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School Lunches ~ Week: 6-10 June 2011

Ratatouille
Lamb and Rosemary Burgers
Cucumber and Mint Salad
Grilled Baby Corn


Beet and Orange Salad
Roast Tarragon Chicken
New Potatoes
Spring Greens


Spinach Salad
Brown Rice Pasta/Beef and Tomato Sauce
Carrots
Celery


Grilled Halibut
Grapefruit and Avocado Salsa
French Beans
Roast Sweet Potato Wedges



Mild Chicken Curry
Coconut Rice
Steamed Broccoli
Boiled Eggs

The Hall

Sunday Afternoon, Parent Open House

Earlier that same day....

And during the previous week...

PAUL

Parents pitched in...

Deja Vu..

Last week when we began moving furnishings to The Hall, I was reminded of an event eight years ago. On Jessica's first day at Chelsea Group, she took apart an ailing photocopier. I walked into her room and was shocked to find the machine laid out in pieces on her classroom floor.

 It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. 

La Famiglia 

Teachers painted every night after work and 

at 7:00 we ordered dinner.

Many pizzas were consumed. 

Goodbye Gate House, Hello Hall

The rumours are true. 
Chelsea Group has found a new and, soon-to-be, splendid home complete with the disabled access lacking in our current building.


Through a fateful accidental encounter with a Vicar on Waynflete Street we found a large old church hall which belongs to St Andrews on Garratt Lane. 

This is what we found.

The first actions were to clear and paint. Paul donned a beekeeper's suit and climbed up a high scaffold to spray paint the vast barrel ceiling. Soon after, the recycled (budget!) mezzanine pieces were delivered and assembled as if taken from one of the children's toy boxes. 

On the Mezzanine will be the Library and beneath an occupational therapy room and three classrooms. There are additional rooms, plus a kitchen, which are being redecorated. We are increasing the square footage of teaching space by almost 100%. 

This room will be the school office. 

Before painting it was a moody dark blue. 

The Walls grow impressively everyday. 

            The Team. The Best. 

 The Library Walls


If we don't paint the walls we can call the library The Igloo.

Our goal is to move the end of February. 

More soon......

Happy New Year

Courage

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow". 


Mary Anne Radmacher

Goodbye to a Great Man, Stanley Greenspan

Stanley Greenspan died April 27, 2010. He was a clinical professor of Psychiatry, Behavioral Science, and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School and a practicing child psychiatrist. He was best known for developing the influential Floortime approach for treating children with autistic spectrum disorders.

He was Chairman of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders and also a Supervising Child Psychoanalyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. 

A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Medical School, Dr. Greenspan was the founding president of Zero to Three Foundation: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families and former director of the National Institute of Mental Health's Clinical Infant Developmental Program and Mental Health Study Center.

Jessica and our former and beloved OT, Liana, attended courses at the ICDL in Maryland. We use many of the assessment tools from the institute and the work of Dr Greenspan and his colleagues is represented in well thumbed textbooks in our reference library. 

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