Blog by Tag: Community Links

Morrisons in Chorley kindly donated a £75 voucher for us to use in store on delicious healthy food and treats for our Holiday Club. We bought lots of lovely fruit, together with natural yoghurt and fruit juices so the children could make their own tasty but very healthy smoothies. We also bought…

Three of our pupils have done an amazing job fundraising for Derian House this term. 
We looked at Derian House and all the amazing work they do while completing our community action ASDAN unit. We learned about all the funds that are needed to keep it running and how a lot of families really…

Sycamore had a really exciting visit to Asda. Travelling by bus through Chorley we saw lot of exciting things such as a fire engine, animals and a dustbin wagon! 
We all walked really nicely and followed our instructions, we all had 25p to spend and we had a lovely time choosing our favourite…

Today 10R went out and about. We walked to the bus stop on Southport Road together and waited for the 109 bus  The class were really polite to the driver when asking for the tickets to Tesco. 
Once at Tesco two pupils went with Mrs Tolan to buy stamps. The remainder of the class walked over to…

We had a very special visitor on Friday! Amy Troner attended school as a Jewish faith leader and delivered multiple engaging workshops for our pupils. Amy was accompanied by Mr. Maher (school governor) for the morning sessions. Amy shared her main beliefs and explained all about Jewish festivals,…

This morning 10R walked to town to visit Ebb and Flo to get our World Book Day books. We all listened to the different book introductions and chose a book that sounded the best. 

The whole class then exchanged their tokens for their chosen book independently. 

We then walked to Massa’s to…

Chestnut Class had a lovely virtual visit from Mrs Parekh and we learned all about her Hindu Faith. She chatted to us about her favourite Hindu festival - Holi and the Celebration of Colour and we talked about our class learning of Diwali and the Festival of Light and what we had explored in…

What a great couple of days we’ve had this week in our Holiday Heroes club!
 

On Tuesday, all our younger children went on a trip to a play centre - everyone had a great time climbing up and sliding down the play frame as well as exploring the toys, vehicles and role play. Then everyone sat…

10R have enjoyed sorting through our donations and then Sam and Callum lead us safely to the charity shop. 
 

Inside the shop pupils were able to ask a member of stafff they worked at the shop, as she had no uniform on. This was a good practical safer stranger exercise. When we had established…

Today 10R did posters for our community action for Derian House in the local community to give to the charity shop so they can give nice things to the children to use.

The above blog information was written by 2 of our pupils. Well done team. 
 

On Monday 24th January 10R will be collecting…

We had great fun on our first visit to Chorley in Bloom.  
After a short ride on the school mini bus we arrived at the community garden. We meet two lovely ladies that are going to help us.  Each one of us got a little yellow bag, which had seeds for us to look at . Gill and Iris told us…

We decided at the end of November- that it would be a good thing to help others and do a ‘Reverse Advent’ collecting food and toiletries to donate to our local foodbank.

So each day in December- we collected items-we got all of the other classes and Governors  involved in our project and…