Blog Author: Mrs Banks

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…

Yesterday 11A visited Queens Park, each group was given a map of the park with the markers to find. We looked at the map and used locations around us to help us navigate where in the park we were, we used things like the pond, buildings and structures to help us understand where we were and where…

Before our trip to Bendrigg year 11 have enjoyed a Duke of Edinburgh Carousel morning. 

Our first visitor was Mrs Jones. Mrs Jones demonstrated some basic first aid skills that we might need whilst we are out and about in the countryside. We got to have a practice on things like broken bones,…