Our Space The universal language of communication through play
Many of our students are new to Our Space and its unique emphasis on non-electrical play. This gives students the opportunity to use their own skills of deduction and logical...
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Many of our students are new to Our Space and its unique emphasis on non-electrical play. This gives students the opportunity to use their own skills of deduction and logical...
Posted by Helen Mateides
The anti-bullying ambassadors were delighted to hand over the money raised during anti-bullying week. Ms Isles received the funds, which will be going towards buying toys for...
Posted by Helen Mateides
Last week was national Anti-bullying Week. One of the many activities that took place was a poster competition. I am very pleased to announce that First Prize was...
Posted by Helen Mateides
The theme this year was ‘Power for Good’ Empowering students to take action against bullying through kindness, empathy and respecting difference, can prevent it...
Posted by Helen Mateides
The Pledges are finally on display in the H corridor, creating a colourful atmosphere thanks to the successful all school anti-bullying pledge initiative. The Ambassadors spent...
Posted by Helen Mateides
Hard to believe that it has been a year since we lost one of our young students. Today friends and staff who knew him best, gathered to pay their respects with a one minute...
Posted by Helen Mateides
George 10M has been playing Roller Hockey for 3 years with ‘The Crusaders’. He is very passionate about the sport and trains every Thursday at the Hatfield leisure centre. ...
Posted by Helen Mateides
I want to take the opportunity to thank all the Anti-bullying Ambassadors and all our regular Our Space users for creating such an inspirational space to forge friendships,...
Posted by Helen Mateides
Since Our Space moved to E6 numbers have been steadily growing. Our regular students have formed some strong friendship groups and have a lot of fun creating their own pastimes....
Posted by Helen Mateides
On Wednesday we had a visit from a member of Herts Young Homeless, Sarah Manzie. The anti-bullying ambassadors were able to hear about some of the amazing life changing work that...
Posted by Helen Mateides
Many of our students are new to Our Space and its unique emphasis on non-electrical play. This gives students the opportunity to use their own skills of deduction and logical thinking, alongside learning the art of social skills.
Communication through play allows our students to use facial expression, foster language development, turn taking and resolving conflicts, all in a supervised, safe environment.
This is even more relevant to students whose English understanding is limited. Both Abdul and Imran joined us a few days ago and have very little English language understanding, yet they have found a way to join the group by playing board games.
Next week Our Space will be hosting Children’s Mental Health Week 9th -15th of February, every lunchtime in G2, with sweets and cakes on sale, for a fundraiser.

On Tuesday 27 January the A Level RS students were taken on a trip to St Pauls Cathedral in London. One student reflected saying: The trip to St Paul’s Cathedral was an amazing...
I would like to once again thank the 310 students who took the time to send in a nomination for their ‘best teacher’ from 2024.25 at the end of the last academic year....