Blog by Tag: community access

What a busy first term of year 11. We have become budding business owners with our own company E.A.T Eleven A Team providing a tuck shop and bacon butty delivery service for the staff of school, what a challenge this has been but 11A have risen to the challenge as always.

We have also been…

Our wonderful willow class children have been learning all about autumn over the last few weeks. They have created some beautiful pieces of art using paints and other media and explored our autumn tough tray, including leaves, sticks and insects! We listened to autumn stories including don’t hog…

Our ‘new’ food this week was passion fruit. Everyone that tried it liked it, with some saying it was sweet and a few saying it was sour. On Wednesday the students were learning more on the topic Witches and Wizards. We drew our own wizards, discussed names and different spells they could…

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…