Blog Author: Mrs Banks

Todays Picture News was all about the coalition movement to help with the war in the Ukraine.

We looked at photographs of our Prime Minister Keir Starmer meeting with President Zelenskyy and we talked about how all 20 countries are coming together to help with the war and hopefully bring…

This weeks picture News “Girls can have short hair get over it” 

This week we watched a news video about girls being asked to leave a girls football match because they were accused of being boys because they had short hair. They have started a campaign with the slogan “Girls can have short hair…

What a busy, inspirational week. We have had many visitors from various organisations such as Colleges ,Department of work and pensions, Tellent, Bosch and previous pupils who gave us all their knowledge, experience and what an inspirational experience has been.

It has helped us to think about…

What a busy, inspirational week. We have had many visitors from various organisations such as Colleges ,Department of work and pensions, Tellent, Bosch and previous pupils who gave us all their knowledge, experience and what an inspirational experience has been.

It has helped us to think about…

Just wanted to share this wonderful project we have been working on.

Chorley in Bloom asked for the pupils to design some artwork to advertise Chorley to the public.

All pupils have spent so much time choosing which buildings they would like to draw and then we took photos, we brought them…

In picture News today we were discussing climate change, we looked at a news reel where they were interviewing a lady from the government about what climate change means and how we can help.

We looked at what the impact of climate change is on the weather around the world, watching videos and…

As part of our preparation for leaving school and starting college, we were very lucky to be invited to visit St Michael’s high school for the day. We were greeted by Aubrey the head girl and Ewan the head boy who then took us on a tour of their school, they showed us around the classrooms and…

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…