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Today for our final adventure we visited Kingsdale for some rock scrambling and caving at Yordas Cave. We applied the skills we had learnt on the indoor climbing wall and indoor abseiling in the real world! Once again, everyone worked together as a team to help and support each other face…

Today we completed a 5km walk for our DofE expedition. We all took it in turns to read the map and navigate the way and we had a turn being the group leader. The group leaders job was to make sure everyone stayed together, at the start of the walk, Miss Bentham gave us all a number, so when we…

Day 3, time for canoes! It was our second expedition day today which meant it was our turn to do the canoeing. 

We had a good breakfast of pancakes to get us ready and energised before heading over to the store rooms to collect the life jackets we would be wearing. We then hopped on the…

Today, after a pancake breakfast, we have had a fantastic day canoeing on Ulnswater lake. Everybody worked in their teams to travel around the lake and we enjoyed some team games that were lots of fun. Some of us were brave enough to stand up on the canoes to do head, shoulders, knees and toes and…

Today, we have had another great day at Bendrigg, we went canoeing and made our own tea on a camping stove.
We’ve had a brilliant day, and we will share all of our photos and experiences next week, during sharing our learning. We are so proud of everyone for following our trip motto “Give it a go…

Second day done! We’ve had another busy day today and everyone is ready for a good sleep tonight. 

Today we had the first day of our expedition, which meant we were doing our walk. After a big cooked breakfast we headed out in the minibus up to a place called Skelwith Bridge. From there we…

11A have had a fabulous start to the week at Bendrigg. 

When we arrived yesterday, the pupils all independently made their beds, unpacked and settled into their rooms. We then enjoyed jacket potato for lunch to fuel us up before an afternoon of archery and bike riding. A special shout out to…

10A have had a great first day at Bendrigg. When we arrived we all enjoyed a jacket potato lunch. After lunch we walked around the grounds, and our guide Holly and Claire showed us around the grounds. Holly and Claire showed us how to use the Trangia’s and we all enjoyed a hot drink with the water…

10P have a had a brilliant first day at Bendrigg! We started bright and early, getting on the coach at 10 and arriving just after 11. We had time when we arrived to find our rooms and make our beds before meeting up with everyone for lunch which everyone said was yummy!

After this we met our…

Wow another very busy, exciting 2 weeks we’ve had in Oak Class! Everyone has worked super hard with their learning, from singing and counting The Very Hungry Caterpillar body parts in maths, solving missing number sequences and matching the caterpillars food items to numbers too. 

We…

9P have had a very busy week this week, as you can see from how many photos we've taken!

On Monday, we did Maths in the morning and then PSHE and Weekend News in the afternoon. 

On Tuesday, we went swimming in the morning and then did Science and Coding in the afternoon. Two…

7P went bowling.

On Friday, all of 7P learners and staff members were lucky enough to be able to go bowling at the Escape in Chorley.

We had two teams of five and what fun everyone had. We even had a couple of “strikes” from the learners. 

We saw some amazing turn taking throughout…