Blog by Tag: 2024-2025

Rowan Class have been exploring camping this week, as part of our Holiday topic.

We enjoyed a lovely sensory story - stirring soup, building campfires, and toasting marshmallows!

Everyone then made their very own campfire!

Well done Rowan Class!

Another lovely week to finish our farm topic. We focused on the rhyme ‘5 little ducks’ by splashing the ducks in water, made ducks from paper plates and enjoyed listening to the rhyme. 

We enjoyed washing the animals, chopping up the vegetables, posting the pigs and feeding the…

This half term Willow Class have been learning about our topic “We’re All Going on a Summer Holiday”.

We started off learning all about postcards, what they are, how they are designed, and when they are used.

From here the children started to write their own postcards about fun activities we…

On Wednesday afternoon, 11A were invited to Chorley Train Station to meet Sarah Morgan who is the Community and Sustainability Manager for Northern Rail. Earlier in the year, 11A were asked to create a piece of artwork to be displayed at Chorley Train Station that would showcase some of the…

11A had a brilliant time on Tuesday this week. We were only a very small group as 5 young people were off on transition days to college. We arrived and headed straight over to the splash park where the lady was waiting for us to open up. The weather was dry (not the warmest) which was all we could…

On Monday in maths we worked really hard and did some great problem solving. We also had a look at picture news and talked about the pros and cons of self driving taxis. Not many of us were keen on the idea of getting into a taxi without a driver. In the afternoon we practiced more computer skills…

What a great week in 8P, this week!!
 

What a lovely start to the week, hearing about all of our friends and staff members busy weekends. Looking through the photos and seeing what everyone has been up to. The learners have explained to their friends what they have been up to, and who with.…

This week we have continued out Horrible Histories topic. Some of us visited the library to see what information we could find about the Iron Age. We looked at the different foods they ate, the clothes they wore and what sort of houses they lived in. It was very different to the way we live now.…

This week we re-visited one of our favourite trips ‘Boulder UK’ 

We were re-united with our instructors Megan and Josh and it was amazing how much of the rules we had remembered. In no time at all we were off up the walls, we all had a great time and we spent much of the day reminiscing our…

WOW, what a busy week this week has been…

Our learners have done some great work this week, and have tried their best in all they have done! 
We have spoken about our weekend news, looking at what each of our friends and staff have been up to over the weekend. Followed by picture news.
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Day three at Bendrigg

Well, it’s our last day of making amazing memories at Bendrigg and what a fantastic time we have had. 

Another yummy breakfast of cereal, fruit, toast, croissants and pancakes.

For a lot of our Year 7s it’s been their first time away from people they…

As we have been doing all our couch to 5k training and finding some days really difficult we thought we could all do with a reminder and some inspiration to keep our training going.

Today we learnt about what is Cancer, how this affects peoples lives and then we watched a video all about…