Welcome to the last of my weekly newsletters for 2025!

This week we have celebrated the amazing talents of our children and staff in two Christmas Shows which were have started our Christmas off a treat! Lower school presented ‘T’was the night before Christmas’ with class groups singing, signing , dancing and sparkling.

Upper school sang and musically played there hearts out as we travelled ‘The Dawn House Express’ to a very happy ‘Dawn’s house’.

Such incredible shows, bringing tears to many of the audiences eyes. It never ceases to amaze me how confident our children are, singing solo on stage amongst other things. Staff really do us proud too, with many stepping right out of their comfort zones to support our children. Please have a quick look here…

https://www.dawnhouseschool.org.uk/2025/12/18/wow-what-a-show/

Mr Ellis and Ms Hudson-Scott do need a special mention, as they pulled together two very different, but equally Christmassy, Christmas Shows.

For your information around December/January the following teaching and therapy staff are moving on …

Leanne Morritt

Georgia Mackenzie

Sarah Throup

We wish them all the best and thank them for their time and huge impact at Dawn House.

Over the next few months we are delighted to welcome the following new Teaching staff to Dawn House…

Roshan Annia (January)

Nathan Kilcourse (February)

Faye Mitchell (May)

We look forward to them joining the Dawn House team.

Reminders for parents…

PLEASE do supervise your children’s phone and online use over the holidays- parents will be called in to help resolve any issues that arise and continue when we return to school in January.

PLEASE can ALL parents/carers remember to sign in at reception when you are visiting school. Some 6th form parents have recently not done this and this is a safeguarding risk for our children. 

Many thanks for following our rules.

 Jenny

Wishing you all a Happy Christmas and a calm and safe break. We look forward to seeing your children back at school on Monday 5th January.

Jenny

If your child leaves home in the morning a little unsettled and you want to quickly tell us, so we know to expect a tricky start to the day, a quick email (that we can follow up later) to the tutor and/or core team with ‘Handle with Care’ in the email title will ensure that we are aware.