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What a week we had at Calvert Trust!

When we arrived at Calvert, had put our suitcases in our rooms and unpacked a bit we went and found out about our groups for the week. We were part of the Barf group which was lead by Miss Hendy, Miss Beck and Mrs Worthington. Our group leader was called…

9G had a lovely end of half term treat at ‘The Astley’ today. They did some fantastic colouring and word search's whilst we all waited for our food. We then had our delicious meals. We got to choose from mash or chips and had either pizza, sausages or chicken nuggets with vegetables and had juice.…

Year 7 and Year 10 visited Calvert trust last week for a 5 day stay. We took part in activities that developed confidence and team building skills and...what a fantastic week we all had!!!

Please have a look at the photos to see some of the amazing activities that your students took part…

8G took part in their first History themed day on Thursday, and what a fun day it was!

We put our fine motor skills to practice by covering our initials with mosaic stickers.

We used Lego to recreate the city of Pompeii that Mrs England had read us a story about on Tuesday.

We made our…

Yesterday was our first history day of the year and we got to learn all about the Victorians.

Oak class got busy finding out that; 

• A lot of victorian people were poor.
• Children would work in the factories.
• Some Victorian people were very clever and invented things that we still…

This week we have been learning about mental health. We have been very busy. We did some yoga to help us remember that exercise helps keep us healthy. We baked biscuits and made faces with different emotions on using sweet treats! We went in the sensory room to help us to relax and learn ways that…

9G have been fantastic day being Romans today. In the morning we learnt all about Roman Mosaics, who had them and what they looked like. We then made our own Roman Mosaics using glue and different coloured seeds. In the afternoon we then learnt all about Roman soldiers, what life was like for them…

Today for Chorley in Bloom, we headed down to Astley Park and picked up litter. To our surprise there wasn’t that much to be collected. 
 

The sun was out and it was gorgeous to be outside. We admired the snowdrops school pupils from Astley Park planted several years…

Today Chorley Schools Sports Partnership came to work with Oak class.
 

We warmed up our bodies playing a game and then we got busy with the bikes. We did some walking with our bikes and then we got to ride them! We learnt that we must wear helmets on our bikes to keep us…

Today, as part of Children's Mental Health we, we decided to go to the park and release some endorphins. We had lots of fun and all came away happy, laughing and feeling so much better. Some of us weren't too keen on the walk there but once there everybody has lots of fun. Even Mrs Devlin braved…

Today Willow Class navigated their way to Devonshire Recreational Ground Park practicing using directional language and spotting any features of towns which we had learnt about in our Understanding of the World lessons. Willow Class staff were very impressed with the children’s road safety skills…

Last week Oak Class enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year.

We learnt that there are different animals to celebrate the different years and this year, is the year of the Rat. We found out that dragons are used in the parades and do lots of dancing. Miss Woods even told us what animal we…