Blog Author: Mrs Powell

Another busy week in 11R. With this week being friendship week, we started off with odd sock day on Monday. The students have spent time this week thinking about this year's friendship week theme "one kind word." We spent time discussing the difference between bullying and banter with staff and…

What a busy week we have had this week. We have had lots of college visits this week both with school and with parents. The students are now getting a really good idea of where they want to go in September. This week, we visited the construction building at Preston College. We learnt how to tile…

This week 11R have been busy with lots of new things including visiting Preston College twice and beginning our new ASDAN module, Environmental awareness. 

We thought about what environments are and how they link to our local community before thinking about how we could improve our school…

After bushcraft and movie night on Thursday evening, all the students and staff felt tired on Friday morning. Nevertheless, our final morning of activities awaited and all were eager to try the archery and the dreaded Leap of Faith!!!

We learnt how to use a bow and arrow and use the targets.…

The power boat was ace!!! - the students got a chance to go really fast up and down the reservoir last night, before making their lunches in readiness for the trek up to the Pike today. The students showed incredible team work to ensure that one of our number that uses a wheelchair was able to…

Fantastic weather once again for our adventures on the lake. We began the day rafting all the way across the lake to Lever Park. We walked through the woods and visited Liverpool Castle. The students had an impromptu game of sardines within the ruined castle; we made hot chocolate over a camping…

We were worried that the weather was going to be wet but the sun shone and the students had a fantastic time, showing their head for heights. It was great to see them putting mind over matter as they scaled the tree climb and held their nerve balancing on the crate stack. After a lovely lunch, we…

What a fantastic first day!! We arrived at the Anderton Centre at 1pm, checked in and most importantly, made up our own beds. It was great to see the students helping each other with this. Next we had a walk around the centre so we have a good idea as to where everything is; we met our visit…

Well that's finally it!! On Thursday we said goodbye to our wonderful 11G leavers.  Parents were invited into school for the graduation assembly. The students arrived prom ready and looked spectacular. Mr Welsh spoke about the achievements and the resilience of all of the leavers and awarded them…

This week has been another busy week for 11G - we have continued with college visits for some students but also taken part in a week long extravaganza of everything sporty!!  We have done lots of activities to get our bodies and our minds working. On Monday we started the week with a class warm up…

Today the class turned red for our Wear Red for Racism day. We had some fantastic activities lined up starting with a great story called 'Part of the Party.' The story is about a group of animals who have not been invited to a disco because they are different. The animals who have been left out…

11G learners both in school and at home had a fantastic World Book Day today, starting with story time. As a class we have been studying animal habitats and at the moment we are looking at Oceans. For World Book Day, we chose the story Commotion in the Ocean by Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz.…