Blog by Tag: The World About Me

VE Day in 7P

On Thursday morning the learners listened to a story about VE Day and watched a video about it. The class watched a news report that was 80 years old celebrating the end of the Second World War. The video also showed a picture of a lady who was 15 years old at the time and…

Following on from last week’s session bullying, today we have been looking at “banter” what is it?, Is it socially acceptable? When is “banter” not acceptable?

We discussed as a group what experiences we have of “banter” who do we have “banter” with. We then looked at different scenarios and we…

Year 11 were visited by Crystal and Julie to tell us all about our annual health check and what we might expect when we go. Firstly they talked to us about what a health check is, who would be there, and that we are ok to say if we don’t understand something that a nurse or doctor asks us or tells…

BOSCH Workplace Visit

Last week 6 of our key stage 4 children went to visit the BOSCH facilities in Liverpool at their offices in The Plaza in central Liverpool. All the young people were introduced to lots of people who work there. BOSCH have lots of different departments in the…

Todays Picture News was all about the coalition movement to help with the war in the Ukraine.

We looked at photographs of our Prime Minister Keir Starmer meeting with President Zelenskyy and we talked about how all 20 countries are coming together to help with the war and hopefully bring…

Today we learnt all about each other’s families and houses that we live in. We took turns to talk about our houses and who lives in them. We all enjoyed learning about each other’s families and answering questions about our families. 
Well done Sycamore! 

This weeks picture News “Girls can have short hair get over it” 

This week we watched a news video about girls being asked to leave a girls football match because they were accused of being boys because they had short hair. They have started a campaign with the slogan “Girls can have short hair…

Welcome back!

7A have settled back into school life exceptionally well after the holidays.

On Monday, they got back into their swimming lessons at Hindley swimming pool. 

In music, in the afternoon, Miss Troughton introduced us to a new song, ‘Three little birds’ by Bob Marley.…

In picture News today we were discussing climate change, we looked at a news reel where they were interviewing a lady from the government about what climate change means and how we can help.

We looked at what the impact of climate change is on the weather around the world, watching videos and…

Willow have had a great first week back and have been super busy!! The learner’s really enjoy our sensory story of ‘The Hungry Catepillar’ pretending to be caterpillar’s then to transform into butterflies. They have completed really good maths work and shown good engagement and their work has…

On Tuesday we were very excited to go on a visit to Lancaster Castle which concludes our learning of the Pendle Witch trials.

We were very lucky to have a guided tour of the castle, this included the men’s prison and the women’s prison. We had a look inside some of the cells and the guide…

This week in maths we have continued with working on the four operations, focusing on division Some of us have learnt what sharing is, how to use physical resources to help us share and also how to use factors to divide large numbers by 2-digit numbers! 

In Picture News on Monday, the question…