Blog Author: Miss Carter

On Monday we looked at Chinese New Year in 10R! We had lots of fun learning about the story of the Jade Emperor and the animals that make up the Chinese zodiac, and we found that in our class we had a mixture of rats and pigs in our class due to the 07/08 birth years. We all had a try of a fortune…

It’s Christmas time in 10R and we’ve had a very busy week! This week we’ve been doing lots of different Christmas crafts, including making our own snowman out of pom-poms and making different ornaments for our Christmas trees. We also had our secondary Christmas spectacular that we have been doing…

Today in 10R we were looking at how to stay safe online by keeping ourselves anonymous when we are on the internet. Yesterday we learnt what it meant to copy, modify and alter photos online and how this can affect us, especially when it is done to our photos without our consent. We learnt never to…

Today, 10R had their first Sharing our Learning session! We had the parents come in and we talked all about our trip to Calvert Trust last week. We looked at pictures and explained what we did on each day and about every activity. Everyone said what their favourite activity of the week was and…

10R had a wonderful day at Haydock Races today; but don't worry, there was no gambling involved. 

This was a first for all of our learners, as none of them had ever been to the races before, with not many of them ever seeing a race at all, even on TV. We started our day meeting Toby, an…

Barf group had a very busy first day at Calvert!

We started the morning off with a big cooked breakfast before heading off in the mini van to see some lovely views from the top of a mountain! We then wen5into the forest and learnt some bush craft; we learnt how to light a fire and toasted some…

10R have had a jam packed friendship week this week!

On Monday we went swimming, where we all supported each other and, at the end of the lesson, had a bit of fun swim time where we got to play a splash each other. On Tuesday we started our new topic in maths of time and in the afternoon we…

10R have a had a busy last week before half-term! We had our food tech lesson on Monday where we learnt to make savoury rice and in our PE lesson on Wednesday we continued our netball lessons and played a big game with the whole class. On Thursday we celebrated Give Racism the Red Card and we…

10R have had a busy week this week!

On Monday we had our food technology lesson where we made frittatas, something that was new to our learners, and we used our personal safety knowledge when using the utensils and the oven. We also had our weekly session at Chorley leisure centre where we are…

10R have been busy this week making fairy cakes for the Macmillan Coffee Morning today! Everyone worked together to make the cakes and decorate them to help raise some money for a wonderful charity and to have a chance to enjoy all of the brilliant baking that's been done across the school this…

Welcome back 10R! And what a brilliant first weeks it's been! This week we've been getting to know each other and easing back into the routine after the summer holidays. We've talked about all the exciting things we did over the summer and what we were looking forward to now we're back in school…

9R had a wonderful time at their end of year party today! We had a lovely buffet of crisps and cakes that the learners purchased themselves at ASDA and followed it up with some dancing and some party games like musical statues and musical chairs. After a little boogie we headed outside for some…