Blog by Tag: community access

Week 4 Cooking and Visiting the Library 

This week 7P started their “Food Technology” and “Community Access” sessions.

This year we have decided to split the class for these activities so we can give the learners a more personalised experience. 

One group visited the local…

Chorley School Sports Partnership

Annual Awards ceremony 2024

Three pupils from 11A and myself represented APS at the Annual Awards ceremony hosted by Chorley School Sports Partnership held at Chorley Town Hall. 

APS had been invited to the event having received a nomination for…

Today Year 11 visited Beacon Fell. What a lovely late summer day we chose to explore some lovely countryside.

Before we left we all had a chance to have a look online and we wrote a mind map of the things we would like to see and do whilst at the park. 
 

As we began our walk we began to…

On Tuesday we finished our pictures on the green screen to make us look like we were under the sea. We all had great fun taking the pictures of ourselves and adding them to the backgrounds.

During the afternoon we had another transition and got to know our new friends for year 7. We had fun…

On Tuesday, 8A went on their end of year trip. We walked into Chorley and made our way to Escape Entertainment where the staff were waiting for us. 

When we went in we got ourselves settled and then started playing Crazy Golf. Wow, what amazing aim they all had and we even had a few holes in…

Another fun sunny week in Willow class.

Some of us enjoyed swimming lesson on Monday morning whilst some of us learned about why and how things float, we did an experiment using cubes.

Monday afternoon we finalised our designs for the making our boats ready for making  at sharing our…

On Thursday 10A took part in a treasure hunt around the beautiful village of Whalley, we had to work as a team to  read and solve clues. We had to listen really well as the clues were really difficult, we had to use our numeracy skills, and our reading skills to decipher the codes to find the next…

Monday saw the start off sports week.

Willow class started the week off with a yoga class, we practiced our balancing and learned some new stretches.

Willow class then learned more about feels and different feelings that we feel when we are in the yellow zone, willow class came up with…

Another fun day at The Anderton Centre. This week we took to the water to learn paddle boarding. We firstly had to collect our water safe clothing this included a wet suit, waterproof jacket, life jacket and helmet.

We listened to our instructor Robin who gave us our safety information and our…

On Friday we visited The Anderton Centre, we were introduced to our group leader Robin. To familiarise ourselves with the centre we began the day with some team games, we had great fun and used some great listening to our team mates who were giving us the instructions and giving each other some…

Welcome back 9A, how fast has this year gone? We are in our final term of Year 9! We’ve had a very busy year, and have lots planned for a busy last term. 
This week in maths we are looking at division, the learners used whiteboards and multilink to find ways of splitting numbers equally. 
In My…

As part of our ongoing learning about independence and independent living we have been working on our social eating skills, practicing skills such as setting the table, serving each others lunches, eating together as a group and socialising with our friends.

To extend this we had a visit to…