Blog by Tag: Personal Social Development and Life Skills

This term our theme is “Our Planet”. In our My Community lessons we have been thinking about our local environment and some of us have been out in the local community litter picking. We have been shocked at the amount of litter we have found over the past few weeks in Chorley Town Centre and at…

10R have had a tricky week so we decided that Friday would be a day of wellbeing.

We started the day with nurture and Mrs Cobham shared a silent black and white film of Croston in Lancashire that showed Coffee Day from a long time ago. We enjoyed looking at what the people were wearing and the…

What an exciting time we had at Boulder UK this week. 
We put on our special climbing shoes and listened to the safety rules. 
We were put into two groups with Keith and Sadie as our leaders.

Our first job was to see if we could stand on the climbing holds safely.

We all managed this…

Happy New Year everyone!

8A have had a fantastic start to the new year. We thought you might like to know all about our new theme, "Our Planet" and what we will be learning about this term. 

My Communication

In My Communication this half term, Mrs Crouch will be helping us to write some…

Wow we have had another fun filled day in 8A! This morning we were visited by some alpacas and then we enjoyed a festive games afternoon. We played a snowman beetle run, Christmas bingo, Christmas charades and pin the nose on Rudolph. We all took turns and had lots of fun. 

Tomorrow we have…

Friendship Fun in 10G 

Today we focused on one of our school values - Kindness.

At breaktime Miss Linde had her kindness spotters out and was looking for those learners in 10G that are kind to their friends by playing with them, including them and having fun with them. 

We played lots of…

 

What a lovely day to go down to the park. Alex and Mason had the big responsibility of getting us all to Astley Park and back safely.  They took it in turned to stop at the curb, look for traffic and then make the big desion if it was safe to cross the road. Well done, you got us all to the…

As a school community we have been examining our whole school values and deciding which we feel are most important to us. 
All stakeholders have been involved with the learners at the heart of the process.

In 10G we explored what values mean and delved deeper into understanding five values. We…

Today 11G have been learning all about what jeans for genes day is, why we celebrate it and we learnt some facts another different genetic conditions. We learnt that the money we contributed went to help support children and families with different genetic conditions. We all designed our…

The power boat was ace!!! - the students got a chance to go really fast up and down the reservoir last night, before making their lunches in readiness for the trek up to the Pike today. The students showed incredible team work to ensure that one of our number that uses a wheelchair was able to…

We were worried that the weather was going to be wet but the sun shone and the students had a fantastic time, showing their head for heights. It was great to see them putting mind over matter as they scaled the tree climb and held their nerve balancing on the crate stack. After a lovely lunch, we…

What a fantastic first day!! We arrived at the Anderton Centre at 1pm, checked in and most importantly, made up our own beds. It was great to see the students helping each other with this. Next we had a walk around the centre so we have a good idea as to where everything is; we met our visit…