16 Sep

11R Day 4 Residential - Anderton Centre September 2021

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…

15 Sep

11R - Water World - Day 3 Anderton Residential - Sept 2021

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…

14 Sep

11R Residential - Anderton Centre Day 2 September 2021

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…

10 Sep

Welcome Back 11R

After a long (not so hot) summer break, it was great to get together as a class again as 11R.  We welcomed our new team members Mrs Powell and Mr Connor. 
To help class settle back after the break there have been fun activities and pupils enjoyed games and time with friends who they have not seen…

16 Jul

Sneak peek at 11R prom photos

Hi all. Hope you are all enjoying your summer holidays. Mrs Linde and I have loved having a sneaky peek at your photos from prom. Miss Bamber is busy finishing the rest of the photographs, but we thought you'd love to have a look at a few.

As soon as we get all of the photos back we will email…

9 Jul

11R's Final Week

Well what a week it has been. On Wednesday we celebrated all our achievements whilst being at Astley Park School through our Graduation Assembly. Our parents loved the assembly and there were tears all round. 

It was fantastic to see everyone in their suits and dresses. They all looked so grown…

25 Jun

11R Work Hard and Play Hard

What a fantastic day we had on Thursday. The morning started off with us identifying what we would like to buy for our dinner from ASDA. 

We then costed up prices as a meal deal and worked out how much money we could save if we pooled our money together. 

We walked to ASDA and split up into…

18 Jun

11R Smash their Maths Exams and Celebrate

Wow! What a week. 11R have worked their socks off over the last year in Maths and as a result have achieved the accreditation they deserve. 

As a reward we went to Haigh Hall Country Park. We went for a walk in the woods and used the wooded dens. We thoroughly enjoyed playing on the park and…

15 Jun

11R Howzat!

As part of our preparation for Sports Week, 11R have been trying out different sporting activities in the sun.

This week was cricket! and we all enjoyed taking part either fielding, bowling or batting (or all three).

We have some fantastic cricketers in our class, they really did bowl us…

28 May

Newman Newbies

We went on the bus to Cardinal Newman College. When we got there we met two teachers and they showed us the classroom. We were given Virtual Reality headsets and went on a virtual tour of the college. We also looked at different animals and virtual scenes from around the planet.

We went to the…

21 May

11R - Dig Deeper into Emotions

11R explore their inner critic and inner coach as well as expected and unexpected behaviours. We were given different phrases such as, 'I can do this' - 'I'm not good enough' and we had to decide whether they were positive and linked to our inner coach or negative and linked to our inner…

18 May

11R Boot Camp Fun!

11R took a break from training their brains, to train their bodies today, with a super tough Boot Camp!

Firstly we made sure we completed a dynamic warm up, then the real work began. In pairs we completed a session on the battle rope, ladder runs, mini hurdles and a rugby passing drill,…