Blog by Tag: 11AClass

Last night we were invited to an awards evening with Chorley in Bloom to celebrate ours and others amazing contributions to the community volunteer group.

We were honoured to be presented with a Certification of Appreciation for our amazing continual contribution to the group. We also received…

Yesterday 11A visited Queens Park, each group was given a map of the park with the markers to find. We looked at the map and used locations around us to help us navigate where in the park we were, we used things like the pond, buildings and structures to help us understand where we were and where…

Before our trip to Bendrigg year 11 have enjoyed a Duke of Edinburgh Carousel morning. 

Our first visitor was Mrs Jones. Mrs Jones demonstrated some basic first aid skills that we might need whilst we are out and about in the countryside. We got to have a practice on things like broken bones,…

Todays Picture News we listened to a story about Adriana Brownlee who at the age of 23 was the youngest person to climb Mount Shishapangma , Adriana dreamed of being the youngest female climber to climb the 14 tallest mountains and she acheived this on the 9th Oct. 
Adrianna inspired us today to…

Thank you so much to everyone for your contribution to our Coffee Morning we raised an amazing £405.30

Back in February year 11 began an environmental investigation into the schools CO2 footprint.

We went around each member of staff in school and asked how they travelled to school and back each day and where they came from. We then worked out what mileage they travelled and what each persons…

Today we visited Witton Park to go on an orienteering course.  We divided into pairs and each had a map. We helped each other by taking turns to lead the group and give instructions and directions to the team. We had good fun, getting a little bit lost, but we enjoyed exploring the woodlands,…

Today in Year 11 we have been looking at a very relevant news story, the election in the USA.

We discussed who the presidential candidates were and we looked at their policies. We then had a discussion about who we thought we would vote for. After discussing their manifesto we then voted. It…

What a busy first term of year 11. We have become budding business owners with our own company E.A.T Eleven A Team providing a tuck shop and bacon butty delivery service for the staff of school, what a challenge this has been but 11A have risen to the challenge as always.

We have also been…

Our first staff tuck shop was a resounding success!

As part of our enterprise we have been learning about starting and running a small business! We’ve talked about all of the different roles involved- purchasing, advertising, finances etc.

Our tuck shop is open every Wednesday afternoon…

Whilst writing his invitations for the MacMillan Coffee Morning Teddy asked if he could send one to The King, Mrs Banks thought this was a great idea and so Teddy began to design an invitation specifically for The King. Teddy even wrote his own envelope addressed to The King, Buckingham…

As part of our new school year we are embarking on our Young Enterprise experience. 
As part of this we have had to create a company, this involved a board meeting where we discussed job roles, we then had to decide what roles we would like to apply for and have a small interview to say how we…