Blog Author: Mrs Banks

On Tuesday we were very excited to go on a visit to Lancaster Castle which concludes our learning of the Pendle Witch trials.

We were very lucky to have a guided tour of the castle, this included the men’s prison and the women’s prison. We had a look inside some of the cells and the guide…

This week year 11 have been thinking about our mental health. We discussed about what emotions we feel, how we might deal with that in a college setting and what we could do to help ourselves. Who can we talk to, what activities might make us feel better and how important it is to share your…

This week in picture news 11A looked at the wildfires in America, specifically in Los Angeles.

We watched a news reel and some interviews with people who had been evacuated from their homes. We then discussed about what has caused the fires, what help was in place for both the people and the…

Today 11A have been exploring picture news. Today’s story was about Karis Musongole a 10year old girl from Manchester who has been starring in the new film Wicked. We watched a news reel showing interviews with the stars of the film and we discussed can everyone be a star.

We discussed what…

We had a lovely morning sharing our wonderful year so far. We treated our visitors to one of our amazing bacon butties as we watched the video about our Bendrigg visit. We then exchanged gifts for our secret Santa and then performed our Christmas songs. 
“What a nice way to end the…

Well what brilliant Christmas celebrations for year 11, a meal at The Astley pub and party day, great fun had by all!

We have been very fortunate this year to work alongside Parklands High School and Chorley Sports Partnership as part of this relationship we were very grateful to receive a surprise today.

Enclosed inside our Christmas card was a very kind donation of £50 towards our year 11 prom fund!

We…

What a super Christmassy day, we were served our Christmas lunch by Mr Welch and Mrs Ashcroft we enjoyed some Christmas singing and cracker jokes, a traditional Christmas lunch.

After we went to Chorley for our Secret Santa shopping, we all had our secret list of ideas for our friends we had…

Today was an amazing experience, we had been invited along to The Delta Hotel at Broughton to provide a Christmas sing along for the staff Christmas lunch. After lots of rehearsals and practice we were more than ready to give an amazing performance.

We arrived at the hotel and wow we delivered…

Continuing on with our learning about the Pendle witches today we visited Pendle Hill and re created the walk that the women were made to do. We were very lucky with the sun shining although it was cold, and this made us think about the accused ladies walking, probably in bare feet all that…

So today sees the beginning of baking Christmas goods for our Youth Enterprise Tuck Shop.

This is the first experience of making mince pies and what a great job they did, rolling, cutting and filling.

Last night we were invited to an awards evening with Chorley in Bloom to celebrate ours and others amazing contributions to the community volunteer group.

We were honoured to be presented with a Certification of Appreciation for our amazing continual contribution to the group. We also received…