11 Dec

The Secondary Phase enjoy Dick Whittington! Oh yes they did!

A huge thank you to Initiate Theatre for their fantastic performance of Dick Whittington this afternoon. Key Stage 3 and 4 Classes had a great time! 

11 Dec

11A Carol Concert at The Delta Hotel

Today was an amazing experience, we had been invited along to The Delta Hotel at Broughton to provide a Christmas sing along for the staff Christmas lunch. After lots of rehearsals and practice we were more than ready to give an amazing performance.

We arrived at the hotel and wow we delivered…

5 Dec

11A Scrambling Superstars!

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…

4 Dec

11A Canoes and Campfires!

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…

3 Dec

11A Special Forces and Climbing Confidence!

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…

22 Nov

11A Chorley in Bloom Awards Evening

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…

20 Nov

Orienteering in Queens Park with 11A

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…

19 Nov

11A Duke of Edinburgh Carousel

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,…

14 Nov

Year 11 Hopes and Dreams

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…

13 Nov

MacMillan Coffee Morning

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

12 Nov

11A plant trees

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…

6 Nov

Year 11 visit Witton Park

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,…