Blog Author: Mrs Banks

Picture News is our weekly lesson where we look at current news items. This week we have been learning about the new Pope.
We looked at how the Pope was I tasted and how the Cardinals went into conclave to vote, we learnt about the different coloured smoke and that the smoke was created when the…

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…

Today we looked at bullying in PSHE, what is bullying, what does it look like and how we can deal with the issues raised. 
 

The class came up with their own ideas and explanations to what they thought about bullying as well as doing active listening to others in the group.  Mrs Fisher then…

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…

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…

What a busy, inspirational week. We have had many visitors from various organisations such as Colleges ,Department of work and pensions, Tellent, Bosch and previous pupils who gave us all their knowledge, experience and what an inspirational experience has been.

It has helped us to think about…

What a busy, inspirational week. We have had many visitors from various organisations such as Colleges ,Department of work and pensions, Tellent, Bosch and previous pupils who gave us all their knowledge, experience and what an inspirational experience has been.

It has helped us to think about…

Just wanted to share this wonderful project we have been working on.

Chorley in Bloom asked for the pupils to design some artwork to advertise Chorley to the public.

All pupils have spent so much time choosing which buildings they would like to draw and then we took photos, we brought them…

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…

As part of our preparation for leaving school and starting college, we were very lucky to be invited to visit St Michael’s high school for the day. We were greeted by Aubrey the head girl and Ewan the head boy who then took us on a tour of their school, they showed us around the classrooms and…