24 Mar

10A - Spring 2 Week 5 - W/B 24.03.25

On Monday Lee was in again and this week she talked about employability. She showed some jobs on the whiteboard and asked if they were fake jobs or real jobs. There were some very funny jobs that people get paid for.  The pupils did a questionaire about their School and Home Habits and why these…

19 Mar

10A - Spring 2 Week 4 - W/B 17.03.25

This half term is going so quickly, the learners have been really busy with Asdan work and their other curriculum lessons. 
This week started off with another visit from Lee from DWP, this week she talked about the skills the learners needed for their next steps. She asked the learners to work in…

3 Mar

10A - Spring 2 Week 2 - W/B 03.03.25

It’s Careers week In KS4! The learners have lots to look forward to and lots of different people coming into speak to them about their next steps. 

On Monday, a lady from Runshaw College visited our school to provide us with  information about the college experience. She spoke in detail…

27 Jan

10A - Spring 1 Week 4 - W/B 27.01.25

This week in maths we have continued with working on the four operations, focusing on division Some of us have learnt what sharing is, how to use physical resources to help us share and also how to use factors to divide large numbers by 2-digit numbers! 

In Picture News on Monday, the question…

25 Nov

10A Autumn 2 Week 4 & 5 - W/B 18.11.24 & 25.11.24

Monday 18th - Today we had our first look at picture news. We had a look at an ancient city that has been discovered in the jungle in Mexico. We all found it really interesting, we then went on to have a look at other big discoveries through history and how they impacted the world. In the…

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…

12 Nov

10A Autumn 2 Week 3 - W/B 11.11.24

On Monday morning we learnt about Remembrance Day. We talked about why we commemorate Remembrance Day and what happens on each year on the 11th November. We then went down to the cage at 11 o'clock to listen to Mrs Chaloner playing the Last Post on her trumpet. The whole class were very…

8 Nov

10A Autumn 2 Week 2 - W/B 08.11.24

This week saw some of us continuing with addition and subtraction in maths, looking at how to break down word problems so solve the questions. Some of us worked on multiplication and division, using written methods to find the answers.

In English, we have been writing letters to local garden…

31 Oct

10A Autumn 2 Week 1 - W/B 28.10.24

Welcome back to Autumn 2 - this will be a long term with lots of exciting things happening along the way, leading up to Christmas! As I forgot to publish the blog at the end of last term, some of the photos are of our last week in term 1 - apologies! 

The week started off with us making some…

9 Oct

10A Week 6 - W/B 07.10.24

This week in English, we thought of a place we would like to visit on holiday and created a word bank to describe it. We then used these words to tell our families about our holiday on a postcard. We had to be sure to not write too much, as postcards aren't very big, but I think we all got across…

16 Sep

10A Week 3 - W/B 16.09.24

Last week, we decided in our English lessons that we would write a letter to Joe Wicks to tell him all about our topic Healthy Living and to ask him if he has any tips for us, so today we thought about what we wanted to tell him and what questions we had for him. Hopefully we will get a reply! In…

13 Sep

YR11 Young Enterprise

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…