Blog by Tag: KS4

This week started with Picture News again. This week we had to think answer the question 'Should you be allowed to build homes anywhere?'. We talked about what it would be like if people started to build houses in the middle of the track or in the middle of Astley Park. We also thought about what…

We’ve had another busy week in 10P!

On Monday most of us went to Asda in the morning to do some shopping for the week. Once we had bought all we needed we went to the cafe to buy ourselves some breakfast. This term we are starting some work experience placements so on Monday morning…

Happy New Year and welcome back from 10P!

We’ve had a busy first week, jumping straight into things on Monday morning with our visit to ASDA. We firstwent around the shop, getting things for breakfast and for our food tech lesson the following day before heading to the cafe to enjoy some…

Today was the day we said goodbye to Bendrigg. After an exciting and action packed week we were all ready to head home to our beds. We got up nice and early for breakfast and then did a final sweep of our rooms to make sure we had absolutely everything. It was nearly time to get on the bus but…

It was our last day at Bendrigg today and what a busy day we’ve had! We started off the morning with another big breakfast before heading down to the sports hall where we all got a chance to go on the swing. Everyone got to choose their own song and our instructors Mel and Jenny swung us…

Today we completed a 5km walk for our DofE expedition. We all took it in turns to read the map and navigate the way and we had a turn being the group leader. The group leaders job was to make sure everyone stayed together, at the start of the walk, Miss Bentham gave us all a number, so when we…

Day 3, time for canoes! It was our second expedition day today which meant it was our turn to do the canoeing. 

We had a good breakfast of pancakes to get us ready and energised before heading over to the store rooms to collect the life jackets we would be wearing. We then hopped on the…

Today, we have had another great day at Bendrigg, we went canoeing and made our own tea on a camping stove.
We’ve had a brilliant day, and we will share all of our photos and experiences next week, during sharing our learning. We are so proud of everyone for following our trip motto “Give it a go…

Second day done! We’ve had another busy day today and everyone is ready for a good sleep tonight. 

Today we had the first day of our expedition, which meant we were doing our walk. After a big cooked breakfast we headed out in the minibus up to a place called Skelwith Bridge. From there we…

10P have a had a brilliant first day at Bendrigg! We started bright and early, getting on the coach at 10 and arriving just after 11. We had time when we arrived to find our rooms and make our beds before meeting up with everyone for lunch which everyone said was yummy!

After this we met our…

On Monday we started off our week the way we always do, with our weekend news. It’s always lovely to hear about what our learners have got up to at the weekend. In the afternoon we went to ASDA, where we did our shopping before having a bit to eat in the café.

We had our DofE carousel on…

Before we can go and take part in our expedition at Bendrigg, we've had to complete some training for our Duke of Edinburgh award.

Our first visitor in the morning was Mrs Fisher, who talked about personal hygiene and we discussed some of the things that we would need to take with us on our…