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World Book Day 2025!
Serenity School Crawley had a fantastic time celebrating World Book Day with a range of fun and engaging activities. Students dressed up as their favourite book characters, showcasing their creativity and love for reading. Throughout the day, we created colourful bookmarks, read a variety of books, and participated in rewarding assemblies to celebrate our achievements. We also took part in both schoolwide and national competitions. As part of our school competition, students brought their favourite book characters to life, creating impressive costumes and celebrating the joy of storytelling.
PRICE Training at Serenity
We are pleased to share that due to our schools growth, 8 staff members were selected to complete the 5 Day PRICE (Protecting Rights In a Caring Environment) training to become trainers.
We are devoted to cultivating a positive atmosphere where both staff and students are treated with respect, appreciation, and encouragement. This training help to equip our teams with the necessary skills to manage behaviour in a caring and efficient way, ensuring the safety and rights of every student.
We are devoted to cultivating a positive atmosphere where both staff and students are treated with respect, appreciation, and encouragement. This training help to equip our teams with the necessary skills to manage behaviour in a caring and efficient way, ensuring the safety and rights of every student.
TEEP Training at Serenity!
Our Teaching and Learning Leads across our schools recently completed an intensive three-day training in the Teacher Effectiveness Enhancement Programme (TEEP), a research-based model that aligns closely with our vision of fostering inclusion, independence, and self-worth for both students and staff. This training led by the remarkable Andy Williams of SSAT UK, marks the first step in our journey to becoming a fully-fledged TEEP school.
The TEEP model is centred on creating inclusive and dynamic learning environments, designed to empower each individual within our school community. Through this training, our leaders explored impactful strategies that will help us nurture self-worth in students and staff, foster a greater sense of independence in learning, and promote a collaborative culture that values every voice.
In the coming months, Serenity Schools will work to embed the TEEP framework across all classrooms. With our senior leaders guiding the way, we are committed to making TEEP a central part of our educational culture, building a school community where inclusion, independence, and self-worth are at the heart of everything we do
The Great Serenity Spelling bee and Debate held at Eltham
Our literacy Focus for Summer 2 includes providing students with a valuable opportunity to improve their literacy, spelling and debating skills. On Tuesday, 18th June 2024 at 10:30am to 1:00pm, The Great Spelling Bee and Debate Competition was held at Serenity School, Eltham. Students showcased their spelling abilities, confidently tackling challenging words, and demonstrated exceptional debating skills, passionately arguing on the topic “Should vaping be banned in Schools?”.
We had 6 representatives from each of the Serenity Schools – Serenity Coulsdon, Crawley and Eltham, mostly from Lower School – Year 7, 8 and 9 students representing the competition.
The competition was opened by the Charmaine Ayisi, Director of SEND and Commissioning/Interim Headteacher at Serenity School Eltham. Also supporting the event was Ebere Emezie, the Chief Operating Officer, SED. Group Ltd, the Head of Upper School Eltham, Vivien Ochiama and Head of Lower School Eltham, Amanda Bridgeman. The atmosphere was buzzing with excitement and encouragement from peers, teachers, and the leadership team.
The competition was opened by the Charmaine Ayisi, Director of SEND and Commissioning/Interim Headteacher at Serenity School Eltham. Also supporting the event was Ebere Emezie, the Chief Operating Officer, SED. Group Ltd, the Head of Upper School Eltham, Vivien Ochiama and Head of Lower School Eltham, Amanda Bridgeman. The atmosphere was buzzing with excitement and encouragement from peers, teachers, and the leadership team.
The event highlighted the importance of literacy, a passion for reading, critical thinking, and public speaking. This celebration served as an inspiring demonstration to the importance of literacy and a fun day out. All students received Spelling Bee medals, and a book prize while the winner Serenity Coulsdon won the trophy, celebrating their dedication and hard work. The awards and book prizes were presented to the winners by Charmaine Ayisi.
School Learning Partnership Day 3rd June 2024
All members of staff at Serenity Schools Group recently came together for an Inservice Training Day (INSET). During this comprehensive session, we had the opportunity to engage in planning and training activities designed to help us reflect, enhance our educational practices, and better support our students.
We also benefited from a session by Trauma Informed Schools UK on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE), equipping us with strategies to support students who have experienced trauma and how to ensure that this does not become a barrier to their learning.
The highlight of the day was hearing from some of our Year 13 pupils who have recently gained admission into university and who shared their experiences of being students at Serenity School. Their insights and personal stories provided valuable perspectives, reinforcing the positive impact of our collective efforts and our commitment to our core values of Inclusion, Independence, and Self-Worth for all members of our school community.
Families visit our new Crawley site
Over the last few weeks we have been welcoming our new pupils and families to look around the new school. It has been lovely to see so many people at the meetings, and to explain how we will be working together to get the best possible outcomes for our pupils.
If your child is starting the school in January, please do contact us to arrange a visit crawleyoffice@serenityschool.org.uk
