during Ramadan time. During assembly we did lots of fun food games, Islamic art activities. We made some money during ramadam £35.00 and sent it to African Orphan Children. Read More
Arbour Vale attend Youth Sport Trust Young Ambassadors Conference
Tuesday, September 15th 2009
Three of our Students (Danny Morten, Naeem Ahmed and Brandon Sweeney) have been appointed as Youth Sport Trust Young Ambassadors for the Wexham School Sports Partnership. This is an excellent opportunity for our students to be one of only 5000 Young Ambassadors nationwide. Their key roles will be to promote the London 2012 Olympics and the Olympic values to their fellow students at Arbour Vale and also in our feeder primary schools. As our top sports leaders they will also assist staff... Read More
Our Classroom
Monday, September 7th 2009
Our Classroom
Monday, September 7th 2009
Our Classroom
Monday, September 7th 2009
Our Classroom
Monday, September 7th 2009
Our Classroom
Monday, September 7th 2009
Our Classroom
Monday, September 7th 2009
Our Classroom
Monday, September 7th 2009