Blog by Tag: 2022-23

Willow class enjoyed a functional maths and food etc lesson, designing a smoothie recipe.

The children had to choose the ingredients they wanted, then use the price lists to work out what the quantity of each ingredient would cost.

Next children had to visit the banker to withdraw the money…

What a fantastic day we had celebrating World Book Day. We had a wonderful, busy, fun-filled day!

In Oak we had lots of wonderful characters walk through the door! We had a unicorn, sonic, dinosaurs, Mary Popins, a Cat, a Lion, a Princess, Shine, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Hulk and…

Today was the first "Just Dance" club for years 9-11 at lunchtime.  We warmed up to "Eye of the Tiger" and were very impressed with the pupils boxing moves!  We all had lots of fun dancing to a variety of songs and even found enough energy to sing along.  I think we were all ready for the 2 minute…

11R have been working hard today solving problems using division. 
 

We played games and divided our Holi rice we made from previous lessons into equal amounts. 
 

We discussed practical ways to overcome problems of sums we can’t do mentally or without counters and considered what we would…

I had the pleasure of taking our Secondary Phase 'Golden Ticket' winners on their reward visit today. 

Pupils enjoyed ten-pin bowling at the new 'Escape' venue in Chorley followed by lunch at McDonalds.

As always; it is such a pleasure to be able to lead these visits and spend some quality…

Challenge your family this spring time using the free resource from Google’s Be Internet Legends Parent Zone.

Talk to your family and learn together. Please feel free to feedback your experiences!

If you need any further support please don’t hesitate to contact…

We read the story of The Wizard of Oz. We focused on the story of the lion and learned about courage. We had a class discussion about times we need courage and what helps us get through.

some pupils identified that the lion didn’t drink a magic potion to have courage. The potion was a…

In food technology today we made savoury pancakes. 
 

Pupils researched their recipes in ICT yesterday and sent me shopping for the ingredients. They then followed their plans and instructions from yesterday to make their pancake today.

Then general consensus was they were…

Primary Phase pupils enjoyed their Spring Term 1 reward visit to Cheeky Monkeys on Wednesday 12th February 2020.

As always, it is such a pleasure to be able to lead these visits and spend some quality time with pupils. It’s wonderful to see them out of the school environment, having fun, making…

Well done everyone!

We have a full box! This is being collected on Monday 2nd March. We have done loads better this year than previous so as well as thanking you, I’d like to challenge you all...

Can we make it 2 full boxes before Easter break? 
 

That’s six weeks to get…

During our Wednesday life skills sessions we have been working towards living a better, healthier US! We alternate cooking healthy snacks and meals and a theory session. These sessions are to support our young people to become more independent around school and at home. The sessions also support…

On monday we learnt all about why we celebrate pancake Day in our assembly and even had a taste of some pancakes! 
When we got back to class we all joined Miss Woods on the carpet as we took part in an attention autism, looking at what ingredients we need in order to make a pancake. Some of us…