Blog Author: Mrs Lea

This week 7A walked over to Chorley Asda and practised their functional maths  and social skills by choosing and ordering items from the Cafe.

Each student used their own money to choose five items for one pound which was part of a deal that Asda are offering at the moment.  The students chose…

Last Friday the students from 7A had a really enjoyable cookery lesson making cakes and pizzas.

First of all we talked about the importance of hygiene before putting aprons on and washing our hands. We then looked at the ingredients and talked about how we could follow the written instructions…

It was a great, fun filled first week for the students and staff of 7A alike. 

Old friendships were rekindled after the long six week break and new friendships were made whilst the students had so much fun learning whilst joining in with lots of different activities including accessing our…

What a wonderfully time 9R have had this week…

Yesterday we travelled on the mini bus to The Fylde rugby club to take part in a Tag Rugby inter schools competition alongside nine other schools.

What a fabulous fun and very active time we had, the pupils played so well and it was heartwarming…

As part of Personal, Social Development and Life Skills, 9R spent a lesson learning about First Aid and in particular how to place a casualty in the correct recovery position.

Mrs Lea showed the class her First Aid uniform that she wears when doing voluntary work outside of school and then she…

In order to celebrate International Epilepsy Day 9R decided to take part in the 50 million steps challenge by walking around the track on our school field ten times which added up to one full mile. 
 

We all managed to complete the challenge and we all enjoyed the exercise in the fresh air…

This half term 9R have done lots of interesting work looking at the theme of Our World and other cultures.

In particular we have been learning more about the devastation surrounding deforestation and the impact that it is having on animals and other wildlife. We also learnt about palm oil and…

9R had a brilliant  Christmas party day with lots of music, dancing, videos and party games not to mention the yummy food that was provided.

We began by watching  part of the first Harry Potter video with the lights off and the Christmas tree twinkling in the darkness. Popcorn and chocolates…

What a fun and busy week 9R have had during the week, researching facts of interest about the festival of light which is celebrated by Hindus world wide , creating and building bridges and also some pupils got the opportunity to sew beautiful craft squares with a renowned artist, Victoria…

At the start of last week we were told that all the classes would be having a pumpkin competition which caused great excitement amongst the pupils and staff of 9R.

We went outside to choose our very own, extremely large pumpkin, from our Astley Park pumpkin patch and then we spent time…

Last week was a very arty week in 9R as we looked at the seasons and in particular Autumn and all of the beautiful Autumnal colours that we are beginning to see on the trees and bushes around school. 
 

We made some really lovely stained glass backgrounds using coloured paper of various hues…

9R have had a busy and enjoyable first week back after the long summer holiday. It has been lovely to see them catching up with their friends and myself, Ms Lea, and their class teacher, Mr Smith, have spent lots of time getting to know the students through activities,  online games  and fun…